In the aftermath of this destruction, a group of people in each house decide to go for help using a path that runs along the woods behind the neighborhood. Another woman is fatally wounded when a copper pot explodes over her head. As the neighbors try to regroup and figure out what is happening to them, the vans return and open fire on the houses where they have taken refuge.
The neighbors take refuge in the two houses where the previous shooting took place.Īnother girl is killed in the rush to get to safety while another loses an arm. The rest of the neighbors gather around, trying to figure out what to do when several more vans come along the street and begin to fire. A neighbor, David Carver, is also shot and killed on his own front lawn. Stunned, Mary steps out of her car and is shot by a double barreled shotgun. Mary is rammed by the van twice, causing her car to crash on her front lawn. Mary Jackson, unaware of the excitement on her quiet street, comes home from an afternoon tryst with her lover, worried more about her husband learning the truth than the strange van following closely behind as she approaches her house. However, instead of getting the calm voice of a 911 operator, Johnny hears the voice of a child who tells him a riddle and then warns him not to try to call out again. At the same time, children's author Johnny Marinville attempts to call 911 from his house. Collie Entragian, a disgraced cop, takes control of the situation and sends everyone to their respective homes in hopes of offering some protection should the van come back. The neighbors all come out onto their lawns to see what has happened. Seconds later, the gun is pointed at a couple of arguing children at the corner convenience store, but is distracted by a loving and curious dog.
Suddenly a strange van with some kind of satellite dish on its roof pulls up behind the paper boy and shoots his with a double barreled shotgun. The paper boy is making his rounds, one neighbor is washing his car while another is watering his lawn. It is a normal summer day in an Ohio neighborhood. The Regulators is a classic novel of horror filled with the same twists and turns that King fans have come to expect from the horror master. However, this creature has no idea that it has met its match in eight year old Seth. This boy's mind has been hijacked by an ancient creature that is forced to take a human host in order to use its powers to control and torture those around it to gain energy. In this novel, an entire neighborhood is terrorized by the mind of an eight year old autistic boy. The Regulators is a novel by Stephen King alter ego Richard Bachman.
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