The car even has a knack for paranormal body work: King has written several stories about sentient vehicles, but none more chilling than his tale of a 1957 Plymouth Fury that lives up to its name. Cujo howled in pain and she thought, He must draw back now, he must, he MUST, but Cujo drove forward instead and his jaws closed on her lower thigh, just above her knee and with one quick ripping motion he pulled a chunk out of her. This time the door closed on his neck and head, and she heard a crunching sound. She timed it and brought the door toward her again, using all of her failing strength. Cujo (1981)Īnimal lovers beware-King's rabid dog shows no mercy in Cujo, which sees the titular canine corner helpless victims of his boundless rage: The mouth and cheeks and throat were lathered in blood, the single eye she could see was tiny and piggish and glittering.” 3. Half of a crazed and working face stared in at her. “The mallet smashed into the bathroom door, knocking out a huge chunk of the thin paneling.

The passage in which Wendy Torrance braces herself for an attack by her husband, Jack, is guaranteed to send chills down your spine: The Shining (1977)Īt the snowbound Overlook Hotel, the Torrance family is forced to deal with a newly-homicidal patriarch. I just counted backward from one hundred … twenty or thirty times! Ha! Ha!

All through the operation I was drooling. “I’ve amputated my left foot and have bandaged it with my pants. In “Survivor Type,” from Skeleton Crew, a surgeon stranded and hungry after a plane crash makes a lifesaving decision on dinner in a passage that will likely cost you your appetite: Take a look at 11 of his creepiest passages. The author of classics like 1974’s Carrie, 1986’s It, and dozens of others has become the standard-bearer for horror fiction. Few writers have unsettled the collective nerves of readers more than Stephen King.

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