The Crimson King has sent Atropos to manipulate Deepneau as part of a plan to upset the entire order of the universe. Ralph and Lois learn of the " Crimson King," a shape-shifting higher-dimensional villain who feeds on fear and grief and craves chaos to rule over. Ed Deepneau is one of a few very rare beings who is not assigned to either force and can, therefore, greatly change existence. Ralph and Lois learn that life is largely governed by "The Purpose" and "The Random," forces or entities which are not enemies so much as opposites. A third bald doctor, Atropos, is a crazed rogue who seems to delight in disrupting lives and prematurely ending them. Ralph and Lois encounter two bald doctors, calling themselves Clotho and Lachesis, who act with dignity and free people from life when it is "their time" to pass away. Ralph's friend Lois Chasse admits to him that she too has recently begun seeing auras which she can interpret. He realizes that Ed Deepneau also sees these things. He gradually concludes these are not hallucinations but genuine things present on a different level of reality. As his insomnia develops, Ralph begins to see things invisible and intangible to others: colorful manifestations of life-force surrounding people ( auras), and diminutive white-coated beings he calls "little bald doctors," based on their appearance.
Ralph begins to suffer from sleep maintenance insomnia, waking earlier each night until he is barely able to sleep an hour each night. Months later, Helen leaves Ed and hides at a women's shelter. Some months later, Ralph (now a widower) encounters Ed's wife Helen who has been badly beaten by her husband after having signed a pro-choice related petition. Ed is aggressive and swearing obscenely at a driver he accuses of secretly transporting fetal tissue from abortions. Retiree Ralph Roberts encounters his formerly good-natured acquaintance Ed Deepneau at the local airfield. The story is set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. It includes connections to other Stephen King stories, particularly his novel series The Dark Tower. Like It and Dreamcatcher, the story is set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine. It follows retired widower Ralph Roberts whose increasing insomnia allows him to perceive auras and other hidden things, leading him to join a conflict between the forces of the Purpose and the Random.
Insomnia is a 1994 horror/ fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King.
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