![]() After helping various people, Johnny becomes frustrated by sensationalistic media reports of his supposed psychic talents. ![]() As a result, Johnny sometimes experiences clairvoyant visions when touching people and objects. Waking up over four years later, Johnny finds that he has suffered a neural injury, with one part of his brain seriously damaged, making it a "dead zone." As if to compensate, other parts of the brain now show heightened activity. After winning repeatedly at a carnival wheel of fortune, Johnny is involved in a car accident and falls into a coma. In an unconnected incident, a young, emotionally troubled door-to-door Bible salesman named Greg Stillson vindictively kicks a dog to death.īy 1970, Johnny is a high school teacher in the small town of Cleaves Mills, Maine with a new girlfriend named Sarah. The book spawned a 1983 film adaptation as well as a television series.Īs a child in 1953, Johnny Smith falls unconscious while ice-skating, then mumbles a prophetic warning to an adult who later suffers an accident. The Dead Zone is King's seventh novel and the fifth under his own name. ![]() THE DEAD ZONE SERIESThe TV series Castle Rock takes place in this fictional town and makes references to the Strangler whom Johnny helped track down in The Dead Zone. The Dead Zone is the first story by King to feature the fictional town of Castle Rock, which serves as the setting for several later stories and is referenced in others. The book was nominated for the Locus Award in 1980 and was dedicated to King's son Owen. ![]() Though earlier King books were successful, The Dead Zone was the first of his novels to rank among the ten best-selling novels of the year in the United States. THE DEAD ZONE SERIALWhen some information is blocked from his perception, Johnny refers to that information as being trapped in the part of his brain that is permanently damaged, "the dead zone." The novel also follows a serial killer in Castle Rock, and the life of rising politician Greg Stillson, both of whom are evils Johnny must eventually face. The story follows Johnny Smith, who awakens from a coma of nearly five years and, apparently as a result of brain damage, now experiences clairvoyant and precognitive visions triggered by touch. The Dead Zone is a science fiction thriller novel by Stephen King published in 1979. ![]()
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