Random Most Horrible Things That Have Happened In Stephen King Novels (21 items)

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  (#9) Susannah Is Assaulted By A Demon

  A lot of horrible things happen in the Dark Tower series, but one of the most graphic is the sexual assault of Susannah by the Speaking Demon in the third book, The Waste Lands. Even though she's able to tap into her tougher personality, Detta Walker, to help fight back, it's still an extremely horrifying situation.

  It also doesn't help that she becomes pregnant with a demon baby.
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  (#21) Clay And His Group Realize They All Had The Same Dream

  Clay looked down at his sketch, which he was still carrying - the torn flesh, the torn sleeve of the pullover, the baggy blue jeans. He supposed that Raggedy Man was not a bad name at all for the fellow in the Harvard hoodie.

  Cell is Stephen King's version of the zombie apocalypse, and it's filled with horrifying moments. One of the biggest is the group of survivors all having the same dream, which includes standing in a stadium surrounded by zombies. It's horrifying enough as it is without revealing that everyone else also had the dream. 
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  (#7) Cujo Descends Into Rabid Madness

  Cujo got back up. His muzzle was bloody. His eyes seemed wandering, vacuous again... The dog made as if to walk away, suddenly snapped viciously at its own flank as if stung, whirled, and sprang at Donna's window. It struck right in front of Donna's face with another tremendous dull thud. Blood sprayed across the glass, and a long silver crack appeared. Tad shrieked and clapped his hands to his face, pulling his cheeks down, harrowing them with his fingernails.

  The scariest part about Cujo is how down-to-earth everything is. It's not some interstellar space clown bent on consuming the souls of children, it's a dog slowly driven mad by rabies. Stephen King is such a master of his craft that he makes you simultaneously sad about Cujo's transformation, but also horrified that this dog is going to maul Donna and Tad. 
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  (#6) Danny Sees The Woman From 217 Again

  The woman from Room 217 was there, as he had known she would be. She was sitting naked on the toilet with her legs spread and her pallid thighs bulging. Her greenish breasts hung down like deflated balloons. The patch of hair below her stomach was gray. Her eyes were also gray, like steel mirrors. She saw him, and her lips stretched back in a grin.

  Stephen King's Doctor Sleep is the decades-later sequel to The Shining, and judging by the opening few pages, it's every bit as terrifying. To be presented with such a horrific image right off the bat is a sign that the book you're reading will most likely traumatize you. In Doctor Sleep's case, that's entirely accurate.
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  (#15) Trisha Is Stalked By A Faceless Monster

  In its glare Trisha saw something with slumped shoulders standing on the far side of the road, something with black eyes and great cocked ears like horns. Perhaps they were horns. It wasn't human; nor did she think it was animal. It was a god. It was her god, the wasp-god, standing there in the rain.

  Although not as well-known as some of his bigger novels, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is still quietly terrifying. Perhaps the scariest part is when Trisha realizes she's being followed by a faceless creature and the 9-year-old's mental state slowly starts to deteriorate. 
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  (#4) Gage Creed Comes Back As A Monster

  Hello Jud, you f*cked with me once. Did you think I wouldn't come back sooner or later and f*ck with you?

  Stephen King knows there's nothing more horrifying than children. It's why one of his scariest villains is Gage Creed in Pet Sematary. After dying and coming back, Gage is not the same boy he used to be.

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