Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie the house, a massive amount of gold, a cassette tape telling a story that is impossible to believe, and a responsibility far too massive for a boy to shoulder.īecause within the shed is a portal to another world-one whose denizens are in peril and whose monstrous leaders may destroy their own world, and ours. In the backyard is a locked shed from which strange sounds emerge, as if some creature is trying to escape. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. 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 deep into the 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 their world or ours.Ĭharlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student.

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