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The Running Man
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Mystery Walk
by Robert R. McCammon (1983)
★3.83(12 ratings)
From deep within the empty house of a murdered family, Billy Creekmore hears his name whispered…and is drawn inside. At a revival meeting in Alabama, Wayne Falconer demonstrates his miraculous healing powers…while demons feast and grow in his soul. On separate journeys through the Deep South to Chicago, from a world of innocence to a world of evil, greed, and lust, the two young men discover their manhood—and fuel a deadly rivalry. On a scorched slab of desert they will meet in fear and unite their extraordinary powers against a raging, unshackled spirit—the walking, hungry corpse of the Shape Changer.
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The Test
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Like Mystery Walk, The Road emphasizes human endurance in a bleak world with a grim, pending dread.
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The Parable of the Sower
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