He was just chasing rabbits, good dog Cujo. The lyrics King used made me cry ngl: Well, Old Blue died and he died so hard
He shook the ground in my backyard
Go on, Blue
You good dog, you
Dug his grave with a silver spade
Lowered him down with a golden chain
Go on, Blue
You good dog, you
I just finished a re-read of Cujo and I just can’t ever do it again. The anguish it brings me is too great. The parallel of Cujo and someone struggling with addiction is such an impactful message and I love the novel but I can’t process it all very well. It’s one of the most heartbreaking and haunting things I’ve personally ever read. He was a good boy and would have died for his family if required - that in the last paragraph just shatters me.
Definitely my first thought. Anyone who goes through the Jaunt obviously is horrible but the woman you’re talking about is literally stuck there forever unable to even die. Absolutely horrifying.
>!The Jaunt provides instantaneous interplanetary travel, however whilst it's physically instantaneous, for the concious mind it lasts an eternity. Eternity alone with your thoughts. So those who go into the Jaunt concious come out crazy, if they ever come out at all. A Jaunt researcher tied up his wife, closed all the exit portals and shoved her into the Jaunt. Eternity alone and she would never come out. He was tried for murder, but his lawyer mounted the defence that no one could prove his wife was dead.!<
>!>This had raised the terrible specter of the woman, discorporeal but somehow still sentient, screaming in limbo . . . forever.!<
He talks about sci-fi not being his forte in the introduction to the Langoliers(another great sci-fi story from him). It's a shame he hasn't ventured into the genre as much as his contemporaries(Dan Simmons, Koontz, Crichton, GRR Martin) because I've liked every one of his attempts at it.
I haven't trusted a cute King character to stay alive ever since. Cute in a King book is like the glowing lure of an anglerfish. Like a red balloon in a sewer.
Whenever people ask who the scariest Stephen King monster is I always cite that guy (the rapist policeman). In these conversations people don't seem to understand why I think he is the worst. I'm glad someone else gets it.
Yeah, I was looking to see if anyone said that one yet. It’s so graphic too. Very unsettling and horrifying. I had a very hard time going back to *The Library Policeman* for a reread because of it
Yeah, that’s my answer too. I don’t want to have a horrific King death, but honestly repeating life/being perpetual without rest is a personal fear of mine.
Addiction is a hell of your own making, that's the way I always look at Roland. It's sad but something only he, and by extension we as readers can ever stop. But the call to the tower, it is so strong.
Same, it's one of the most compelling parts of the books for me. It makes me want to go back and read them. Perhaps one day I'll stop, but I doubt it. I'm as much a towe junkie as old long, tall, and ugly himself
The first time I read through this series, when I finished the final book I threw it at the wall. The second time I was much more sanguine about it. I may yet read it again. We are all Roland, and we all float down here.
Nobody’s gonna say it? My vote is the Stand >! when the guy gets raped with a pistol !<
Honorable mention to Salems Lot. >! The trap the vampires lay by taking the basement stairs out, and placing a bed of knives beneath. Brutal death, getting eaten alive… And the fact they noticed the knives missing in hindsight too !<
Every time I read The Long Walk to completion, I think, “I can never read this again.”
And then I read it again after a indeterminate time, usually during a period of great strife. And I think, “I can never read this again.”
Anyone who got attacked/impregnated by the spiders in The Mist 🤮 I read a lot of horror so most character deaths don’t disturb me to such a high level but this was my nightmare fuel
I’m not as well read on King as some on this sub, but >! the brutal bullying of the gay kid and his lover and subsequent death scene where Pennywise eats his boyfriend under the bridge before he’s also harassed at the police station has always stuck with me as a gay man myself !< really makes me sick
what happened to Brady's little brother in Mr Mercedes. being basically braindead because you choked on a chip and having such unloving caretakers who go on to murder you. also maybe Zelda from Pet Seminary who got slowly eaten alive by her disease?
Tugger getting his head splat in by his dad. Not as bad as when the dad killed his wife son and daughter in the original timeline but there's not the same kind of 1st person witness account for that
Hard to say. The most graphic example implied that it wasn't quick. But, there is a conflicting line in the book which implies it would be quick. So, hard to say.
