INSOMNIA / AUDIO

The books call it premature waking; Ralph, who is still learning to be a widower, calls it a season in hell. Hes begun to notice a strangeness in his familiar surroundings, to experience visual phenomena that he cant quite believe are hallucinations. Soon, Ralph thinks, he wont be sleeping at all, and what then? A problem, yes - though perhaps not so uncommon, you might say. But Ralph has lived his entire life in Derry, Maine, and Derry isnt like other places, as millions of Stephen King readers will gladly testify. They remember It, also set in Derry, and know theres a mean streak running through this small New England city; underneath its ordinary surface awesome and terrifying forces are at work. The dying, natural and otherwise, has been going on in Derry for a long, long time. Now Ralph is part of it. So are his friends. And so are the strangers they encounter.