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Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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The Boogie Man and the Mangler

The short story is basically just two people in room. It's a therapy session between Will Harper and Lester Billings who is telling this story of the Boogie Man that may or may not have killed his kids. But it's eight pages of two people in a room talking so it's not the most obvious King material to adapt. He was angry and he was waving his arms desperately trying to get attention with these very splashy short stories that he was getting published in Hustler and Cavalier magazines where the Boogie man comes from.

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