I guess the most famous of these are Children of the Corn and Trucks, but I've seen Quitters Inc, Graveyard shift, The Magler, The Ledge, Battleground, Sometimes They Come Back, and two or three Lawnmower Man movies.
Reading your summaries brought back a lot of good memories for me. I remember being terrified of Children of the Corn and I loved Quitters Inc perhaps more than any other story in this collection.
But the one that got to me the most is one that you didn't care for. The Boogeyman scared the shit out of me. Not necessarily when I read it the first time, but after having kids and hearing them cry in the middle of the night...Jesus H!
Reading your summaries brought back a lot of good memories for me. I remember being terrified of Children of the Corn and I loved Quitters Inc perhaps more than any other story in this collection.
But the one that got to me the most is one that you didn't care for. The Boogeyman scared the shit out of me. Not necessarily when I read it the first time, but after having kids and hearing them cry in the middle of the night...Jesus H!
I was interested to read on Wikipedia that Children of the Corn had so many sequels. I only read about a few of them, but in one it looks like He Who Walks Behind The Rows was revealed to be a tentacle monster and one of the kids stabs it to death, so that's great. It makes me glad that King doesn't typically write sequels. Some things are better left at their best.
I could see The Boogeyman getting to a person more when hearing their own kids get scared of the dark, or of monsters in the closet, that sort of thing. You'd have to wonder, well, what if there really is a monster in the closet? What if I just can't see it? That's an angle I hadn't considered, being the barren, solitary, cold-hearted creature I am. Neat thought. King must have been a father himself by the time he wrote that one.
But I still don't get why it would pretend to be his psychologist.
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Nate reads Stephen King, Book 5: Night Shift
- 14/03/2012 04:18:33 AM
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Final Thoughts
- 14/03/2012 04:30:45 AM
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So many awful movies made from these stories.
- 14/03/2012 07:24:39 PM
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I haven't seen any of the movies from this one.
- 14/03/2012 08:06:10 PM
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I remember a few of these.
- 15/03/2012 01:08:31 AM
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I had read it once before too, long ago.
- 15/03/2012 08:58:22 PM
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I've read a lot of King short stories, but these don't seem familiar.
- 15/03/2012 10:20:53 PM
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I'm only fascist on weekends.
- 16/03/2012 03:57:21 AM
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