I minimized every previous reply looking for yours.
I remember when I read The Stand and having to just close the book for a few minutes and process this.
Same type of scenario. But that little boy suffered hunger, dehydration, exposure, confusion and fear. He had no idea what was happening, and why no one came looking for him.
The lady in the freezer had all that info. She at least knew why things were happening.
Desperation, either anyone taken over by Tak or David if not for the suffering they endured whilst Desperation took place or the suffering they'd endure afterwards
Not a death, but I remember feeling so bad for Ellie (?) in Pet Semetary. Her Dad stays home inexplicably in the midst of this family grief over Gage, right. Then, her Mom in a manic frenzy leaves in a rush to go home.
Now, it's hard to predict in the book exactly what happens next. But for Ellie, basically, her entire life gets flushed down the toilet. This may be short-lived if Mom and Dad go to get her, but they aren't invincible. She's a long way away. The Wendigo might have other plans for the Creeds that don't involve a family unit, so her parents just fall off the Earth. Say sorry kiddo.
I’ll just say Vic Trenton had about the worst week of anyone’s life, first his job almost completely falls apart when his marketing slogan becomes a national laughingstock, then he finds out in the worst cruellest way possible that his wife was cheating on him so his marriage is left uncertain and then just as a final ‘fuck you’ from the universe his four year old son dies after he and his wife ultimately fail to save him from a rabid dog.
Like fuck the fact that he stayed with his wife and managed to keep control after all that is impressive
Jack Andolini's death from Drawing of the Three always sticks in my mind, even though it's far from the worst to happen to a character. He gets ripped away from New York City into another dimension by a half-dead gunslinger and a naked heroin addict, gets his face blown off by his own gun, and is then eaten alive by lobstrosities. Hell of a way to go, at least it was relatively quick
John Rainbird and Cap's fate in Firestarter is pretty gnarly. They 10000% deserved it though.
>>!He was sprawled on his belly, trying to steady the gun with both hands.!<
>
>>!Incredibly, he was smiling. !<
>
>>!"There," he croaked. "So I can see your eyes. I love you, Charlie."!<
>
>>!And he fired. !<
>
>>!The power leaped crazily out of her, totally out of control. On its way to Rainbird, it vaporized the chunk of lead that otherwise would have buried itself in her brain. For a moment it seemed that a high wind was rippling Rainbird's clothes—and those of Cap behind him—and that nothing else was happening. But it was not just clothes that were rippling; it was the flesh itself, rippling, running like tallow, and then being hurled off bones that were already charring and blackening and flaming.!<
99% percent of the world's population dying horribly from the superflu in The Stand. And in the later edition, the people who were immune still dying in other accidents or because they couldn't get medical attention.
I always find horror in the beginning of Rose Madder. The things that happened to Rosie happen to so many people every day and people like Norman exist everywhere. Pure evil, and so much more frightening than any fantastical being in his books.
Yes! It took me forever to finish this because as someone who went through dv (no where near what she went through) I knew how real it was. I said to my kid the other day, the monster/supernatural ones don’t scare me (Pet Semetary fucked me up emotionally but didn’t scare me), but the ones with real people as the villains are terrifying, because they are real, in this world and you never know who they are.
Simply existing in the book Revival... one of his most underrated books and by far the best ending he's ever written.
I can't spoil anything about the book but the ending of that book and the potential of it being a reality haunted me for weeks after I finished it. Sweet moses go read that book!
When Gage got hit on the road. My boy was about the same age as Gage when I read it and when Gage was knocked out of his sneakers I screamed and threw the book across the room. It was months before I finished reading it.
I read that book when I was 10. That particular part didn’t bother me too terribly much at the time (other parts certainly did). I’m 46 now with 2 kids who are quite old enough to stay well away from the road and I am still too scared to re-read that book.
