For Edgar’s creations are not just paintings, but portals for the ghosts of Elizabeth’s past…and their power cannot be controlled… About The Author And as he heals, he paints-feverishly, compulsively, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Renting a house on Duma Key-a stunningly beautiful and eerily undeveloped splinter off the Florida coast-Edgar slowly emerges from his prison of pain to bond with Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick, elderly woman whose roots are tangled deep in this place. Master storyteller Stephen King’s classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller of what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached.Īfter a terrible construction site accident severs Edgar Freemantle’s right arm, scrambles his mind, and implodes his marriage, the wealthy Minnesota builder faces the ordeal of rehabilitation, all alone and full of rage.

Winner of the 2009 Audie Award for Fiction

The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural-Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating. Once he meets Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman with roots tangled deep in Duma Key, Edgar begins to paint, sometimes feverishly many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. The sun settling into the Gulf of Mexico calls out to him, and Edgar draws. You need hedges.hedges against the night.'Įdgar leaves for Duma Key, an eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. His psychologist suggests a new life distant from the Twin Cities, along with something else: When his marriage suddenly ends, Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived his injuries. A horizon line, maybe.īut also a slot for blackness to pour through.Ī terrible accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page.

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