Gwendy and Her Box

There are three ways to get from Castle Rock to Castle View: via highway number 117, Pleasant Road, or the Suicide Stairs. Every day throughout the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson climbed the staircase, held by strong iron bolts and zigzagging up the sheer slope. And one day, when Gwendy reached the top, catching her breath and hearing the shouts of children at the playground, a stranger spoke to her. Sitting on a bench in the shade was a man in black jeans, a black jacket, and a white shirt unbuttoned at the collar. He wore a neat little black hat. The time will come when this hat will haunt Gwendy in her nightmares… In the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, many unusual things occurred, but there is still one story you have not heard. And now its time has come…