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S t e p h e n

KING

DREAMCATCHER

Hodder & Stoughton

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Theodore Roethke, used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.

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McElligots Pool by Dr. SEUSS™. Copyright by Dr. Seuss Enterprises L.P. 1947, renewed 1975, reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

"I Am The Walrus" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney 1967 Sony/ATV Times, LLC. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music

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First published in Great Britain in 2001 by Hodder and Stoughton

A division of Hodder Headline

The right of Stephen King to be identified as the Author

of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the

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All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance

to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

King, Stephen, 1947-

Dreamcatcher

1. Horror tales

I. Title

813.5'4 [F]

Hardcover edition ISBN 0 340 77071 6

Trade paperback edition ISBN 0 340 79235 3

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This is for Susan Moldow and Nan Graham

First, the News

From the East Oregonian, June 25, 1947

FIRE CONTROL OFFICER SPOTS 'FLYING SAUCERS'

Kenneth Arnold Reports 9 Disc-Shaped Objects

'Shiny, Silvery, Moved Incredibly Fast'

From the Roswell Daily Record, July 8th, 1947

AIR FORCE CAPTURES 'FLYING SAUCER'

ON RANCH IN ROSWELL REGION

Intelligence Officers Recover Crashed Disc

From the Roswell Daily Record, July 9th, 1947

AIR FORCE DECLARES 'SAUCER'

WEATHER BALLOON

From the Chicago Daily Tribune, August 1st, 1947

USAF SAYS 'CANNOT EXPLAIN' ARNOLD SIGHTING

850 Additional Sightings Since Original Report

From the Roswell Daily Record, October 19th, 1947

SO-CALLED 'SPACE WHEAT' A HOAX,

ANGRY FARMER DECLARES

Andrew Hoxon Denies 'Saucer Connection'

Red-Tinged Wheat 'Nothing But A Prank,' He Insists

From the Courier Journal (Ky), January 8th, 1948

AIR FORCE CAPTAIN KILLED CHASING UFO

Mantell's Final Transmission:

'Metallic, Tremendous In Size'

Air Force Mum

From the Brazilian Nacional, March 12th, 1957

STRANGE RINGED CRAFT CRASHES IN MATO GROSSO!

2 WOMEN MENACED NEAR PONTO PORAN!

'We Heard Squealing Sounds From Within,' They Declare

From the Brazilian Nacional, March 12th, 1957

MATO GRASSO HORROR!

Reports of Gray Men with Huge Black Eyes

Scientists Scoff! Reports Persist!

VILLAGES IN TERROR!

From the Oklahoman, May 12th, 1965

STATE POLICEMAN FIRES AT UFO

Claims Saucer Was 40 Feet Above Highway 9

Tinker AFB Radar Confirms Sightings

From the Oklahoman, June 2nd, 1965

'ALIEN GROWTH'A HOAX,

FARM BUREAU REP DECLARES

'Red Weeds' Said To Be Work Of Spray-Gun, Teenagers

From the Portland (Me.) Press-Herald, September 14th, 1965

NEW HAMPSHIRE UFO SIGHTINGS MOUNT

Most Sightings in Exeter Area

Some Residents Express Fear of Alien Invasion

From the Manchester Union-Leader (N.H.), September 19th, 1965

ENORMOUS OBJECT SIGHTED NEAR EXETER

WAS OPTICAL ILLUSION

Air Force Investigators Refute State Police Sighting

Officer Cleland Adamant: 'I Know What I Saw'

From the Manchester Union-Leader (N.H.), September 30th, 1965

FOOD POISONING EPIDEMIC IN PLAISTOW

STILL UNEXPLAINED

Over 300 Affected, Most Recovering

FDA Officer Says May Have Been Contaminated Wells

From the Michigan Journal, October 9th, 1965

GERALD FORD CALLS FOR UFO INVESTIGATION

Republican House Leader Says 'Michigan Lights'

May Be Extraterrestrial In Origin

From the Los Angeles Times, November 19th, 1978

CALTECH SCIENTISTS REPORT SIGHTING HUGE

DISC-SHAPED OBJECT IN MOJAVE

Tickman: 'Was Surrounded by Small Bright Lights'

Morales: 'Saw Red Growth Like Angel Hair'

From the Los Angeles Times, November 24th, 1978

STATE POLICE, USAF INVESTIGATORS FIND NO

'ANGEL HAIR' AT MOJAVE SITE

Tickman and Morales Take, Pass, Lie Tests

Possibility of Hoax Discounted

From the New York Times, August 16th, 1980

'ALIEN ABDUCTEES' REMAIN CONVINCED

Psychologists Question Drawings Of So-Called 'Gray Men'

From the Wall Street Journal, February 9th, 1985

CARL SAGAN: 'NO, WE ARE NOT ALONE'

Prominent Scientist Reaffirms Belief In ETs

Says, 'Odds Of Intelligent Life Are Enormous'

