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Insomnia

by Stephen King

Synopsis:

Insomnia.zip Insomnia by Stephen King Ralph Roberts has been having
trouble sleeping lately. As his insomnia progresses, strange things
begin to happen to him. BBut, after all, Ralph lives in Derry and as
King devotees well know, strange things have a way of happening in
Derry.

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published in 1994 by Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA
Inc.

Copyright (c) Stephen King, 1994

illustrations copyright David Johnson, 1994

NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used
fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,
events, Or locales is entirely coincidental.

Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint excerpts from

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Library of Congress Catalog and publishing data:

King, Stephen Insomnia / Stephen King.

ISBN 0-670-85503-0

1. Title.

PS3561.483156 1994

813'.54-dc2O 94 784

Insomnia

Prologue

Winding the Deathwatch

(1)

Old age is an island, surrounded by death. -Juan Mentalvo "On Beauty" Ne
one-least of all Dr. Litchfield-came right out and told Ralph Roberts
that his wife was going to die, but there came a time when Ralph
understood without needing to be told. The months between March and
June were a jangling, screaming time inside his head-a time of
conferences with doctors, of evening runs to the hospital with Carolyn,
of trips to other hospitals in other states for special tests (Ralph
spent much of his travel time an these trips thanking God for Carolyn's
Blue Cross/Major Medical cocoverage), of personal research in the Derry
Public Library, at first Imaking for answers the specialists might have
overlooked, later on just looking for hope and grasping at straws.

Those four months were like being dragged drunk through some malign
carnival where the people on the rides were really screaming, the people
lost in the mirror maze were really lost, and the denizens of Freak
Alley looked at you with false smiles on their lips and terror in their
eyes. Ralph began to see these things by the middle of May, and as June
set in, he began to understand that the pitchmen along the medical
midway had only quack remedies to sell, and the cheery quickstep of the
calliope could no longer quite hide the fact that the tune spilling out
of the loudspeakers was "The Funeral March." It was a carnival, all
right; the carnival of lost souls.

Ralph continued to deny these terrible images-and the even more terrible
idea lurking behind them-all through the early summer of 1992, but as
June gave way to July, this finally became impossible. The worst
midsummer heatwave since 1971 rolled over central Maine, and Derry
simmered in a bath of hazy sun, humidity, and daily temperatures in the
mid-nineties. The city-hardly