The Tommyknockers 1987 Horror Novel by Stephen King
The Tommyknockers is a 1987 horror novel by Stephen King.
Although sustaining a horror style, the novel is a lot more of an excursion to the realm of science fiction for King, as the residents with the Maine town of Haven gradually fall under the effect of the mysterious object buried inside the woods.
In his autobiography, On Writing, King attributes the basic premise towards the short story “The Colour Out of Space” by H. P. Lovecraft. It also draws relatively obvious parallels using the classic 1956 movie Invasion from the Body Snatchers and also the 1959 novelette The Large Front Yard by Clifford Simak. King wrote the book in the course of a period of acknowledged substance abuse, and has written that he realized later on that the novel was a metaphor for that addiction.
The writer and critic Kim Newman has cited another impact around the novel, saying that in it King had “more or much less rewritten Quatermass as well as the Pit,”[1] a 1950s BBC television science-fiction serial. This effect was also picked up on within the Times newspaper’s review from the book on its release.[2]
The original 1987 hardcover edition was issued with dust jackets in 3 various states. The most common ones are while using author’s name in gold (pictured about the proper) and red lettering. The more uncommon state from the dust jacket functions the author’s name in silver lettering and pale blue light shining from below the door, as opposed to green as inside the other two variants.
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