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The Journals of Eleanor Druse: My Investigation of the Kingdom Hospital Incident

por Eleanor Druse

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'Dear Stephen King, I am writing to you because I know you are a true believer in the world of spirits, that your had a near death experience similar to mine, and because you are a fellow Mainer. My name is Eleanor Druse...' Experimental psychologist and academic Eleanor Druse has had a lifelong interest in the paranormal. Then in 1999, her interest took an intensely personal turn when she suffered a serious head trauma in a road accident that resulted in a Near Death Experience. Since then it would seem Eleanor has acquired the disturbing ability to communicate with the dead... And her interest in this inconclusive world of shadows has become an obsession, prompted by what seems to be happening at Kingdom Hospital - the regional medical centre of her home town of Lewiston, Maine. It's an ultra-modern establishment, a centre of excellence, but it sits on the site of an old textile mill that burned to the ground in 1869. Dozens of workers, mostly child labourers, were trapped underground and perished in the inferno. Somewhere beneath the modern hospital, Eleanor Druse believes ineffable evil still lurks. She believes the 'distressed spirit' of a child is somehow trapped there, unable to find peace. She feigns illnesses that ensure she is readmitted to the hospital in order to investigate the increasingly strange goings-on there. She wants to make contact with the ghost girl - Mary Jensen - who is calling out to her from the hereafter, and there are those with vested interests who want to stop her. But something strange and disturbing is going on at Kingdom Hospital, something evil that modern science cannot explain away...… (mais)
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The newly built Kingdom Hospital in Lewiston, Maine, is one of the most technologically advanced hospitals in the country - a truly remarkable edifice known for its esteemed doctors and ground-breaking medical advancements. Eleanor Druse is called to Kingdom Hospital on a snowy night in December, at the behest of her childhood friend, Madeline Krueger. Madeline had attempted suicide and Eleanor's name was mentioned in the note that she had written that had been found near her.

The night that Eleanor arrives at the Kingdom - Friday, December 13th - is the night Madeline dies and Eleanor herself has a near death experience. Now a patient at the Kingdom, Eleanor is determined to discover the dark secrets of the Kingdom - secrets which may in fact have their roots in the request Madeline Krueger printed at the bottom of her note: 'Sally, the little girl who saved us has survived the fire but she is still lost in the lair of the living.' Madeline signed the note November 2, 1939.

Eleanor's memories of that specific date are somewhat cloudy. She and Madeline had been patients in the children's ward on November 2, 1939, both suffering from whooping cough at the time. November 2, 1939 was also the date the hospital known as the 'Old Kingdom' was razed by a mysterious fire which killed a doctor and a 15-year-old boy who was undergoing treatment.

Eleanor's further investigations uncover an even darker history surrounding Kingdom Hospital: it had been erected on the site of a terrible tragedy - a textile mill burned to the ground on November 2, 1869 - killing dozens of workers, mostly children. And it appears that beneath the sheen of the new construction and scientific innovations of the Kingdom, an indecipherable and primal evil lurks - and the soul of a trapped and helpless child cries out for solace.

I remember reading this book sometime in 2005, I believe. 'Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital' was broadcast between March 3 and July 15, 2004 and I watched every episode except one. That ignited my interest in reading the book the miniseries was based on, so I went to the library when I could and checked out this book as soon as it was available. I give this book an A!

I had wanted to review this book much earlier than now, but I could never find another copy until I looked the title up on Paperback Swap and was able to get a copy for myself. I have noticed that 'Eleanor Druse' has been attributed as being a pen name for Stephen King, but I believe that the author behind 'Eleanor Druse' is actually Richard Dooling - who co-wrote and produced the 2004 miniseries - and is himself the author of four books. ( )
  rubyandthetwins | Aug 8, 2017 |
This is a tie in with the Kingdom Hospital mini-series which aired a few years ago. It's a prequel to the series as it is the journals of Sally Druse prior to the mini-series starting.

She has sent her journals of the events to author Stephen King. In it she details strange happenings in the hospital. From hearing a little girl crying and the ringing of a bell. A strange jackal or anteater type animal that is in attendance with a young girl during a procedure she, Mrs. Druse, has back in the late 1930s. The creepy old Dr that we see during the run of the mini-series.

Fun read and great tie in to the mini-series. Is a great character study. Nice easy read finished in a few hours. ( )
  ChrisWeir | Apr 20, 2014 |
Eleanor 'Sally' Druse's musings got on my nerves sometimes (her expressed admiration of Stephen King made me cringe because Mr. King is the real writer), but I wish I had read this book before I watched the Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital mini-series.

The Legend of Hell House movie didn't seem that scary until I watched it after reading the book on which it was based, Hell House by Richard Matheson, and I knew what the movie could only hint about. Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey didn't seem funny until I'd reread it after reading Seven Masterpieces of Gothic Horror, so I knew what Ms. Austen had so perfectly poked fun at. Just so, I would have enjoyed the Kingdom Hospital mini-series more with this background information (that is, it wouldn't have seemed so sloooow to get to the good stuff).

Sally Druse's character has more depth. Her childhood history with the hospital that existed before the current one was horrifying. The explanation for why the evil doctor has a scar and why a nasty boy who probably would have grown up to be a career criminal or even a serial killer makes sense. There's a scene with the insufferable Dr. Stegman character that I thoroughly enjoyed because it served him right. Pity that the action Sally takes to help the parents of a victim of one of Dr. Stegman's botched brain surgeries is going to come back to figuratively haunt her.

