This book is a compilation of twenty short stories, for that reason we only chose one to talk about, “The Boogeyman”.It's a narrative story and Stephen King doesn’t take part in it. Lester Billings a 28 year old man went to the psychiatrist, Dr. Harper, because his first two children died mysteriously of apparently unrelated causes when left alone in their bedrooms. The only link to their deaths is a crack in the closet door that the protagonist is certain he had closed when he left his children. It soon becomes apparent that whatever had killed the first two children has managed to track down the protagonist's new house, and after a brief period of lingering in the closets, this creature (which is now identified as the boogeyman) attacks the protagonist's son. The story all happens in a sad and monotonous tone and it is developed with the aid of a flashback, since he is talking about what had happened to his children. The majority of the story takes place in a psychiatrist's office, where a man comes to talk about the "murders" of his three young children over a full hour. The story takes an amazing turn as the man finishes his story, the psychiatrist recommends another appointment for further discussion, but upon entering the lobby, the protagonist finds it deserted. Returning to the room in which he told his story, the protagonist finds the psychiatrist taking off a mask to reveal that he is in fact the boogeyman that had killed his children
The end.
André Oliveira e João Silva - 11ºG
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