I knew for a fact that that cover - with a hand with eyes on it - that those eyes were looking at me and they were going to somehow move. And I remember very distinctly being on the top bunk of a bunk bed, and having read these stories - stories about huge rats underneath a factory, and evil beings coming through eyes that are the doorway of your hand, and of a mysterious and horrible washing machine that turns and breaks out on its own, and stories that are much, much worse even than that - and literally being too scared to turn around and look at my cubby. I read it one summer, my first summer at sleepaway camp, which means that I was probably about 10 years old. I didn't read it quite that early, but I read it much earlier than I should have. This segment has been edited for length and clarity. Listen more: Writer Jeremy Dauber on the ongoing anxiety in comics Dauber was so gripped by the story that its final phrase, “so nice,” still finds its way into his dreams The story is now being adapted for film.
He was particularly taken with “The Boogeyman,” a tale that originally appeared in the magazine Cavalier’s March 1973 issue, and featured a full page illustration of the frightening titular creature. Dauber first read the collection while at sleepaway camp as a child. King’s first series of short stories sparked Dauber’s fascination with horror. Columbia professor Jeremy Dauber, author of “ American Comics: A History,” and an upcoming book on American horror, considers Stephen King's 1978 short story collection “ Night Shift” a treat.
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