From the Phoenix Sun, March 14th, 1997

HUGE UFO SIGHTED NEAR PRESCOTT

DOZENS DESCRIBE 'BOOMERANG-SHAPED' OBJECT

Switchboard At Luke AFB Deluged With Reports

From the Phoenix Sun, March 20th, 1997

'PHOENIX LIGHTS' REMAIN UNEXPLAINED

Photos Not Doctored, Expert Says

Air Force Investigators Mum

From the Paulden Weekley, (Ariz.), April 9th, 1997

FOOD POISONING OUTBREAK UNEXPLAINED

REPORTS OF 'RED GRASS' DISCOUNTED AS HOAX

From the Derry Daily News (Me.), May 15th, 2000

MYSTERY LIGHTS ONCE AGAIN REPORTED

IN JEFFERSON TRACT

Kineo Town Manager: 'I Don't Know What They

Are, But They Keep Coming Back'

SSDD

It became their motto, and Jonesy couldn't for the life of him remember which of them started

saying it first. Payback's a bitch, that was his. Fuck me Freddy and half a dozen even more

colorful obscenities originated with Beaver. Henry was the one who taught them to say What

goes around comes around, it was the kind of Zen shit Henry liked, even when they were kids.

SSDD, though; what about SSDD? Whose brainstorm had that been?

Didn't matter. What mattered was that they believed the first half of it when they were a

quartet and all of it when they were five and then the second half of it when they were a quartet

again.

When it was just the four of them again, the days got darker. There were more fuck-me-

Freddy days. They knew it, but not why. They knew something was wrong with them —

different, at least — but not what. They knew they were caught, but not exactly how. And all this

long before the lights in the sky. Before McCarthy and Becky Shue.

SSDD: Sometimes it's just what you say. And sometimes you believe in nothing but the

darkness. And then how do you go along?

1988: Even Beaver Gets the Blues

To say that Beaver's marriage didn't work would be like saying that the launch of the Challenger

space shuttle went a little bit wrong. Joe 'Beaver' Clarendon and Laurie Sue Kenopensky make it

through eight months and then kapow, there goes my baby, somebody help me pick up the fuckin

pieces.

The Beav is basically a happy guy, any of his hang-out buddies would tell you that, but this is

his dark time. He doesn't see any of his old friends (the ones he thinks of as his real friends)

except for the one week in November when they are together every year, and last November he

and Laurie Sue had still been hanging on. By a thread, granted, but still hanging on. Now he

spends a lot of his time — too much, he knows — in the bars of Portland's Old Port district, The

Porthole and The Seaman's Club and The Free Street Pub. He is drinking too much and smoking

too much of the old rope-a-dope and come most mornings he doesn't like to look at himself in

the bathroom mirror; his red-rimmed eyes skitter away from his reflection and he thinks I ought

to quit the clubs. Pretty soon I'm gonna have a problem the way Pete's got one. Jesus-Christ-

bananas.

Quit the clubs, quit the partying, good fuckin idea, and then he's back again, kiss my bender

and how ya doin. This Thursday it's the Free Street, and damned if there isn't a beer in his hand, a

joint in his pocket, and some old instrumental, sounds a little bit like The Ventures, pouring from

the juke. He can't quite remember the name of this one, which was popular before his time. Still,

he knows it; he listens a lot to the Portland oldies station since he got divorced. Oldies are

soothing. A lot of the new stuff. . . Laurie Sue knew and liked a lot of it, but Beaver doesn't get

it.

The Free Street is mostly empty, maybe half a dozen guys at the bar and another half a dozen

shooting eightball in the back, Beaver and three of his hang-out buddies in one of the booths,

drinking draft Millers and cutting a greasy deck of cards to see who pays for each round. What is

that instrumental with all the burbling guitars? 'Out of Limits'? 'Telstar'? Nah, there's a

synthesizer in 'Telstar' and no synth in this. And who gives a shit? The other guys are talking

about Jackson Browne, who played the Civic Center last night and put on a kick-ass show,

according to George Pelsen, who was there.

'I'll tell you something else that was kick-ass,' George says, looking at them impressively. He

raises his undershot chin, showing them all a red mark on the side of his neck. 'You know what

that is?'

'Hickey, ain't it?' Kent Astor asks, a bit timidly.

'You're fuckin-A,' George says. 'I was hanging around the stage door after the show, me and a

bunch of other guys, hopin to get Jackson's autograph. Or maybe, I don't know, David Lindley.

He's cool.'

Kent and Sean Robideau agree that Lindley is cool — not a guitar god, by any means (Mark

Knopfler of Dire Straits is a guitar god; and Angus Young of AC/DC; and — of course —

Clapton), but very cool just the same. Lindley has great licks; he has awesome dreads, as well.

All down to his shoulders.

Beaver doesn't join in the talk. All at once he wants to get out of here, out of this stale going-

nowhere bar, and cop some fresh air. He knows where George is going with this, and it's all a lie.

Her name wasn't Chantay, you don't know what her name was, she blew right past you like

you weren't there, what would you be to a girl like her anyway, just another working-class

longhair in another working-class New England town, into the band bus she went and out of

your life. Your fuckin uninteresting life. The Chantays is the name of the group we're listening to,

not the Mar-Kets or the BarKays but the Chantays, it's 'Pipeline' by the Chantays and that thing

on your neck isn't a hickey it's a razor burn.

