- After the Flood (1957)
- After the Carnival (1984)
- Six Phone Calls (1985)
- Derry: The First Interlude
- Ben Hanscom Takes a Fall
- Bill Denbrough Beats the Devil (I)
- One of the Missing: A Tale From the Summer of '58
- The Dam In the Barrens
- Georgie's Room and the House On Neibolt Street
- Cleaning Up
- Derry: The Second Interlude
- The Reunion
- Walking Tours
- Three Uninvited Guests
- Derry: The Third Interlude
- The Apocalyptic Rockfight
- The Album
- The Smoke-Hole
- Eddie's Bad Break
- Another One of the Missing: The Death of Patrick Hockstetter
- The Bullseye
- Derry: The Fourth Interlude
- In the Watches of the Night
- The Circle Closes
- Under the City
- The Ritual of Chud
- Out
- Derry: The Final Interlude
- Epilogue: Bill Denbrough Beats the Devil (II)
Derry: The First Interlude
Similar to Tolkein in The Lord of the Rings, King fills his epic story with many tangents and side stories to better build the mythology he has created. Unlike Tolkein, however, who included several appendices (that many readers skip), King includes them within the novel through the device of Mike's journal entries.
The five interludes can be summarized as follows: the first is a prologue, the last is an epilogue, and the other three form a Trilogy of Narratives. This first interlude introduces us to Mike, who we keep hearing about but haven't really met. We learn he is part of the same group as the others, but unlike them he stayed in Derry, working as the head librarian. He knows a history that no one else does. And he can't forget what the others have.
Mike tells us that something bad is happening in Derry and concludes that the town itself is strangely evil: there is something fundamentally wrong there. Most adults living there "turn the other way" and refuse to see what's going on. Mike also mentions having spoken to the previous librarian, who was also aware of the "cycles" every 27-30 years, and we know full well what that is.
Not much to say about this interlude, but it does set up the idea of cycles very well, which are a theme in King's work, particularly in The Stand and The Dark Tower series.
The five interludes can be summarized as follows: the first is a prologue, the last is an epilogue, and the other three form a Trilogy of Narratives. This first interlude introduces us to Mike, who we keep hearing about but haven't really met. We learn he is part of the same group as the others, but unlike them he stayed in Derry, working as the head librarian. He knows a history that no one else does. And he can't forget what the others have.
Mike tells us that something bad is happening in Derry and concludes that the town itself is strangely evil: there is something fundamentally wrong there. Most adults living there "turn the other way" and refuse to see what's going on. Mike also mentions having spoken to the previous librarian, who was also aware of the "cycles" every 27-30 years, and we know full well what that is.
Not much to say about this interlude, but it does set up the idea of cycles very well, which are a theme in King's work, particularly in The Stand and The Dark Tower series.