Headmaster Ardai tells them that they are holding the zombies prisoner, because the zombies will not awaken unless their surrounding boomboxes stop playing music. Gaiten Academy, semewhere in rural New England, Jordan and Alice become worried about the close proximity of the zombie flock which have decided to spend the night on the campus grounds. When four of the survivors of the Pulse Virus, Clay, Alice, Jordan, Tom, and Headmaster Charles Ardai take refuge at Ironically, the Raggedy Man ultimately perishes when Jordan sets off a bomb installed on a school bus in the Kashwak Carnival the very same base which the Raggedy Man has been using to convert humans into zombies. After the novel's protagonists Clay, Tom, Alice, Jordan and Gaiten's Headmaster destroy a sleeping flock of undead which are in the campus grounds, the Raggedy Man labels the protagonists as 'insane' and warns other zombies and humans generally not to touch them.

The main agenda of the Raggedy Man is to spread his army of zombies around the planet and convert as many humans as he possibly can to his hordes to swell his increasing army of the undead. He is first encountered by the human survivors at Gaiten Academy in New England and is seen following them several times towards the end of the novel.

Unlike the other zombies seen in the novel, he does not levitate. His main power of choice seems to be telepathy. He possesses a vast amount of near-supernatural powers, reputed to be the sealed-off areas of the human brain which ' The Pulse' unlocked. He is one of the more complicated zombies in the novel, retaining many of his human characteristics and bordering on near-human to absolutely insane. The Raggedy Man often shows up with an army of zombies at his tail he seems to be a sort of spokesman for the zombie hordes. He is one of the zombies which are created due to the virus which is known to the survivors of humanity as 'The Pulse'. Serving as the main antagonist of the novel Cell, and it's film adaptation of the same name.

The Raggedy Man is a supporting antagonist of the Stephen King multiverse.

Cell by Stephen King