Yet another mammoth horror novel from King, this dark tale depicts a
small town's fatal encounter with creatures from outer space. Events
start with Roberta Anderson, a writer of Old West novels, unearthing
a flying saucer on her remote wooded property. Five hundred pages later
alcoholic poet Jim Gardener, Roberts's former English teacher, finds
himself aboard the flying saucer in outer space. In the interval the
creatures (Tommyknockers) destroy the citizenry of Haven, Maine. While
this is not one of King's more original novels, it does have plenty
of blood and guts, macabre humor, and a well-wrought realization of
the New England countryside.