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- The Tommyknockers is a 1987 science fiction novel by Stephen King.
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The Tommyknockers is a 1987 science fiction novel by Stephen King. While maintaining a horror style, the novel is an excursion into the realm of science fiction for King, as the residents of the Maine town of Haven gradually fall under the influence of a mysterious object buried in the woods.
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The Tommyknockers takes its title from an obscure children's rhyme. It goes: "Late last night and the night before,Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at the door. I want to go out, don't know if I can, 'Cause I'm so afraid of the Tommyknocker man." King himself wrote the second verse; and claims to have heard the first verse when he was a child...
While walking in the woods near the small town of Haven, Maine, Roberta (Bobbi) Anderson, a writer of Wild West-based fiction, stumbles upon a metal object which turns out to be a protrusion of a long-buried alien spacecraft. Once exposed, the spacecraft begins releasing an invisible, odorless gas into the atmosphere which gradually transforms peop...
The story was adapted into a television miniseries that aired on ABCin 1993. In July 2013, following the success of CBS' Under the Dome, NBC announced that it was developing an "event series" based on The Tommyknockers.
The writer who discovered the Tommyknockers ship. Her books all have a distinct western feel and include "Hangtown", "Rimfire Christmas", "The Long Ride Back", "Massacre Canyon", "Boxing the Compass (A collection of Poems dedicated to James Gardener)".
Nov 10, 1987 · When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them.
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Stephen King's The Tommyknockers ★★ ½ The Tommyknockers 1993 (R) Another of King's creepy tales, adapted for TV. Bobbi (Helgenberger) and Gard (Smits) live in the small town of Haven, Maine (actually filmed on New Zealand's North Island). She's an aspiring writer; he's a fading poet with a drinking problem and a metal plate in his head ...
May 9, 1993 · The Tommyknockers. Released. May 09th, 1993. Available Format (s) TV Broadcast Only. Channel/Service. ABC. Writer Bobbi Anderson (Marg Helgenberger) becomes obsessed with digging up something she’s found buried in the woods near her home. With the help of her friend, Jim Gardener (Jimmy Smits), she uncovers an alien spaceship.
The Tommyknockers. Stephen King. Simon and Schuster, Aug 30, 2016 - Fiction - 992 pages. Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller about a...
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