Everyone has tried to fear something. Whether it’s the man walking right behind you in the middle of the night or the dolls in your sister’s room. We are easily affected by everything we see, hear, read, and experience. A funny comedy can make an angry old cat lady laugh her lungs out, as well as a creepy horror story can make even the most rational man sleepless night after night. And exactly that is Stephen King or “The king of horror’s” specialty. His talent is clearly expressed in the spine-chilling horror story “The Boogeyman” from 1978.
The story takes place in the phycologist Dr. Harper’s office. A man named Lester Billings describes the ‘murders’ of his three young children. Billings claims that a terrifying monster who lives in his closet named “The Boogeyman” killed all his children one at a time. But the police and doctors diagnosed the deaths as respectively ‘crib death’ and ‘convulsions’
Lester Billings is the main character in the short story. He is a 28-year-old man and works for an industrial firm in New York while he lives in Waterbury, Connecticut. He is divorced and has three children who all died under mysterious circumstances. From Dr. Harper’s perspective Billings is a charmless old-looking man with thinning hair and pale skin. Suggested by the sentence: “His eyes held all the miserable secrets of whisky” (p. 1), Billings looks like, or is an alcoholic. He isn’t feeling well and maybe drinks his pain away, but now he finally seeks professional help.
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