Dreamcatcher (novel)

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Dreamcatcher

First edition cover
Author	Stephen King
Cover artist	Cliff Nielsen
Language	English
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Scribner
Publication date	March 20, 2001
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	620
ISBN	978-0-7432-1138-3

Dreamcatcher is a 2001 science fiction horror novel by American writer Stephen King, featuring elements of body horror, suspense and alien invasion. The book, written in longhand, helped the author recuperate from a 1999 car accident, and was completed in half a year. According to the author in his afterword, the working title was Cancer.^[1] His wife, Tabitha King, persuaded him to change the title. A film adaptation was released in 2003.

King has since soured on the book, as, in 2014, he told Rolling Stone that "I don't like Dreamcatcher very much," and also stated that the book was written under the influence of Oxycontin, which he was on to control the pain from his accident.^[2]