Tak can also manipulate desert wildlife such as coyotes, buzzards, spiders and scorpions. Tak had been imprisoned in an old mine shaft and can take possession of human beings, but this state quickly deteriorates the host and requires it to change hosts. They realize that they are the only survivors of a wave of carnage committed by an evil supernatural entity named Tak. They take refuge in an abandoned theater and are joined by Steve, Cynthia and Audrey, an employee of the mine.
Meanwhile, Johnny's assistant Steve, who had been trailing him at a distance, finds Johnny's bike and searches for him with Cynthia, a hitchhiker.Įntragian takes Ellen Carver with him, and during his absence, the intensely devout Carver son, David, manages to free everyone, and the party takes him on as a spiritual guide.
Several other people are held captive here: the Carver family, whose daughter was also killed by Entragian Johnny Marinville, a writer who was on a cross-country motorcycle trip to gather new material and Tom Billingsley, the town veterinarian. They are taken to the police station of a deserted small mining town named Desperation, where Entragian kills Peter. Peter and Mary Jackson are driving quietly on a desolate Nevada highway when they are pulled over and arrested by the disturbed Collie Entragian. They begin to fight for their freedom, sanity and lives before realizing that if they are ever to escape Desperation, they must trap Tak in the place from which he came. It becomes clear to the captives that Entragian has been possessed by an evil being named Tak, who has control over the surrounding desert wildlife and must change hosts to keep itself alive.
Entragian uses various pretexts for the abductions, from an arrest for drug possession to "rescuing" a family from a nonexistent gunman. The two novels represent parallel universes relative to one another, and most of the characters present in one novel's world also exist in the other novel's reality, albeit in different circumstances.ĭesperation is a story about several people who, while traveling along the desolated Highway 50 in Nevada, get abducted by Collie Entragian, the deputy of the fictional mining town of Desperation. It was also made into a TV film starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt and Steven Weber in 2006. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, The Regulators, itself published under King's Richard Bachman pseudonym. Desperation is a horror novel by American author Stephen King.
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