Publisher's Summary The battle against evil has begun in this "devishly entertaining" ( Publishers Weekly ) story of a suburban neighborhood in the grip of surreal terror - a number-one national best seller from Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman. Peaceful suburbia on Poplar Street in Wentworth, Ohio, takes a turn for the ugly when four vans containing armed "regulators" terrorize the street's residents, cold-bloodedly killing anyone foolish enough to step outside their homes. Houses mysteriously transform into log cabins, and the street now ends in what looks like a child's hand-drawn Western landscape. Masterminding this sudden onslaught is the evil creature Tak, who has taken over the body of an autistic eight-year-old boy, Seth Garin. "A rip-roaringly violent thriller whose main action takes place in little more than an hour and a half" ( Booklist ), The Regulators features an introduction by Stephen King on "The Importance of Being Bachman". ©1996 Richard Bachman. All rights reserved. (P)2016 Simon & Schuster, Inc.