Scariest Stephen King character?

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booklover72

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Big Jim Rennie because he is insidious an evil mind and has a passion for power. if he had the power he wanted Dale and Julia would probably be shot. Freud said: sex and money are all people are interested in. i would add power. i mean power over peoples a dictator if you will with power comes the sex and money and control.

Brady Hartfield - he is psychotic, intelligent and without conscience. dangerous attributes. likes to play mind games. instead of the hunted(hartfield) being chased by the hunter(kermit) it is the hunted who becomes the hunter.

Give me straker any day. or pennywise or flagg. or jim morrison (wha) just making sure you read this=D
 

taylor29

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Rose in Dr. Sleep has a few psychotic issues she needs to work out. An Mad Hatter with a snaggle tooth comes to mind.

Also, those hedge animals in The Shining still creep me out.
 
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have met so many people who remind me of his characters... guess this country is called downunder for reasons..

only book or movie I've ever read or seen that I could not finish (2horrifying) was Pet. Cemetery do not try to read this book during 1st pregnancy! Think I had 2 kids b4 I finished it.
 

rudiroo

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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.
Desperation hurls you straight into hell - no exposition.
That's scary enough & CE just compounds the horror.
 

rudiroo

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Too many to count, but a selection:
- Tom Rogan (It) made me want to knock him into next week (not sure if that counts as scary)
- Zack McCool (Lisey's Story) as above
- Jack Torrance (The Shining) because a man in the grip of the grain or grape is truly a scary person, borderline 'thing'
- That car (From a Buick 8) is scary by definition.

Sleep well, folks