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Plot summary. 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.
- United States
- Night Shift
- 1978
- Doubleday
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. All ...
"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...
1. Juni 2023 · Slate Book Review. Horror. Stephen King. “The Boogeyman” is just one of the short stories in the 1978 collection that cemented Stephen King’s status as the master of horror.
1. März 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. The atmospheric writing and the vivid descriptions make you feel the children's terror as the dark entity lurking in the shadows of the closets starts ...
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31. Mai 2023 · The sixth story in King’s first collection, “The Boogeyman” recounts the therapy session from hell. Lester Billings meets with Dr. Harper to unburden his conscience by telling the harrowing...
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.
