![]() ![]() The story has been adapted twice into visual media. As he comes to terms with all that has happened in the missing five years of his life and the notoriety he gains with his abilities, he finds himself trying to stop the election of Greg Stillson, an up-and-coming politician whom Johnny foresees will cause a nuclear apocalypse. Now, whenever he touches something or someone, Johnny may have a psychic vision of the past, present or a possible future. It has the distinction of being entirely planned from the start unlike his usual Writing by the Seat of Your Pants, and is the only time he tried this and ended up liking the result.Ī high school teacher named Johnny Smith is left in a coma for four and a half years following a car accident - only to discover when he wakes up that, while he has suffered slight brain damage creating a "dead zone" where certain concepts are inaccessible, he has also gone from having occasional flashes of precognition, to having a powerful form of psychometry. The Dead Zone is a 1979 sci-fi/thriller novel by Stephen King. ![]()
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