Audrey is left alone with a monster who eats Chef Boyardee products, drinks chocolate milk, and watches a kids show called MotoKops 2200 and an old spaghetti western movie called The Regulators. After just a month, Tak forces Herb to commit suicide. Seth is taken in my his aunt Audrey and uncle Herb. Upon returning to their home town of Toledo, Ohio, The Garin family dies in a series of tragic accidents. Seth runs inside where Tak enters his mind apparently rendered susceptible by his autism. There, they get a tour of the mine – including the old China mine where Tak is imprisoned. Shocked by this miraculous development in Seth, the family heads to Desperation.
As they pass Desperation, Seth, who is usually silent and can only talk in short monosyllables, begins begging in full sentences to be taken to Desperation to see the mine there. The reader learns that Seth was traveling through the Nevada desert with his family when they passed the city of Desperation. This is where Tak has taken up suburban residence, brought here in the body of young Seth Garin, an eight year old boy afflicted with autism.
While the residents of Poplar Street cower in horror, Audrey Wyler lives in her own little hell contained within her home of Poplar Street. As they bullets fly, the other residents of Poplar Street take refuge in two houses. The neighborhood paperboy is the first to die, followed by suburban housewife, Mary Jackson, racing home from an afternoon delight session.
It’s a sunny summer afternoon in the bucolic suburb when three garishly painted vans make their way down Poplar Street and start shooting up the place. Released as a companion novel to Desperation, The Regulators takes the characters (or the character names) from Desperation and places them in the Columbus, Ohio suburb of Wentworth, and subjects them to Tak’s less than tender mercies. By Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)
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