The characters / Recurring character
Johnny Smith
Johnny Smith is recorded in 4 distinct storys.
The Dead Zone follows Johnny Smith; Needful Things recalls his discovery of the Castle Rock killer at the town bandstand. The Tommyknockers recalls the same psychic ability to read objects through touch. The Dead Zone’s John/Johnny Smith is explicitly identified by his coma, psychic ability, Cleaves Mills teaching and exposure of Frank Dodd. The generic obituary name in Obits is excluded.
Also recorded as John Smith.
Stories and supporting passages
Cujo
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A good man named John Smith uncovered his name by a kind of magic, but before he could be captured - perhaps it was just as well - Frank Dodd killed himself.
Cujo explicitly credits John Smith’s unusual ability with identifying murderer Frank Dodd.
Needful Things
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She kicked them aside as a bolt of lightning struck down on the Town Common, blowing the bandstand, where a tormented young man named Johnny Smith had once discovered the name of a killer, to flaming matchwood. Now the wind began to blow harder, whipping the trees against the dark, racing sky.
Reviewed narrative excerpt refers to this character; this evidence establishes a mention.
The Dead Zone
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Prologue 1 By the time he graduated from college, John Smith had forgotten all about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953.
The prologue identifies John Smith’s childhood fall and later college graduation.
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Chuck grinned at him. “Get outta here, kid, I hear your mother callin you.” Grinning, six-year-old Johnny Smith skated on. And on the road side of the skating area, he saw Timmy Benedix himself coming down the slope, with his father behind him. “Timmy!” he shouted. “Watch this!”
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The Tommyknockers
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In the course of a conversation with the bartender, he heard the story of a fellow named John Smith, who had taught in the nearby town of Cleaves Mills for a while. Smith had been in a coma for years, had awakened with some sort of psychic gift.
The bartender’s account links Smith’s coma, psychic powers and Cleaves Mills teaching.
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Around two-thirty that afternoon, Bright suddenly began to think of another Johnny—poor, damned Johnny Smith, who had sometimes touched objects and gotten “feelings” about them. That had been crazy, too, but Bright had believed Johnny Smith, had believed in what Smith said he could do.
Reviewed narrative excerpt refers to this character; this evidence establishes a mention.