- Complete Monster (Film): George Stark, in his attempt to enter reality, goes on a vicious killing spree to ruin the life of Thad Beaumont. Murdering those connected with Thad, even one his agent's ex-wife, who Stark tortures with a straight razor before execution, Stark also murders a man who was blackmailing Thad complete with more torture and castration. Seeking to blackmail Thad into writing him into reality, Stark kidnaps Thad's family and tries to murder his infant children when he's failed, so evil that even the universe itself seems to act to send sparrows to ferry Stark's soul to hell.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Early on, Sheriff Pangborn tells himself that Castle Rock is a good place for him and his family. Come Needful Things and his wife and younger son have both died, and Leland Gaunt's antics end up destroying the town. Bad call there, Alan.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: The repeated references to Stark looking like a zombie, and Thad thinking he's in "the land of the living dead," when George Romero would direct the film adaptation.
- Nightmare Fuel: George Stark "losing cohesion" and falling apart and then getting pecked to death by sparrows.
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