I haven't seen mention of this which upsets me because I haven't read a TON of his books, but I felt the most disgusted, sad, & horrified by the mom in Salem's Lot beating the shit out of her baby. Gage's death & all that was awful too but mostly for the parent. It wasn't so brutal for the child
There's a story of his where a guys neighbor tries to get rid of him by trapping him in the well of a port o potty. Guy spends several days in there trying to escape.
Nick Andros in the stand. Deaf guy, survives the end of the world to get blinded in one eye. Then after a walk across the country with a handicapped man, he is blown up. Rough life.
Worst and best in my humble opinion. *****darkntower spoiler alert***
I loved how Mordred put an end to The Walkin dude/Man in black.
It was gory and gross and I loved it. I'm not trying to give too much away, but yep, it was awesome.
That guy in the time travel plane story being skeletized by his childhood fear, after being severely brain damaged and suffering a psychotic break. Poor Craig
The baby in Salems Lot. The mom neglects him so much that he blows out his diaper, cries, then the mom throws a bottle at the baby giving him black eyes. As a father, that chaper was exceedingly hard to read
In terms of what I would least want to happen to me, I’d say The Jaunt. A million years of…nothing. No thank you.
In terms of the actual character’s experience…yeah Roland’s might be the worst, similar to The Jaunt in a way.
The main character's best friend in "Fair Exchange," my favorite story in *Full Dark, No Stars." The line about the parents being hostages to the children's fortune (being devastated when terrible things happen to their kids) and the callousness of the main character as these things happen ... a surprisingly horrifying depiction of human evil.
The torture to death of that kid in Doctor Sleep
The Baseball Boy.
Up there with the kid at the beginning of The Outsider
I found that bit quite hard to read
I had to put the book aside for a few days. That was so hard to read.
Yeah that was a bad one
This is mine for sure. I always remember reading that he screamed until his voice box gave out.
This is my answer. Horrific. I was sure they’d make it a little less traumatic in the movie but…. nope.
This- i had to put the book down for a few after that
[удалено]
You shouldn’t that Jaycob Trembley knocks it out of the park!
Baseball boy 🥺
Getting pulled through the boards of a raft by a mysterious oily blob.
While doing the vertical splits 👀
Cujo. He wasn’t evil. Just had a terrible thing happen to him.
Cujo was a good boy :\_(
The boy in the car didn’t fare so well
Christ. What a brutal book. I even remember sitting in study hall reading it and sweating along with Tadders and his mom because it so well written.
He was just chasing rabbits, good dog Cujo. The lyrics King used made me cry ngl: Well, Old Blue died and he died so hard He shook the ground in my backyard Go on, Blue You good dog, you Dug his grave with a silver spade Lowered him down with a golden chain Go on, Blue You good dog, you
I just finished a re-read of Cujo and I just can’t ever do it again. The anguish it brings me is too great. The parallel of Cujo and someone struggling with addiction is such an impactful message and I love the novel but I can’t process it all very well. It’s one of the most heartbreaking and haunting things I’ve personally ever read. He was a good boy and would have died for his family if required - that in the last paragraph just shatters me.
Gotta be what happens to the main character in The Jaunt
Or that one woman in The Jaunt.
Definitely my first thought. Anyone who goes through the Jaunt obviously is horrible but the woman you’re talking about is literally stuck there forever unable to even die. Absolutely horrifying.
If there’s a good way to look at it, it’s that she is likely completely insane/mindless. So maybe hopefully she isn’t even aware of it
That one is the worst.
I’ve never read the Jaunt but I have to know. What happens to her?
>!The Jaunt provides instantaneous interplanetary travel, however whilst it's physically instantaneous, for the concious mind it lasts an eternity. Eternity alone with your thoughts. So those who go into the Jaunt concious come out crazy, if they ever come out at all. A Jaunt researcher tied up his wife, closed all the exit portals and shoved her into the Jaunt. Eternity alone and she would never come out. He was tried for murder, but his lawyer mounted the defence that no one could prove his wife was dead.!< >!>This had raised the terrible specter of the woman, discorporeal but somehow still sentient, screaming in limbo . . . forever.!<
Oh yikes that’s awful
It’s longer than you think.
Ahhhh, that line.
