Welcome to Desperation. A place beyond your wildest imaginings. Where the unbelievable can become reality…
Desperation: a small town in the middle of the Nevada desert. It looks hauntingly familiar with its signs to the Desperation Coffee Shop and Video Spot. Just off the loneliest highway in America, it should be a refuge in a wasteland. But there’s something missing. The once thriving copper mining town now seems eerily empty. Almost abandoned. Except for a few desert animals – snake, coyote, buzzard. And of course the local cop patrolling the wilderness road – Desperation’s unique regulator.
Headed down Highway 50 are travelers who are never going to reach their destinations. Like the Jacksons, a young professor and his wife going home to New York City; the Carvers, a Wentworth, Ohio family bound for a vacation in Lake Tahoe; and Johnny Marinville, the once famous writer who’s getting back on the road with a new book, ‘Travels with Harley’.
The secrets embedded in Desperation’s landscape are as awesome as the forces summoned to encounter them. When they are unleashed, a terrifying transformation takes place and the wayfarers will begin to discover the true meaning of the word desperation.
Desperation is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its “mirror” novel, The Regulators, itself published under King’s Richard Bachman pseudonym. It was also made into a TV film starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt and Steven Weber in 2006.