Stephen Kingesque moments

Topic: connection to personal life

Very recently, I had a horrific nightmare. In the nightmare, the creepy kid from Children of the Corn kept whispering, "The bad man is coming."

Creepy Isaac

I was stranded during the Dust Bowl (aka Dirty Thirties) era in a shanty that was covered in the aforementioned dust. In one area of the room, the floorboards folded up like an accordion desk to reveal a hiding place. There were four of us in the room and we all struggled to fit into the hiding place while the creepy kid just kept repeating, "The bad man is coming." Needless to say, I woke myself up and freaked out for about 15 minutes after I turned on every light in the house.

Dust Bowl Shanty I felt much like Jacob must have felt when he had the recurring nightmares about his grandfather's last words and the peculiar photos his grandfather shared with him. To have your grandfather's last words echoing in your head every day after his death would be an almost insurmountable traumatic event. It is not surprising that Jacob was seeing a psychiatrist. The pictures his grandfather showed him were also very disturbing, especially when taken out of context. I am anxious to find out if these are benign creatures or malicious ones that haunted/potentially caused the grandfather's death. Creepy photos from the book are below.