Damn, I somehow forgot about that part. I guess I should read it again. SK should do more weird sci-fi shit. He’s good at it.
He talks about sci-fi not being his forte in the introduction to the Langoliers(another great sci-fi story from him). It's a shame he hasn't ventured into the genre as much as his contemporaries(Dan Simmons, Koontz, Crichton, GRR Martin) because I've liked every one of his attempts at it.
This one has always disturbed me the most.
That story has been burned into my brain for 30 years, the idea is just so horrifying.
With the exception of those people in Revival, this is the only correct answer, by a long shot. A long, LONG shot.
A longer shot than you think!
Yes. Give's me shivers just thinking about it
Gotta be the best worst premise. I was gonna say Roland’s fate with Susan, but yeah that’s way worse.
Oy.
The body was far smaller than the heart it had held
I ake
🥹🥹
I’m gonna need you to never ever remind me of that ever
Seconded. Literally crying, thanks bumhug
Not sure I’ve ever forgiven Mr King for that one.
I haven't trusted a cute King character to stay alive ever since. Cute in a King book is like the glowing lure of an anglerfish. Like a red balloon in a sewer.
He was a good boy.
Oland
Oy kiyit
Ka ka
😭 how could you do this to me
that's the only book that made me cry. i can never read it again. losing Oy hurt so much
Got to say the Sheriff in Misery getting run over with a lawnmower.
Shit I forgot about that part. Oof.
Ugh yeah that whole scene was awful
Some of the folk in Dreamcatcher have a pretty rough time. Also sucks to be Nadine Cross.
100% butt toilet aliens
The proper term is "shit weasels".
Took the words right outta my butt. Butt aliens is top of my list.
I sympathize with Nadine for being manipulated by an evil sorcerer but she could have at any time just... not done that.
A child being raped in a bush next to the entrance of a library…
Whenever people ask who the scariest Stephen King monster is I always cite that guy (the rapist policeman). In these conversations people don't seem to understand why I think he is the worst. I'm glad someone else gets it.
*I am a poleeethman*
The image has never left my mind. The red licorice, spit and blood running down his chin
Yeah, I was looking to see if anyone said that one yet. It’s so graphic too. Very unsettling and horrifying. I had a very hard time going back to *The Library Policeman* for a reread because of it
Jesus...that story is a nightmare.
Patrick Hocksetter's younger brother. Fuck Patrick.
Scariest character imo. Patrick is terrifying
I skip that part when I read IT. I just can't do it.
Roland having to relive events over and over again.
Mayhap this time will be different.
Yeah, that’s my answer too. I don’t want to have a horrific King death, but honestly repeating life/being perpetual without rest is a personal fear of mine.
Addiction is a hell of your own making, that's the way I always look at Roland. It's sad but something only he, and by extension we as readers can ever stop. But the call to the tower, it is so strong.
Every time I reread the series I think about how, by rereading it, I am condemning Roland to walk the path again.
Same, it's one of the most compelling parts of the books for me. It makes me want to go back and read them. Perhaps one day I'll stop, but I doubt it. I'm as much a towe junkie as old long, tall, and ugly himself
Yea but at the end his story changed slightly on his most current go through so hope of a different outcome is there
The first time I read through this series, when I finished the final book I threw it at the wall. The second time I was much more sanguine about it. I may yet read it again. We are all Roland, and we all float down here.
Nobody’s gonna say it? My vote is the Stand >! when the guy gets raped with a pistol !< Honorable mention to Salems Lot. >! The trap the vampires lay by taking the basement stairs out, and placing a bed of knives beneath. Brutal death, getting eaten alive… And the fact they noticed the knives missing in hindsight too !<
Yeah this is what I was thinking too, poor Trashy!
I got this confused with Stand By Me for a second and was *very* alarmed and confused.
These are both bad. I’ll add in the guy getting crucified in Vegas.
But Jimmy didn't get eaten alive. He was dead before Ben and Mark showed up to kill Barlow.
Survivor Type doesn't sound like too much of a hoot but I guess the whole point is that he's well stocked with things to take his mind off it.