He thinks this, then he hears crying. Not in the Free Street but in his mind. Long-gone crying.

It goes right into your head, that crying, goes in like splinters of glass, and oh fuck, fuck me

Freddy, somebody make him stop crying.

I was the one who made him stop, Beaver thinks. That was me. I was the one who made him

stop. I took him in my arms and sang to him.

Meanwhile George Pelsen is telling them about how the stage door finally opened, but it

wasn't Jackson Browne who came out, not David Lindlev, either; it was the trio of chick singers,

one named Randi, one named Susi, and one named Chantay. Yummy ladies, oh so tall and tasty.

'Man,' Sean says, rolling his eyes. He's a chubby little fellow whose sexual exploits consist of

occasional field-trips to Boston, where he eyes the strippers at the Foxy Lady and the waitresses

at Hooters. 'Oh man, fuckin Chantay.' He makes jacking-off gestures in the air. At that, at least,

Beav thinks, he looks like a pro.

'So I started talkin to them . . . to her, mostly, Chantay, and I ast her if she'd like to see some of

the Portland night-life. So we . . .'

The Beav takes a toothpick from his pocket and slides it into his mouth, timing the rest out.

All at once the toothpick is just what he wants. Not the beer in front of him, not the joint in his

pocket, certainly not George Pelsen's empty kahoot about how he and the mythical Chantay got

it on in the back of his pickup, thank God for that camper cap, when George's Ram is rockin,

don't come knockin.

It's all puff and blow, Beaver thinks, and suddenly he is desperately depressed, more depressed

than he has been since Laurie Sue packed her stuff and moved back to her mother's. This is

utterly unlike him, and suddenly the only thing he wants is to get the fuck out of here, fill his

lungs with the cool, salt-tanged seaside air, and find a phone. He wants to do that and then to call

Jonesy or Henry, it doesn't matter which, either one will do; he wants to say Hey man, what's

going on and have one of them say back Oh, you know, Beav, SSDD. No bounce, no play.

He gets up.

'Hey, man,' George says. Beaver went to Westbrook junior College with George, and then he

seemed cool enough, but juco was many long beers ago. 'Where you goin?'

'Take a leak,' Beaver says, rolling his toothpick from one side of his mouth to the other.

'Well, you want to hurry your bad ass back, I'm just getting to the good part,' George says, and

Beaver thinks crotchless panties. Oh boy, today that old weird vibe is strong, maybe it's the

barometer or something.

Lowering his voice, George says, 'When I got her skirt up—'

'I know, she was wearin crotchless panties,' Beaver says. He registers the look of surprise —

alnost shock — in George's eyes but pays no attention. 'I sure want to hear that part.'

He walks away, walks toward the men's room with its yellow-pink smell of piss and

disinfectant, walks past it, walks past the women's, walks past the door with OFFICE on it, and

escapes into the alley. The sky overhead is white and rainy, but the air is good. So good. He

breathes it in deep and thinks again. No bounce no play. He grins a little.

He walks for ten minutes, just chewing toothpicks and clearing his head. At some point, he

can't remember exactly when, he tosses away the joint that has been in his pocket. And then he

calls Henry from the pay phone in Joe's Smoke Shop, up by Monument Square. He's expecting

the answering machine — Henry is still in school — but Henry is actually there, he picks up on

the second ring.

'How you doing, man?' Beaver asks.

'Oh, you know,' Henry says. 'Same shit, different day. How about you, Beav?'

Beav closes his eyes. For a moment everything is all right again; as right as it can be in such a

piss-ache world, anyway.

'About the same, buddy,' he replies. 'Just about the same.'

1993: Pete Helps a Lady in Distress

Pete sits behind his desk just off the showroom of Macdonald Motors in Bridgton, twirling his

keychain. The fob consists of four enameled blue letters: NASA.

Dreams age faster than dreamers, that is a fact of life Pete has discovered as the years pass.

Yet the last ones often die surprisingly hard, screaming in low, miserable voices at the back of

the brain. It's been a long time since Pete slept in a bedroom papered with pictures of Apollo and

Saturn rockets and astronauts and space-walks (EVAs, to those in the know) and space capsules

with their shields smoked and fused by the fabulous heat of re-entry and LEMs and Voyagers

and one photograph of a shiny disc over Interstate 80, people standing in the breakdown lane and

looking up with their hands shielding their eyes, the photo's caption reading THIS OBJECT,

PHOTOGRAPHED NEAR ARVADA, COLORADO IN 1971, HAS NEVER BEEN

EXPLAINED. IT IS A GENUINE UFO.

A long time.

Yet he still spent one of his two weeks of vacation this year in Washington DC, where he went

to the Smithsonian every day and spent nearly all of his time wandering among the displays with

a wondering grin on his face. And most of that time he spent looking at the moon rocks and

thinking, Those rocks came from a place where the skies are always black and the silence is

everlasting. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took twenty kilograms of another world and now

here it is.

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