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The Regulators - 1st Edition!
Author: Richard Bachman (a.k.a. Stephen King)

Richard Bachman is a pseudonym in which Stephen King wrote several books. Mr. King used this alter ego so he could publish more than one book a year. — COPIED FROM BARNES AND NOBLE-"f you've ever wondered why Stephen King has written several books under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, there is actually a very simple explanation: King is so prolifi... more »c that he felt it necessary to create an alter-ego so that he could publish more than one book a year. The name was a hastily hobbled together combination of writer Richard Stark (ironically, a pseudonym for Donald Westlake) and Randy Bachman of rock group Bachman-Turner Overdrive." The alter ego, Bachman "died" in 1985. Then resurfaced with Thr Regulators.

You may also want to read "Desperation" before reading The Regulators....The Regulators and Desperation are companion books of sorts.

SYNOPSIS--It's a summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, and on Poplar Street everything's normal. The paper boy is making his rounds; the Carver kids are bickering at the corner convenience store; a Frisbee is flying on the Reeds' lawn; Gary Soderson is firing up the backyard barbecue. The only thing that doesn't quite fit is the red van idling just up the hill. Soon it will begin to roll, and the killing will begin. A quiet slice of American suburbia is about to turn to toast. The mayhem rages around a seemingly still point, a darkened house lit fitfully from within by a flickering television screen. Inside, where things haven't been normal for a long time, are Audrey Wyler and the autistic nephew she cares for, eight-year-old Seth Garin. They're fighting their own battle, and its intensity has turned 247 Poplar Street into a prisonhouse. By the time night falls on Poplar Street, the surviving residents will find themselves in another world, one where anything, no matter how terrible, is possible...and where the regulators are on their way. By what power they have come, how far they will go, and how they can be stopped -- these are the desperate questions. The answers are absolutely terrifying.

EXCERPT FROM PUBLISHERS WEEKLY-"The theme is the horror of TV, played out through the terrors visited upon quiet Poplar Street in the postcard-perfect suburban town of Wentworth, Ohio, when a discorporeal psychic vampire settles inside an autistic boy obsessed with TV westerns and kiddie action shows and brings screen images to demented, lethal life."

Publishers Weekly-"The theme is the horror of TV, played out through the terrors visited upon quiet Poplar Street in the postcard-perfect suburban town of Wentworth, Ohio, when a discorporeal psychic vampire settles inside an autistic boy obsessed with TV westerns and kiddie action shows and brings screen images to demented, lethal life."

THIS BOOK IS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. Selling online @ autcions for $15-30 its definately deserving of a permanent home in a collectors library!

ISBN: 182908
Publication Date: 10/1996
Pages: 512
Rating:

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.

3.9 stars, based on 4 ratings

Publisher: DUTTON Pub By The Penguin Group
Book Type: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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Genres:

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense >> Thrillers & Suspense

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