Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital

Artist Peter Rickman is run down by a stoned, two-time loser driving a minivan. He is admitted comatose to Kingdom Hospital, but not before encountering a frightening, ghostly figure whose mission is to use him to rid the hospital of malevolence, both human and inhuman, and to free its nine-year old mistress, Mary, from the hospitals haunted halls. When he awakens in an altered state with newfound but not necessarily welcome telepathic powers, Rickman finds he can communicate with the spirits, good and evil, man and beast, inhabiting the hospital.

After seeing a girl and finding a toy doll in the elevator shaft, Dr. Hook is convinced to help Druse stay in the hospital while she finds the source of the haunting. Meanwhile, a prisoner and his girlfriend plan out a suicide pact that goes wrong when he is saved by the Kingdom Hospital staff, in a not so common fashion. We also learn that Dr. Stegman killed a patient while in surgery at his last job in Boston, and is now being accused of messing up another surgery with a young girl. The mother now has plans to sue for malpractice. And finally, Peter Rickman is visited in his mind by the beast in his painting, and also comes in contact with Mary and Paul.

The psychic Mrs. Druse is called to assist when the trapped evil spirit of a tortured teenaged boy wreaks havoc on the staff, patients and innocent spirits inhabiting Kingdom Hospital. Meanwhile Dr. Hook forges a relationship of the mortal variety.

Still unable to speak, Peter gets a message to Dr. Hook and Mrs. Druse that a very dark presence within Kingdom Hospital is channeling his evil through a hallucinating alcoholic and pyromaniac to harm patients, staff and their most powerful spiritual allies, Mary and Antibus. And Dr. Stegmans unethical medical practices and questionable past begin to haunt him at every turn.

When a retired major league baseball player attempts to take his own life and is admitted to Kingdom Hospital, he begins a chain reaction that opens up some horrific old wounds and reverses history for those -- living and dead -- who inhabit the hospital.

When two different patients have seizures, they awaken to frightening visions of the living dead haunting Kingdom Hospitals halls, and the reverberations from Mona Klingermans seizure brings Dr. Stegmans worst nightmares to the surface.

The future of Kingdom Hospital is changed forever when Dr. Hook and Peter are sent back to the Old Kingdom, where they find the answers to the secrets of the Gates Falls Mills fire.