The BoogeymanWritten By: Stephen King

•This short story was published in 1978

This story comes from

the novel Night Shift

Lester Billings goes to his psychiatrist

for a problem

Lester comes by as a paranoid and

schizophrenic man

He soon begins to talk about the mystery of the

closet

Lester then

repeats “I killed

my children”

Lester begins his

story of his

children and their lives with flashbacks

He had three kids

Denny, Shirl, and

Andy

Denny and Shirl

where the first to die

from mysterious causes

His son Andy gets

killed when the

boogeyman snaps his

neck

Lester soon realizes

who he was actually

talking to

Credits

•By Ross and Nathan