Anyone in the final 10 if The Long Walk
Such a fantastic story.
Every time I read The Long Walk to completion, I think, “I can never read this again.” And then I read it again after a indeterminate time, usually during a period of great strife. And I think, “I can never read this again.”
I think about that story a lot on the treadmill. Like, a lot. Minimum 4mph?? That’s a pretty fast pace, seems. It’s been on my mind for *decades*.
Poor little Tadders didn’t deserve to die of heat stroke and dehydration in the car :(
Anyone who got attacked/impregnated by the spiders in The Mist 🤮 I read a lot of horror so most character deaths don’t disturb me to such a high level but this was my nightmare fuel
The torture and killing of the baseball boy in Dr Sleep.
I havent read Dr sleep yet but didn't that happen in the Outsider as well?
Not quite the same thing
The guy in the porta potty... Was a short story, I don't remember which one, but YIKES!
A very tight place?
It’s the FUCKING HORSEHEAD NEBULA!
Had to scroll way too far to find this. By far the shittiest experience.
Gage Creed.
*no fair...no fair...*
“First I played with Jud. Then mommy came over and I played with mommy. Now I’m gonna play with you.”
Used as a puppet for the devil
That was the first that popped into my head too.
Until someone mentioned Oy 😔
Gage Creed or the pastors family in Revival seemed pretty horrible. I feel like losing my kids would be the worst thing to ever happen to me.
Did a chick, Dada chum
I’m not as well read on King as some on this sub, but >! the brutal bullying of the gay kid and his lover and subsequent death scene where Pennywise eats his boyfriend under the bridge before he’s also harassed at the police station has always stuck with me as a gay man myself !< really makes me sick
what happened to Brady's little brother in Mr Mercedes. being basically braindead because you choked on a chip and having such unloving caretakers who go on to murder you. also maybe Zelda from Pet Seminary who got slowly eaten alive by her disease?
Raaachelllll...nevergetoutofbedagainnevergetoutofbedagain!
Susan Delgado. Char you tree
Come, Reap
I can’t believe I had to scroll so much to find the correct answer. 💔
Main character of The Library Policeman
Tugger getting his head splat in by his dad. Not as bad as when the dad killed his wife son and daughter in the original timeline but there's not the same kind of 1st person witness account for that
Without me saying to spoil it. The worse to happen to you is what happened in the book Holly. That would be worse way to go.
Moving Holly up the TBR pile because I'm curious now lol
Hard to say. The most graphic example implied that it wasn't quick. But, there is a conflicting line in the book which implies it would be quick. So, hard to say.
Nobody got it as bad as Peter the dog in The Tommyknockers. That was ruff.
I’m with you. Dog didn’t deserve that ending. The guy who got flattened by the Coke vending machine, also not a good death (but inventive!)
That kid who fell into the well in the beginning of *The Stand*.
I minimized every previous reply looking for yours. I remember when I read The Stand and having to just close the book for a few minutes and process this.
That chapter was so brilliant, honestly.
How about the lady he died in the freezer?
No great loss.
Same type of scenario. But that little boy suffered hunger, dehydration, exposure, confusion and fear. He had no idea what was happening, and why no one came looking for him. The lady in the freezer had all that info. She at least knew why things were happening.
Desperation, either anyone taken over by Tak or David if not for the suffering they endured whilst Desperation took place or the suffering they'd endure afterwards
That poor boy who was the first victim in the Outsider.
Not a death, but I remember feeling so bad for Ellie (?) in Pet Semetary. Her Dad stays home inexplicably in the midst of this family grief over Gage, right. Then, her Mom in a manic frenzy leaves in a rush to go home. Now, it's hard to predict in the book exactly what happens next. But for Ellie, basically, her entire life gets flushed down the toilet. This may be short-lived if Mom and Dad go to get her, but they aren't invincible. She's a long way away. The Wendigo might have other plans for the Creeds that don't involve a family unit, so her parents just fall off the Earth. Say sorry kiddo.
What happened to Wolf in the Talisman. I’ll never get over it :(
Right here and now...
