History Literature / DumaKey

* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: Perse. Oh man, Perse.]]

* Foreshadowing: Elizabeth, via her Alzheimers, is channeling...something...and what seem to be senile comments often turn out to be quite useful.
** [spoiler: "My father was a skindiver.", the picnic basket in the attic, and the china dolls in the choi pond are among the most obvious.]]

* [[Spoiler: OurZombiesAreDifferent]]: [[spoiler: Emery, Adie, and the twins certainly count.]]

In this novel by Creator/StephenKing, the retired company owner, Edgar Freemantle, gives an account of a chain of events that formed the strangest year in his life. Events that took place four years ago on the little Floridan island, Duma Key. However; the prelude to this, happens some months before, when Edgar is almost crushed to death in an accident with a crane, and as a result he loses his right arm, damages his hip, and suffers from loss of vocabulary and memory, and is prone to having intense and violent fits of anger, especially when the latter is causing him trouble.

After the accident Edgar's wife, Pam, leaves him after he harms her during his mood swings, and the depressed Edgar is playing with thoughts of suicide. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, advises him to try and settle down somewhere new for a year and cultivate his old hobby of sketching.

After browsing brochures Edgar feels strangely drawn to the island Duma Key, and with the help of Jack Cantori, a local college student, he moves into a rented house named Salmon Point (which Edgar nicknames "Big Pink") and starts drawing pencil-sketches and taking walks on the island, doing which he meets and befriends Jerome Wireman, a former lawyer and the caretaker and hired companion of Elizabeth Eastlake, an old woman who owns all the houses on Duma Key and suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

As he is drawing more and more pictures, Edgar starts feeling weird itchy sensitizations in his missing arm, and discovers that this is giving him the ability to make some really good, but also very {{spooky painting}}s, of which some appears to be windows into the past, while others can outright [[RealityWarper warp reality]] and [[ArtInitiatesLife initiate life]]. But is it really Edgar himself who is the mind behind these paintings, or is it something else? Something sinister? And could it somehow be related to the rumors about the terrible things that happened on Duma Key in the 1920s? And just who is the feminine figure in the red cloak who appears on Edgar's paintings?

* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead

In this novel by StephenKing, the retired company owner, Edgar Freemantle, gives an account of a chain of events that formed the strangest year in his life. Events that took place four years ago on the little Floridan island, Duma Key. However; the prelude to this, happens some months before, when Edgar is almost crushed to death in an accident with a crane, and as a result he loses his right arm, damages his hip, and suffers from loss of vocabulary and memory, and is prone to having intense and violent fits of anger, especially when the latter is causing him trouble.

* DontGoIntoTheWoods

* {{Squick}}: When Gandalf gets hit by the car.

* {{Squick}}: When Gandalf gets hit by the car.

After the accident Edgar's wife, Pam, leaves him after he harms her during his mood swings, and the depressed Edgar is playing with thoughts of suicide. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, advices him to try and settle down somewhere new for a year and cultivate his old hobby of sketching.

As he is drawing more and more pictures, Edgar starts feeling weird itchy sensitizations in his missing arm, and discovers that this is giving him the ability to make some really good, but also very {{spooky painting}}s, of which some appears to be windows into the past, while others can outright [[RealityWarper warp reality]] and [[ArtInitiatesLife initiate life]]. But is it really Edgar himself who are the mind behind these paintings, or is it something else? Something sinister? And could it somehow be related to the rumors about the terrible things that happened on Duma Key in the 1920s? And just who is the feminine figure in the red cloak who appears on Edgar's paintings?

* [[spoiler:AsLongAsThereIsEvil]]: [[spoiler:Perse can not be killed, only weaken for a period, but Edgar is making damn sure that it will take her a while to return]].

In this novel by StephenKing, the retired company owner, Edgar Freemantle, gives an account of a chain of events that formed the strangest year in his life. Events that took place four years ago on the little Floridan island, Duma Key. However; the prelude to this, happens some months before, when Edgar is almost crushed to death in an accident with a crane, and as a result he loses his right arm, damages his hip, and suffers from loss of vocabulary and memory, and is prone to having intense and violent fits of anger, especially when the later is causing him trouble.

* [[spoiler:[[SoulTrain Soul Ship]]]]

After the accident Edgar's wife, Pam, leaves him after he harms her doing his mood swings, and the depressed Edgar is playing with thoughts of suicide. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, advices him to try and settle down somewhere new for a year and cultivate his old hobby of sketching.

* Squick: When Gandalf gets hit by the car.

In this novel by StephenKing, the retired company owner, Edgar Freemantle, gives an account of a chain of events that formed the strangest year in his life. Events that took place four years ago on the little Floridan island, Duma Key. However; the prelude to this, happens some months before, when Edgar is almost crushed to death by in an accident with a crane, and as a result he loses his right arm, damages his hip, and suffers from loss of vocabulary and memory, and is prone to having intense and violent fits of anger, especially when the later is causing him trouble.

In this novel by StephenKing, the retired company owner, Edgar Freemantle, gives an account of a chain of events that formed the strangest year in his life. Events that took place four years ago on the little Floridan island, Duma Key. However; the prelude to this, happens some mouths before, when Edgar is almost crushed to death by in an accident with a crane, and as a result he loses his right arm, damages his hip, and suffers from loss of vocabulary and memory, and is prone to having intense and violent fits of anger, especially when the later is causing him trouble.

As he is drawing more and more pictures, Edgar starts feeling weird itchy sensitizations in his missing arm, and discovers that this is giving him the ability to makes some really good, but also very {{spooky painting}}s, of which some appears to be windows into the past, while others can outright [[RealityWarper warp reality]] and [[ArtInitiatesLife initiate life]]. But is it really Edgar himself who are the mind behind these paintings, or is it something else? Something sinister? And could it somehow be related to the rumors about the terrible things that happened on Duma Key in the 1920s? And just who is the feminine figure in the red cloak who appears on Edgar's paintings?

After browsing brochures Edgar feels strangely drawn to the island Durma Key, and with the help of Jack Cantori, a local college student, he moves into a rented house named Salmon Point (which Edgar nicknames "Big Pink") and starts drawing pencil-sketches and taking walks on the island, doing which he meets and befriends Jerome Wireman, a former lawyer and the caretaker and hired companion of Elizabeth Eastlake, an old woman who owns all the houses on Duma Key and suffers from Alzheimer's disease.

* [[spoiler:[[SoulTrain Soul Ship]]]]