Dreamcatcher (novel)/Trivia

Trivia about  includes:

"Rolling Stone: Is The Tommyknockers the one book in your catalog you think you botched? Stephen King: Well, I don’t like Dreamcatcher very much. Dreamcatcher was written after the accident. [In 1999, King was hit by a van while taking a walk and left severely injured.] I was using a lot of Oxycontin for pain. And I couldn’t work on a computer back then because it hurt too much to sit in that position. So I wrote the whole thing longhand. And I was pretty stoned when I wrote it, because of the Oxy, and that’s another book that shows the drugs at work."
 * Canon Welding: Takes place in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, the site of previous King novels IT and Insomnia. At one point a character comes across a memorial written by the Loser's Club from IT. Scrawled on it in graffiti is "PENNYWISE LIVES''.
 * Old Shame: Stephen King compared Dreamcatcher to The Tommyknockers when interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine in 2014.

- Stephen King: The Rolling Stone Interview, October 31, 2014

"Perlmutter had read Heart of Darkness, had seen Apocalypse Now, and had on many occasions thought that the name Kurtz was simply a little too convenient. He would have bet a hundred dollars (a great sum for a non-wagering artistic fellow such as himself) that it wasn’t the boss’s real name-that the boss’s real name was Arthur Holsapple or Dagwood Elgart, maybe even Paddy Maloney. Kurtz? Unlikely. It was almost surely an affectation, as much a prop as George Patton’s pearl-handled .45."
 * Shout-Out:
 * Kurtz is named after the character Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness. Lampshaded with a comment that it's probably not his real name and probably something that he decided to call himself.


 * The government nickname for the alien fungus is "The Ripley" after Sigourney Weaver's character from the Alien movies.
 * Jonesy is also the name of Ripley's cat from Alien.