Talk:The Tommyknockers

message: " Spoiler" I believe  "The Tommyknockers" is connected with IT  
with one event in the book. The event is when the two kids have 
to go to Derry,Maine to pick up batterys for Haven. On there way
back there start getting sick and the one that is driving sudden 
sees a clown in the manhole, but he closes his eyes and the clown 
dissapears thinking it was only his eyes playing tricks. Thus that 
had to be Pennywise. Mr. DC
:You might be interested in this chart, which is linked to from The Dark Tower (series).  — Laura Scudder ☎ 15:01, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: also (from the Talisman) Jake happens upon Gard on the beach near the Alhambra inn/hotel.  this is shortly after Gard's 'incident' at the Poetry caravan after-party
I dont know about Jack meeting Gard in The Talisman, but his mother was dying of cancer, not dead from a car crash.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Secher nbiw (talk • contribs) 09:48, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

text: Isn't there an incident in which one of the characters spends a night in Derry and hears chuckling from the drains?  I could be mistaking this with another book, as it's been a while since I've read The Tommyknockers.  Joel Blanchette 17:56, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When the two teenagers are sent into Derry to buy batteries.  They assume they're hallucinating along with their physical ailments from leaving Haven.  — Laura Scudder ☎ 21:03, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
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message: Can someone provide a citation/evidence that the "Tommyknockers" rhyme actually exists outside of Haven? Obviously a Google search is going to be largely fruitless... -- nae'blis (talk) 22:26, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, for what it's worth, in his introduction King says both he and his wife grew up knowing the first verse, but that he wrote the rest that appear in the book.  He also says that the word tommyknocker appears in Webster's Unabridged, which could be checked at a library I'm sure.  Might have the rhyme in it's entry even.— Laura Scudder ☎ 00:08, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Children's rhyme

message: I'm struggling to find a proper source for this, but there was an episode of The Outer Limits (the newer series) where the female lead character starts going psychotic due to having accidentally shooting herself in the head. She then starts seeing the man in a photo that came with her picture frame speak to her, and she gains amazing knowledge and talent, most notably with wiring- she then rewires her TV so as to shock and kill her cheating husband, and then dies along with him. I know that this episode was based on Tommyknockers, but I'm struggling to find a source.
:You're looking for  The Revelations of Becka Paulson. Written by Stephen King. The Wikipedia entry does not say that the Outer Limits episode was actually based on Tommyknockers, though. (P.S. please sign your posts so we can know who you are and when you posted your comment - I have no idea if I'm answering something new or something five years old here) Chaoticfluffy (talk) 21:04, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible Trivia Entry

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message: King said he was partly inspired by H.P. Lovecraft; has he ever said that this specific novel was inspired by "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"?  Both stories concern the people of a small New England town being transformed by an "alien" taint, with the one remaining human (James Gardener/Zadok Allen) being dismissed as a harmless drunkard.  Or is it likely to be a coincidence? Dave-ros 22:16, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another inspiration? 

message: Yeah... who put all those "original research" tags on the section with the connections to King's other books? Because I do not think it means what you think it means.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.73.64.150 (talk) 13:52, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems pretty clear to me: "facts, allegations, ideas, and stories—for which no reliable published source exists" WP:NOR. To make it a bit clearer, assume it means the alleged connections are unsourced. Yes, you can show that book A says "X" and that book B says "Y". However, saying that "X" relates to "Y" is an idea for which there is no reliable published source. The tags have been there since May 2011. Two months is plenty of time. The section is due to go. - SummerPhD (talk) 20:27, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Original Research"