![]() Insomnia not only has the horror and fantasy elements typically found in a Stephen King novel, but it also connects to other stories in King's macroverse, mostly the Dark Tower series, with Ralph and his friend Lois learning about the existence of the Crimson King and Ralph having a vision of the Dark Tower. As a result, Ralph also starts to see people’s auras and diminutive white-coated beings he refers to as “little bald doctors”, and he eventually realizes that these aren’t hallucinations, leading him to a conflict between the forces of the Purpose and the Random. Like many other Stephen King stories, Insomnia is set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, and it tells the story of Ralph Roberts, a retired widower who begins to suffer from sleep maintenance insomnia, which makes him wake up earlier each night until he can barely sleep for a full hour each night. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.Insomnia is a horror fantasy novel published in 1994. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Returning to the same Maine town where It took place, a town that has haunted Stephen King for decades, Insomnia blends King’s trademark bone-chilling realism with supernatural terror to create yet another masterpiece of suspense. ![]() Now Ralph is part of it…and lack of sleep is the least of his worries. The dying has been going on in Derry for a long, long time. There’s a definite mean streak running through this small New England city underneath its ordinary surface awesome and terrifying forces are at work. He begins to suspect that these visions are something more than hallucinations brought on by lack of sleep. He sees colored ribbons streaming from people’s heads, two strange little men wandering around town after dark, and more. ![]() During his late night walks, he observes some strange things going on in Derry, Maine. Each night he wakes up a bit earlier, until he’s barely sleeping at all. ![]() Since his wife died, Ralph Roberts has been having trouble sleeping. Marvelous-that is, full of marvels” ( Booklist). A #1 national bestseller-“A yarn so packed with suspense, romance, literary reference, fascinating miscellaneous knowledge, and heart that only Stephen King could have written it.
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