When a man crashes his car into a petrol station, he brings with him the foul corpses of his wife and daughter. He dies and it doesn`t take long for the plague which killed him to spread across America and the world.

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American writer of contemporary horror fiction, science fiction, fantasy literature, and screenplays. More than 350 million copies of King's novels and short story collections have been sold, and many of his stories have been adapted for film, television, and other media. King has written a number of books using the pen name Richard Bachman, and one short story, "The Fifth Quarter", as John Swithen.