The Boogeyman

Horror is difficult to find one simple answer for – but you can say horror is all the literature and films which purpose is to scare.
The Boogeyman by Stephen King, we are introduced to Lester Billings – which maybe is guilty of committing the murder of his three children.

“I can’t go to a priest because I am not a Catholic. I cannot go to a lawyer because I have not done anything to consult a lawyer about. All I did was kill my kids. One at a time. Killed them all.” This is the first thing Lester Billings says about his problem, and the reason of his need to reveal his secret to the psychiatrist, Dr. Harper. Think of a man, who is about to confess the murders of his three children, this is a very calm way of telling his experience.

Lester Billing is very self centered and arrogant in way of behaving towards other people. He feels superior to women and talks openly and calmly about being a wife better and a child abuser “I started to slap her, just like the old days” This demonstrates his need to be in control, but at the same time we see that he is liable to change personality and therefore in a position to act unpredictably.
An example of Lester Billings strong imagination is
“He looked at the plain white composition ceiling as if seeing scenes and pictures played out there” Another example of his strong imagination is when he thinks about how the Boogeyman finds him and his family. “I started to think, that it lost us for a while when we moved. It had to hunt around, slinking through the streets at night and maybe creeping in the sewers. Smelling for us. It took a year, but it found us. It’s back.” This strong imagination, which Lester apparently has, end with he lose the power.

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Another factor, which I think has great importance in this story, is Lester’s mother’s role. According to Lester, his mother was very overprotective, and this is not what he wants to be for his children. Lester is actually afraid, that his children will end up like him.

To prevent the children from ending up being as him, or as sissies, he refuses to let the babies sleep with a night-light, he also refuses to move the babies into Lester’s and Rita’s bedroom, because “If a kid doesn’t get over being afraid of the dark when he’s little, he never ...

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