tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175798629534874434.post6237189967308942446..comments2024-03-03T23:03:20.977-08:00Comments on Talk Stephen King: How Stephen King Will Mess With Your HeadUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175798629534874434.post-3126113842114328012014-04-03T12:49:39.346-07:002014-04-03T12:49:39.346-07:00When I was 15 the first SK book I read was Salem&#...When I was 15 the first SK book I read was Salem's Lot--on account of the killer Tobe Hooper made-for-TV movie. <br /><br />The scenes of the kid vampire scratching at the window....man that really creeped me out. Then the scene at the Marsten House, where (is it Hubie? Hubert?) old man Marsten is hung from a noose, when suddenly his eyes pop wide open. That scared me, and stuck with me. <br /><br />Of course towards the end of Salem's Lot, things get uber terrifying, what with all the townsfolk waking slowly up from their root cellars . . . yeah, that book really gave me the creeps. So it was love at first sight, with SK. <br /><br />The Shining came next. Same thing, just one terrifying scene after: the fire hose serpent . . . the animal topiary . . . in particular, that scene that Kubrick left out of the movie for God knows what reason, where young Danny crawls into the pipe amid the leaves and darkness . . . and then what about the scene of Danny being barked at by a grown man in a doggie suit. . . that is scary stuff for impressionable young minds. <br /><br />The Boogey Man from Night Shift got me so terrified while reading it alone in my bedroom at night, that I couldn't turn the lights off or keep the door open! I kept imagining those claws scraping along the stairs bannister up towards my room on the second floor.... I can't recall if I actually had any nightmares from these delicious reading terrors, and that's probably for the best. shaunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14054968054917843198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175798629534874434.post-34870747820823819192014-04-01T23:10:50.383-07:002014-04-01T23:10:50.383-07:00I once dreamed I was running down the stair of my ...I once dreamed I was running down the stair of my high school being chased by Pennywise! In my dream, I never turn around to see him, but I know it's It (he makes the familiar sounds I've come to associate with the character).<br /><br />ChrisCPrisonerNumber6https://www.blogger.com/profile/03156430802462353459noreply@blogger.com