Is being into S&M a douchebag warning sign in the straight community? I have to admit I'm not that familiar with the hetero version of the community. Very few of the gay guys I've met into it could qualify as 'douche'. They tend to either be really nice guys or really crazy guys.

Is being into S&M a douchebag warning sign in the straight community? I have to admit I'm not that familiar with the hetero version of the community. Very few of the gay guys I've met into it could qualify as 'douche'. They tend to either be really nice guys or really crazy guys.

No, and there's an easy to remember way to tell them apart. One is a horrible monster. One is a werewolf.

No, and there's an easy to remember way to tell them apart. One is a horrible monster. One is a werewolf.

That story and his lavish praise of HPL in 'Danse Macabre' are why I started reading Lovecraft. I'd have that to thank Mr. King for if nothing else.

That story and his lavish praise of HPL in 'Danse Macabre' are why I started reading Lovecraft. I'd have that to thank Mr. King for if nothing else.

I think more in general that the last one is fear that you aren't who you think you are. Yeah, he was a racist, but not too badly for his time and he did seem to progress a little towards the end of his life.

I think more in general that the last one is fear that you aren't who you think you are. Yeah, he was a racist, but not too badly for his time and he did seem to progress a little towards the end of his life.

@avclub-7e1ce4ce3124fd9ecc13a151afcff11b:disqus , the story you're thinking of is 'The Bogeyman', and as I say somewhere below, I think it's quite chilling myself.

When Shelly put the iPad in Randy's hands, my first thought was "Teach, mother, secret lover…"

When Shelly put the iPad in Randy's hands, my first thought was "Teach, mother, secret lover…"

The first time I read " 'Salem's Lot" I was a teenager. There's a scene at the very end where he's talking about the strange wolf-packs that rove the wilderness around the town after the vampire plague. Right at the moment I was reading about how people could hear the wolves howling in the night, our dog upstairs…

The first time I read " 'Salem's Lot" I was a teenager. There's a scene at the very end where he's talking about the strange wolf-packs that rove the wilderness around the town after the vampire plague. Right at the moment I was reading about how people could hear the wolves howling in the night, our dog upstairs…

I had a very different reaction to Cujo. It was terrible (and not in the sense that it was no good, in the sense that it evoked terror) but the end of the book, when Cujo's body is in a plastic bag on the conveyor belt to the incinerator…it brought me to tears. The poor animals that never wanted to do anything but…

I had a very different reaction to Cujo. It was terrible (and not in the sense that it was no good, in the sense that it evoked terror) but the end of the book, when Cujo's body is in a plastic bag on the conveyor belt to the incinerator…it brought me to tears. The poor animals that never wanted to do anything but…

That was a very strange and disturbing run for a comic that seems otherwise so dedicated to pap. I like that theory.

That was a very strange and disturbing run for a comic that seems otherwise so dedicated to pap. I like that theory.

See above…I think King is a true master of the short horror story.

See above…I think King is a true master of the short horror story.

I'm a King fan, and I've always thought his short stories are scarier than the novels. I found several of the stories in "Night Shift' quite unsettling. For some reason, 'The Bogeyman' and 'The Mangler' in particular got to me, in both cases mostly because of the very last scenes in each story.