Welcome to TIME. com, or, as we're calling it at the moment, Stephen King Central. We cover the news here at TIME.com, but sometimes we make news — and we're doing that with this exclusive excerpt of King's powerful new novel, "Dreamcatcher." I'm as proud to excerpt Stephen King as newspaper editors of the 19th century must have felt to run serializations by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. Indeed, Stephen King is an American literary giant, and his books are as rich with the texture of contemporary American life as Twain's. TIME.com will run three consecutive excerpts on March 5, 12 and 19 leading up to the publication of the book on March 20.

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