Fair warning for potential readers who haven't seen the mini-series: only my memory of its Dark Secret kept me from being frustrated by the lack of revelation about the death of the little girl ghost, not to mention a resolution, in this book. It and the mini-series should be taken together.

Notes:

1. St. Dymphna is the patron saint of the nervous and the emotionally disturbed.

2. Yes, that's 'Lovecraft Pest Control'. *snicker* [H. P. Lovecraft was a famous horror writer.]

3. 'Consumption' is the old name for tuberculosis.

4. Sally and her friend had 'whooping cough' [pertussis] in 1939, before a vaccine was readily available. There were not many antibiotics available either. Even now babies who get whooping cough might die. It can also cause seizures or brain damage. According to 'The History of Pertussis (Whooping Cough); 1906–2015: Facts, Myths, and Misconceptions' by James D. Cherry, published in 'Current Epidemiology Reports' v.2, pp. 120-130, 09 April 2015 (available online), whooping cough does not cause fever or coughing up mucus. This article, of course, would not have been available to Mr. King when he wrote this book.

Listening to this book again seven years later, I have to admit that if I didn't already know from the series that Eleanor 'Sally' Druse was correct about the hospital being haunted, I'd consider her one of the irritating versions of New Age believers that show up in cozy mystery series. The book does a nice job of having the medical characters come up with plausible reasons for what Mrs. Druse experiences. Her own son, hospital orderly Bobby Druse, thinks she's getting senile.

Listening to this book again in 2022, our heroine sounds as if she's lucky this book takes place from 2 November 2002 - 2 November 2003, before the internet was as big as it is now. She'd probably be being dismissed as one of those persons who believe every conspiracy theory they read online. ( )
  JalenV | Nov 16, 2013 |
Having a little fun with his readers, Stephen King has created a fictional character who acts as both author and narrator named Eleanor Druse. Written as though it were her diary which was then turned over to Stephen King, Eleanor Druse tells about her life and her interest in the paranormal. She is called to the bedside of a childhood friend named Madeline Kruger. Madeline was brought in after attempted suicide and she was in the psych ward on 24 hour watch. In her ramblings she is calling out for Eleanor Druse although they haven't been close since they were children. Eleanor goes to the hospital to comfort her old friend but when she and the nurse come to the bed, somehow Madeline has killed herself with an ice pick (how she acquired the ice pick and did this under 24 hour watch is stretching the reader's imagination too far) anh her wounds are filled with black ants. Poor Eleanor Druse faints and hits her head on the hard marble floors of the room. Her head injury nearly proved fatal but she makes it back after her near death experience only to be told by her doctors that her spiritual experiences while dying were just from some type of seizure caused by the head injury. But she knows it's something more and intends to investigate. It seems that the old Kingdom Hospital (where Madeline killed herself and where Druse had her head injury) has quite a history. The original hospital was built on the same site as a textile mill that burned to the ground after the Civil War, which killed many children working in the basements. The Gottreich's had built the Gottreich Hospital at the site. But that hospital had also burned to the ground which ended in the death of Dr. Gottreich and a young male patient. The Kingdom Hospital was built over those ruins. Does any of this have anything to do with the mysterious death of Madeline Kruger, the near death experience of Eleanor Druse and the following events? Will Eleanor be able to remember what she has repressed in her own past about the hospital? Can she saves the others?

Personally, I thought the book was silly. It was an easy and fast read but it didn't hold water if you know what I mean. I have a good imagination but this was a little too hard to imagine. ( )
  Mom25dogs | Jan 11, 2009 |
Evidently Steven King, writting as E.Druse.
Easy reading, somewhat creepy; the horror to me was the true descriptions of medical procedures and how we are not seen as sentient beings by the majority of doctors who are supposed to be caring and compassionate. ( )
  sogamonk | Oct 4, 2008 |
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'Dear Stephen King, I am writing to you because I know you are a true believer in the world of spirits, that your had a near death experience similar to mine, and because you are a fellow Mainer. My name is Eleanor Druse...' Experimental psychologist and academic Eleanor Druse has had a lifelong interest in the paranormal. Then in 1999, her interest took an intensely personal turn when she suffered a serious head trauma in a road accident that resulted in a Near Death Experience. Since then it would seem Eleanor has acquired the disturbing ability to communicate with the dead... And her interest in this inconclusive world of shadows has become an obsession, prompted by what seems to be happening at Kingdom Hospital - the regional medical centre of her home town of Lewiston, Maine. It's an ultra-modern establishment, a centre of excellence, but it sits on the site of an old textile mill that burned to the ground in 1869. Dozens of workers, mostly child labourers, were trapped underground and perished in the inferno. Somewhere beneath the modern hospital, Eleanor Druse believes ineffable evil still lurks. She believes the 'distressed spirit' of a child is somehow trapped there, unable to find peace. She feigns illnesses that ensure she is readmitted to the hospital in order to investigate the increasingly strange goings-on there. She wants to make contact with the ghost girl - Mary Jensen - who is calling out to her from the hereafter, and there are those with vested interests who want to stop her. But something strange and disturbing is going on at Kingdom Hospital, something evil that modern science cannot explain away...

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