The Boogeyman

Stephen Edwin King is considered to be one of the most outstanding authors of contemporary horror, suspense, science and fantasy fictions of the world. He is famous for his novels such as Carrie, The shining and others. Stephen King is a very talented writer, he manages to create the air sphere, like a ball that can burst at any moment and cause fear, the reader finds himself in this ball as show more if in a gloomy, full of tension world, from which is impossible to get out until you read it to the end of the book. He created this world by using a lot of brilliant dialogues and witty paradoxes are distinguished features of his creation. His “The Boogeyman” is an absolute classic part surreal and funny field guide, part existential crisis, that’s why the phenomenon of his success is being explored.
Under the title of the book the writer means fear! The theme of fear is a central to the short story The Boogeyman by King. The narrative is focused on the fear of Lester and that why of his children. The Boogeyman in this part is the principal fear of all children’s so author choose this title to emphasize the influence of the people’s fears.
The key problem raised in the first part that I’ve read are about the inner fear of the protagonist, he comes to a psychologist with the problem that his children have died, he doesn’t go to the police or a detective, because he subconsciously understands that the problem lies in himself, from his childhood he has fear and translated it on children’s.
The most attractive thing for the readers attention is King’s style. The typical feature of the author’s style is his using a great number of the high-flown words to describe a Lester’s rejection of his childhood fear and his guild in this tragedy, which entailed such consequences. His brilliant dialogues between Lester and Dr. Harper’s are worth mentioning as they give the atmosphere of conflict and not having to admit to myself that provoke interest to the readers.
Author using a lot of stylistic devices like metaphors - boogeyman; epithets- impatient flick, thinning hair; personification-boogeyman left a mark on the floor)- thats all are used to give the reader the whole picture of emotions. The author describes Lester but we know nothing about Dr. Harper’s, his emotions, his fears, his minds-nothing what makes one think and is this a real person or just a part of Lester’s imagination? Who knows?
In my opinion, the author doesn’t sympathize with the protagonist, he shows his real insides and the whole story revolves around the constant fears of the protagonist that destroy everyone and everything around him and this will continue anywhere in the world until he gets rid of him.
I am totally recommend this horror short story for all of us. show less

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Nov 17, 2020

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Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, on September 21, 1947. After graduating with a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, he became a teacher. His spare time was spent writing short stories and novels. King's first novel would never have been published if not for his wife. She removed the first few show more chapters from the garbage after King had thrown them away in frustration. Three months later, he received a $2,500 advance from Doubleday Publishing for the book that went on to sell a modest 13,000 hardcover copies. That book, Carrie, was about a girl with telekinetic powers who is tormented by bullies at school. She uses her power, in turn, to torment and eventually destroy her mean-spirited classmates. When United Artists released the film version in 1976, it was a critical and commercial success. The paperback version of the book, released after the movie, went on to sell more than two-and-a-half million copies. Many of King's other horror novels have been adapted into movies, including The Shining, Firestarter, Pet Semetary, Cujo, Misery, The Stand, and The Tommyknockers. Under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King has written the books The Running Man, The Regulators, Thinner, The Long Walk, Roadwork, Rage, and It. He is number 2 on the Hollywood Reporter's '25 Most Powerful Authors' 2016 list. King is one of the world's most successful writers, with more than 100 million copies of his works in print. Many of his books have been translated into foreign languages, and he writes new books at a rate of about one per year. In 2003, he received the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. In 2012 his title, The Wind Through the Keyhole made The New York Times Best Seller List. King's title's Mr. Mercedes and Revival made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2014. He won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 2015 for Best Novel with Mr. Mercedes. King's title Finders Keepers made the New York Times bestseller list in 2015. Sleeping Beauties is his latest 2017 New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) Stephen King is the author of more than thirty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are "Hearts in Atlantis", "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon", "Bag of Bones", & "The Green Mile". "On Writing" is his first book of nonfiction since "Danse Macabre", published in 1981. He served as a judge for Prize Stories: The Best of 1999, The O. Henry Awards. He lives in Bangor, Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. King's book, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories, made the 2015 New York Times bestseller list. (Publisher Provided) show less