This is a magnificent and terrifying tale in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy-and his dog-must lead the battle.Įarly in the Pandemic, King asked himself: “What could you write that would make you happy?” What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.

Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.Ĭharlie starts doing jobs for Mr. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Charlie learned how to take care of himself-and his dad. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink.

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher-for that world or ours.Ĭharlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student.

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