Nightmare Fuel / Kafka on the Shore

• The scene with Nakata and the cat killer, Johnnie Walker, is incredibly disturbing and incredibly tense. Especially as he’s essentially holding a cat hostage to goad the old man into killing him.
  • Johnnie Walker appears again toward the end of the novel in the mini-chapter The Boy Named Crow. He has apparently completed his flute made of cat souls, and Crow is helpless to stop him no matter how horribly he can disfigure the "man", because he's already dead. "Johnnie Walker” also is the disguise of the evil worm being mentioned below, making that scene worse.
• The scene with the "worm-creature" is enough to send chills down anyone's spine.
• The Oedipal prophecy is pretty terrifying. Kafka seems destined to fulfill it despite all his efforts to the contrary, and how badly he wants to not go through with it, and it hangs over the whole plot like a looming axe.