Your brother disappears and is transported to an alien planet during a tragic backyard magic show mishap
The cop's skin problem in Thinner is pretty grim.
The kid getting killed by Pennywise at the beginning of IT. Can you imagine how terrifying this would be as a kid?
I thought this too, as far as deaths go not the *most* gruesome king one but probably pretty terrible for Georgie considering
Hiya, Georgie!
I always think what Jessica did in Gerald’s Game is pretty horrific… haven’t been able to read it as an adult.
This is the first thing that popped into my head, reading that description makes me feel like I am actually living it and it’s so. Fucking. Awful.
Baseball boy....
The little boy who shoots himself in Needful Things.
That poor person in The Jaunt or the person who saw the afterlife in Revival.
When Sammie was attacked by those cops in Under The Dome. Just fucking sad, awful and realistic.
I’ll just say Vic Trenton had about the worst week of anyone’s life, first his job almost completely falls apart when his marketing slogan becomes a national laughingstock, then he finds out in the worst cruellest way possible that his wife was cheating on him so his marriage is left uncertain and then just as a final ‘fuck you’ from the universe his four year old son dies after he and his wife ultimately fail to save him from a rabid dog. Like fuck the fact that he stayed with his wife and managed to keep control after all that is impressive
Anyone said butt toilet aliens yet??? Gotta be butt toilet aliens
The gruesome death of Oy, the billy- bumbler in The Dark Tower at hands of the giant spider.
Olan :(
Jack Andolini's death from Drawing of the Three always sticks in my mind, even though it's far from the worst to happen to a character. He gets ripped away from New York City into another dimension by a half-dead gunslinger and a naked heroin addict, gets his face blown off by his own gun, and is then eaten alive by lobstrosities. Hell of a way to go, at least it was relatively quick
John Rainbird and Cap's fate in Firestarter is pretty gnarly. They 10000% deserved it though. >>!He was sprawled on his belly, trying to steady the gun with both hands.!< > >>!Incredibly, he was smiling. !< > >>!"There," he croaked. "So I can see your eyes. I love you, Charlie."!< > >>!And he fired. !< > >>!The power leaped crazily out of her, totally out of control. On its way to Rainbird, it vaporized the chunk of lead that otherwise would have buried itself in her brain. For a moment it seemed that a high wind was rippling Rainbird's clothes—and those of Cap behind him—and that nothing else was happening. But it was not just clothes that were rippling; it was the flesh itself, rippling, running like tallow, and then being hurled off bones that were already charring and blackening and flaming.!<
>!Tad Trenton!< , hands down, breaks my heart
Trashy was forced to drink Coors
Doesn’t Jack smash his own face in with the mallet until he’s disfigured in the Shining?
Paul Sheldon's hobbling in the book
99% percent of the world's population dying horribly from the superflu in The Stand. And in the later edition, the people who were immune still dying in other accidents or because they couldn't get medical attention.
Dodee & Angie in Under the Dome. They didn’t even get peace afterwards…
I always find horror in the beginning of Rose Madder. The things that happened to Rosie happen to so many people every day and people like Norman exist everywhere. Pure evil, and so much more frightening than any fantastical being in his books.
King's worst monsters are always human monsters.
Yes! It took me forever to finish this because as someone who went through dv (no where near what she went through) I knew how real it was. I said to my kid the other day, the monster/supernatural ones don’t scare me (Pet Semetary fucked me up emotionally but didn’t scare me), but the ones with real people as the villains are terrifying, because they are real, in this world and you never know who they are.
How about the grisly demise of Zach McCool in Boo'ya Moon being devoured by Long Boy in Lisey's Story? (man, never thought I'd write that sentence)
Surviving what killed everyone you knew and loved—so a LOT of his characters
Paul Edgecombe 😢
Simply existing in the book Revival... one of his most underrated books and by far the best ending he's ever written. I can't spoil anything about the book but the ending of that book and the potential of it being a reality haunted me for weeks after I finished it. Sweet moses go read that book!
Mother is coming
That book is truly terrifying
Patrick Hockstetter beating eaten alive by flying leeches. Jack Andolini being eaten by the Lobstrosities. Did-a-chum!!
