Scariest Stephen King character?

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jfra3101

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I've said before, books don't scare me, so if I had to pick one I'd say mordred gave me the creeps, especially in spider form.
I'm similar... A book never seems to scare me so much - I don't jump or look away or anything like that which I do for a movie. However, I do have the tendency to simply close my book (Pet Sematary rings a bell) and just think ask myself 'what the hell? What have I just read?' So yeah, books tend to make me more uncomfortable just because you get a more descriptive view of it, not just what you see on a screen. Being a huge horror fan, I don't tend to get scared too often anyways, just creeped out by the unknown...
 

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Collie Entragian in Desperation struck a very scary note for me, due in part I think to how I personally identify with police harassment. I was something of a counter-culture teen in the mid-late 60s, and "Establishment" police were minions of the archenemy, and to be feared. Entragian is this concept logarithmically. Also, I think his character is so scary because the reader has no Earthly idea wtf from the first "Tak!" forward 'til it's too late to become psychologically prepared; the terror just moves in so swiftly.
 

The Nameless

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...I don't view Trashy as evil, coz he was mental to start with...
Yeah I know, but the book is split into 2 camps - one good, one evil (at least the leaders anyway). Trashy follows flagg, I know he was manipulated by him, but he is still in "the bad guy camp"
even if he kind of accidentally comes good at the end.
 

blunthead

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Yeah I know, but the book is split into 2 camps - one good, one evil (at least the leaders anyway). Trashy follows flagg, I know he was manipulated by him, but he is still in "the bad guy camp"
even if he kind of accidentally comes good at the end.
Crazy can be scary, but Trashman wasn't scary to me in that kind of way. Annie Wilkes was a loon, and her kind of craziness made her terrifying.
 

jfra3101

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Patrick Hocksetter... because people like that give me worse nightmares than monsters ever could.
I agree, I really hated him! I thought he was hilarious when Beverley was watching him and Henry when they had the lighter, but I'd rather not talk about what they did after that... It just shows how disturbed he is, never mind his fridge!
 

booklover72

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I'm similar... A book never seems to scare me so much - I don't jump or look away or anything like that which I do for a movie. However, I do have the tendency to simply close my book (Pet Sematary rings a bell) and just think ask myself 'what the hell? What have I just read?' So yeah, books tend to make me more uncomfortable just because you get a more descriptive view of it, not just what you see on a screen. Being a huge horror fan, I don't tend to get scared too often anyways, just creeped out by the unknown...
i am the same, i got creeped out by Cell, the cat from hell and some other sories, i would'nt use my mobile for days. if you like to be scared, read James Herbert's 'The dark' i wouldn't leave my light off after i read it. i have been a horror fan from a teenager, SK, JH Clive barker. There is another author, loved the book 'The Cermonies' pretty good. can't think of the name.
 

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Yeah I know, but the book is split into 2 camps - one good, one evil (at least the leaders anyway). Trashy follows flagg, I know he was manipulated by him, but he is still in "the bad guy camp"
even if he kind of accidentally comes good at the end.
...I understand where you're coming from, but Tom Cullen was manipulated by the "good guys" too and remained in the "Camp of the White"....
 

jfra3101

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Pennywise has, so far, (fingers crossed for fright) been the only one to "get" me, but I was intrigued by the yardsale painting in (forget name of not-totally-original short story) XXXXXXXXXXXX.

The whole alter-world in Lisey's was spooky, as was the bad-turn at the end of the Kennedy Kill book.[/QUOTE
I think your talking about The Road Virus Travels North? I agree with you on Lisey's Story - Boo'ya Moon was a hell of a creepy place to go!