Chamberlain, ME. 1979. Carrie White is again cruelly pranked, on the night of her high school prom. In a fit of rage, she directly and indirectly causes the deaths of hundreds, and the destruction of much of Chamberlain. Carrie White posses the rare TK Gene, which gives here the powers of telekinesis, and the ability to read minds and broadcast her own thoughts. She dies, due to many different injuries, and the strain her powers take on her heart.
Elsewhere, a young Annie Jenks shows signs of possessing the TB Gene.
Jerusalem's Lot, ME. 1975. Ben Mears, a struggling author, returns to his childhood haunt of 'salem's Lot, and fascinated by the legend of the haunted Marsten House, begins writing his new book about it. He falls in love with Susan Norton, but he cannot get the house off his mind. A man named Richard Straker, and his parter, Kurt Barlow, purchased the Marsten house before he arrived. Through a series of child disappearances, a schoolteacher, Matt Burke, comes to the conlcusion that one of the missing kids has become a vampire. Slowly, the inhabitants of 'salem's Lot all become vampires, and Ben Mears teams up with Susan, Matt, Mark Petrie, a bright young boy, Jimmy Cody, Matt's doctor, and Father Callahan, a priest and a drunk. Barlow is revealed to be the first vampire, and they must stop him.
Susan turns, and must be killed by Ben. Matt dies by a heart attack. Jimmy is tricked by Barlow, and falls, impaled on knives. Father Callahan is forced to drink Barlow's tainted blood, and becomes something less than human, but not vampire. He leaves 'salem's Lot. Ultimately, Ben and Mark impale Barlow, killing him, but the town is very much still full of vampires. They flee to Los Zapatos, Mexico. Months later, they return, and start a forest fire, intending to purify the town.
The Overlook Hotel, near Sidewinder, CO. Mid to late 1970s. Jack Torrance, a struggling author and recovering alcoholic, is fired from his teaching position in Maine after hurting one of his students. On an olding drinking buddy, Al Shockley's, recommendation, he is given the task to be the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, during the Winter months. He and his family move into the Hotel, and end up snowed in for a significant amount of time. His wife, Wendy, has a strained relationship with Jack, since the time he broke his son, Danny's, arm in a drunken fit of rage.
Upon arriving at the Overlook, Danny meets Dick Hallorann, who like him, has the Shining, the ability to read the thoughts and emotions of those around him, in particular his parents, as well as project his thoughts to others with the Shining. There are many others who shine in this world, but Danny is a particularly bright one. Danny can go into a trance, and see visions of the future, shown to him by his "imaginary friend" Tony.
Jack and Danny both are tormented by the Hotel with visions of it's dark past, and Wendy soon joins them. Slowly, it twists Jack into obsessing over the Hotel, and uses him to do it's bidding. On December 2nd, ghostly visions of the Hotel's past residents, convince Jack to kill his wife and Danny, as it can feed off his Shining. He ends up taking a roque mallet, beating Wendy, Dick (who raced there from Florida at Danny's behest), and nearly had Danny, before the Hotel's boiler explodes, setting the whole place on fire. Dick, a gravely injured Wendy, and Danny flee down the mountain, and live.
A year later, Wendy decide to take Al up on his offer, and move to Maryland with Danny for some unknown job. Dick affirms that Danny and he will remain friends for life.
Placerville, ME. 1976. Charlie Decker, is a problem student of Placerville High School. He likes to "get it on," sometimes, and today, he decides to use his father's gun to hold his Algebra 2 class hostage. They remain remarkably calm, despite the teacher with a bullet in her head. He tells them stories of his childhood, how he got to this point. They in turn, tell him stories. Ted Jones seems to be the only one willing to stand up to him. The police try to reason with him, but all he seems to want is time, for them all to "get it on." They each have opportunities to escape, to overpower him, but none of them take it. The only true hostage is Ted.
Just before 1:00, when he promised they would be "released," all of the classmates have developed a kind of hatred for Ted, the one oppositional force to Charlie. As in a trance, they grab him, gag him, beat him, cover him in ink. Then they all leave, hands ink-stained. Charlie is shot and arrested.
Months later, Charlie has been sent to a mental institution, and Ted is borderline catatonic. Charlie speculates he'll never be set free.
Chapelwaite, near Preacher's Corners & Jerusalem's Lot, ME. 1850. Charles Boone moves into his family home of Chapelwaite, with his manservant Calvin McCann. Chapelwaite is said to be cursed, where many of Boone's family have had untimely accidents. They hear noises in the walls, and are shunned by the citizens of Preacher's Corners. Calvin finds a map of a nearby abandoned town, Jerusalem's Lot, which they investigate. In the Lot's church, they find a satanic mass, with the book De Vermis Mysteriis, The Mysteries of the Worm. Charles learns that his grandfather, Robert Boone, tried to steal the book from his brother, Philip Boone, causing a family rift. Philip was involved with a cult in the Lot, before the entire town vanished on October 31, 1789. In Chapelwaite's basement, they find the undead corpses of Charles' relatives, nosferatu, and they resolve to go to the Lot to destroy the book. Charles thinks that the Worm must be summoned by one of Boone bloodline. Returning to the Lot, Charles becomes momentarily possesed, and summons the Worm. Knocked out of his stupor by Calvin, he burns the book, and the Worm kills Calvin, then disappears. Charles flees, and takes his own life to prevent the Worm from being summoned once again.
In 1971, a bastard descendent of Robert Boone, James Robert Boone, comes to his family home of Chapelwaite, and begins to hear noises in the walls.
Gates Falls, ME. Hall, an employee of a textile mill, is recruited by his boss, Warwick, to assist in a massive cleaning effort of the mill's basement. The basement is infested with unusually large rats. Later, they discover a trapdoor to an even deeper level. Hall blackmails Warwick into accompanying him down, where they find hundreds of rats, and one huge cow-sized mother rat. The two of them are eaten.
The other workers wonder what has happened to them, and descend after them.
Anson Beach, NH. The A6 flu virus, also known as Captain Trips has wiped out the majority of humanity. A group of teenagers, including Bernie, and his tentative girlfriend Susie, live out the end of the world on the Beach, believing themselves immune, since they previously had the A2 flu virus. One of the group is sick with A6 however, and Bernie begins to accept his eventual death.