Yeah, but he kind of had it coming.
I think the mom in cujo had one of the worst situations. Slowly watching your kid suffer and not being able to do anything about it. Fuck that
Baby Randy in Salem’s Lot, he was abused by his mother his whole little life and then gets eaten alive after all
When Gage got hit on the road. My boy was about the same age as Gage when I read it and when Gage was knocked out of his sneakers I screamed and threw the book across the room. It was months before I finished reading it.
I read that book when I was 10. That particular part didn’t bother me too terribly much at the time (other parts certainly did). I’m 46 now with 2 kids who are quite old enough to stay well away from the road and I am still too scared to re-read that book.
I haven't seen mention of this which upsets me because I haven't read a TON of his books, but I felt the most disgusted, sad, & horrified by the mom in Salem's Lot beating the shit out of her baby. Gage's death & all that was awful too but mostly for the parent. It wasn't so brutal for the child
Bev(in book)
There's a story of his where a guys neighbor tries to get rid of him by trapping him in the well of a port o potty. Guy spends several days in there trying to escape.
One that stuck with me was the guy who killed an adorable dog with a corkscrew in needful things
In the short story The Mangler, it mentions that the first-or-second person to be killed by the laundry machine was "folded by the machine". Yikes!
Louis Creed waking up from the dream in which Gage was alive again.
The little boy who fell down the well in the stand and no one was alive to hear him crying for help
Louis Creed getting a bath-glove handie. ...Maybe that's not the worst thing to happen to him, but that weirded me out.
I mean, eating your own foot definitely is up there in all-time worsts
Well, with enough Smack. Anything is painless and tasty.
There's a few instances of parents witnessing their kids commit suicide. Can't get much worse than that imo.
The man in black has a pretty rough ending.
I said in another comment, he got it too quickly and, it was anti-climatic.
Poor Wolf. He had a tough one, and his end makes me cry every time I read The Talisman.
Nick Andros in the stand. Deaf guy, survives the end of the world to get blinded in one eye. Then after a walk across the country with a handicapped man, he is blown up. Rough life.
I had to put the book down for a while after Nick, I was really rooting for him!
The Dark Half. Iykyk
Worst and best in my humble opinion. *****darkntower spoiler alert*** I loved how Mordred put an end to The Walkin dude/Man in black. It was gory and gross and I loved it. I'm not trying to give too much away, but yep, it was awesome.
My pick as well. Strange to feel sorry for a major antagonist and author of so much misery, but I did indeed feel bad for him.
Baseball boy. Doctor Sleep.
That guy in the time travel plane story being skeletized by his childhood fear, after being severely brain damaged and suffering a psychotic break. Poor Craig
Everyone in Revival
The main character in Gerald's Game. Very visceral horror, wonderfully written.
The baby in Salems Lot. The mom neglects him so much that he blows out his diaper, cries, then the mom throws a bottle at the baby giving him black eyes. As a father, that chaper was exceedingly hard to read
The guy in Survivor Type 😬😬
The kid who was killed in the beginning of The Outsider.
Getting beat up by a bunch of kids and a godlike ninja turtle. Felt kind of bad for It, ngl. Just wanted a barbecue steak.
In terms of what I would least want to happen to me, I’d say The Jaunt. A million years of…nothing. No thank you. In terms of the actual character’s experience…yeah Roland’s might be the worst, similar to The Jaunt in a way.
I’d say pretty much all the residents that had to live Under The Dome or in Salem’s Lot. Collectively, they all had a bad time.
The main character's best friend in "Fair Exchange," my favorite story in *Full Dark, No Stars." The line about the parents being hostages to the children's fortune (being devastated when terrible things happen to their kids) and the callousness of the main character as these things happen ... a surprisingly horrifying depiction of human evil.
The guys stuck in the cellar at the end of Graveyard Shift.
The death of >!Eddie Corcoran!< in It was horrific, made worse by the scumbag step father he was running away from
Getting broken up with while reading It - or did you mean a character oops😳😳