A copy of an e-mail indicates that Charlie intends to visit the field in Maine. However, as June approaches, John is driven to madness, and finally kills himself.Ī newspaper clipping reveals Sheila's fate: after she read her brother's manuscript, she jumped from a bridge near Ackerman's Field and killed herself, in a manner identical to her brother. The effect recedes as winter sets in, since the level of danger seems to be synchronized with the solstices (winter is safest, summer is most dangerous). Most notable are his obsession with numbers: odd numbers are bad, especially prime ones, even ones are safe, especially if they have a lot of factors, and if the sum of their digits is also even. might not have been delusional after all when he suffers from the same symptoms as his patient. N.'s obsession eventually leads to his death by suicide, despite Johnny's best efforts.įollowing a mysterious compulsion, John goes out to the field to see the stones for himself. However, the process is a perpetual and exhausting struggle. N's belief, shared by those who came before him, is that verifying the presence of eight stones when he is in the field, and his obsession with order when he is absent, somehow strengthens the barrier between our world and the one Cthun dwells in. A warning sign of the monster's imminent penetration is when a person viewing the field sees seven stones, when there are in fact eight. has become convinced that a circle of stones in Ackerman's Field (a field on the outskirts of the town of Motton, Maine) contains a potential doorway (best described as a place where the walls between realities are thin, or perhaps breaking down) to another reality, where a terrifying monster, repeatedly said to be a 'helmet-headed' being named Cthun, is trying to break through. John Bonsaint as suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder and paranoid delusions related to 'keeping balance'. Sheila suspects it was due to a patient Johnny referred to in his notes anonymously as the eponymous 'N'. In the outer circle of a nested narrative, a woman named Sheila writes to her childhood friend Charlie about her brother, Johnny, a psychiatrist who recently committed suicide.

is a novella written by Stephen King that appears in his collection Just After Sunset (2008).

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