Canon Welding: 'The Sun Dog,' like many King stories, takes place in Castle Rock, Maine.

The Cameo: Recurring Castle Rock characters Sheriff Alan Pangborn and Deputy Norris Ridgewick make brief cameos in 'The Sun Dog'.Pop Merrill eventually winds up turned into its slave. Brainwashed: The longer one possesses the Magical Camera in 'The Sun Dog', the more influence it exerts over its owner.Big Good: Whoever it is in 'The Sun Dog' who sends Kevin helpful psychic dreams.The Sun Dog: The titular Sun Dog, a mysterious creature that inhabits and is trying to escape the camera it is trapped in in order to kill Kevin Delevan.It is responsible for the sexual assault of Sam Peebles as a young boy and wants to use him as its new face, replacing Ardelia Lortz. The Library Policeman: Ardelia Lortz aka The Library Policeman a creature similar to Pennywise the Dancing Clown who used to work at the library Sam Peebles works to feed on the children’s fear.Secret Window, Secret Garden: John Shooter AKA Mort Rainey’s alternate personality who kick-started the plot by claiming Mort stole his story.Craig Toomey serves as The Heavy as the most direct threat while The Langoliers are approaching. The Langoliers: The titular monsters serve as this as they a consuming the past and threaten to consume the main characters with it who have flown through a time rift.Secret Window, Secret Garden was made into the 2004 film Secret Window, starring Johnny Depp.Ī Description of Tropes appearing in Four Past Midnight: The Langoliers was made into a two-apart 1995 Mini Series from the director of Child's Play. The Sun Dog: A sort of prequel to Needful Things about a Magical Camera.

The Library Policeman: A man who is struggling to write a speech checks out two books on the subject, and becomes stalked by a strange man, and an equally strange librarian.Secret Window, Secret Garden: A writer has to deal with accusations of plagiarism from a particularly unhinged man.The Langoliers: A group of people on a cross-country red-eye flight awaken to find their fellow passengers (and the plane's crew) have completely disappeared.Four Past Midnight is a 1990 collection of four horror novellas by Speculative Fiction writer Stephen King.

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