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The story takes place in the office of Dr. Harper, a psychiatrist, where a man named Lester Billings talks to the doctor about the "murders" of his three young children, describing the events of the past several years.
The Boogeyman – Stephen King. 'I came to you because I want to tell my story,' the man on Dr Harper's couch was saying. The man was Lester Billings from Waterbury, Connecticut. According to the history taken from Nurse Vickers, he was twenty-eight, employed by an industrial firm in New York, divorced, and the father of three children.
1 giu 2023 · “The Boogeyman” is just one of the short stories in the 1978 collection that cemented Stephen King’s status as the master of horror.
"The Boogeyman" is a short story written by Stephen King. The story was originally published in the March 1973 issue of Cavalier and was later included in King's own 1978 short story collection Night Shift. The majority of the story takes place in a psychiatrist's office, where a man comes to...
Plot Analysis. In most cultures, a boogeyman (also bogeyman) is a mythical creature used by adults to frighten children into good behavior. There is little evidence of Lester’s children being guilty of really bad behavior, although they did cry regularly at night and Denny was wetting the bed in the few weeks before he died.
Short Story by Isak Dinesen. A recently married nineteen-year-old woman’s innocent, child-like view of the world is shattered by a chance encounter with a man covered in blood who is on the run for theft and murder. The triggers a re-evaluation of her naïve views on life and marriage.
1 mar 1973 · 'The Boogeyman', collected in Stephen King's short story collection 'Night Shift', is a creepy tale that is best recommended to read in the dark before dozing off for the night.
