
The novelization uses the "In Water" ending, while the canon ending of the game is ambiguous.It is unknown if this really happened, or is a dying hallucination as James never comments on it in the novelization. The dogs tear at his flesh and rip him to pieces. Eddie notes they are all the same as the dog he killed back in his hometown. In the novelization, as Eddie dies, a pack of four large dogs gather, ripping at his torn stomach, pulling out his intestines.A different and expanded version of the Legend of the Lake article is found by James in the novelization.In the novelization, in room 307, James doesn't hear Pyramid Head's footsteps after he shoots at him, and for James, it looked like Pyramid Head disappeared "like smoke".No scene with the corpse sitting in front of the TV occurs in room 208 in the novel.In the game, James initially marks Rosewater Park as a place where he thought he would meet Mary, and the apartment building was considered as a passage to another part of the town. In the novel, James thought that Mary could wait for him in the Wood Side Apartment building.In the novel, Wood Side Apartments has a plate with its name.In the novel, James doesn't encounter any Creepers.



A red demon restlessly looms in the shadows. "I'll be waiting for you in our ‘special place’." Could Mary really be waiting in Silent Hill? In this town that holds far too many memories? There are many suspicious people there including Maria, a mysterious woman who resembles his late wife. He received a letter from his beloved wife. The front cover uses the cover from the Japanese version of Silent Hill 2.
