Word: bedstead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...house in Maine. Jessie Burlingame agrees to let her husband Gerald try a little bedtime bondage, but somewhere along the line he gets nasty -- and so does she, dispensing a vicious kick that leads to a fatal heart attack. Here lies Gerald, and so does Jessie, cuffed to the bedstead as a mad dog scratches at the door. Meanwhile, her mind and memory play hideous tricks, as the ghosts of her sexually abused childhood rise up to terrorize her. This is the old Helpless Woman in the Haunted House number, but refreshed by a combination King has rarely used before...