Bag of Bones or Stephen King's Bag of Bones, is an American Gothic horror television miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's 1998 novel of the same name. Directed by Mick Garris from Matt Venne's screenplay, it was first aired in 2011 on the A&E Network in two parts. When broadcast on Channel 5 on 29 December 2012, it was shown as a single 162-min film.
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Mike Noonan is a best-selling novelist who lives happily with his wife, Johanna "Jo" Noonan. During a book signing, Jo is hit by a bus while crossing the street from a nearby pharmacy. As she dies in his arms, Mike notices that Jo bought a pregnancy test, and assumes that she may have been having an affair as he had a low sperm count and was unable to conceive. Overcome by grief, Mike develops a case of writer's block. He suffers a series of nightmares about his wife and their summer home on Dark Score Lake in Maine. On advice from his brother, Sid, Mike takes a trip to the summer house.
Once there, he meets a young widow named Mattie Devore and her 6-year-old daughter, Kyra. Befriending them, he earns the ire of Mattie's estranged father-in-law Max Devore. Max has been trying to get custody of Kyra since Mattie shot his son Lance (Lance was trying to drown the child). Despite the turmoil, Mike begins to write again, but visions and nightmares lead him to believe he is not alone. He finds that his wife's spirit is with him. He also detects the spirit of a 1930s singer named Sara Tidwell who plays records of her music. Sara also appears in dreams that Mike has of her last day alive in 1939. During his stay at the lake, Mike learns about "Dark Score Crazy," an apparent form of madness that caused several men in the town to murder their daughters by drowning them.