{"id":6952,"date":"2007-09-04T14:34:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T18:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6952"},"modified":"2022-10-13T20:59:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T00:59:09","slug":"the-mist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6952","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Mist\u201d, by Stephen King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0451223292&#038;asins=0451223292&#038;linkId=45H6A3DOQLWRC32Y&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n I&#8217;ve read most of Stephen King and he&#8217;s given me some pretty horrible moments:  The monster in <em>It<\/em> (let&#8217;s not even GO THERE, people).  Certain parts of <i>The Stand<\/i> &#8211; the whole Lincoln Tunnel section is one of the most vivid pieces of post-apocalypse writing I&#8217;ve ever read &#8211; and it took on even more reality for me after September 11 &#8230; because you couldn&#8217;t stop your brain from imagining such things.  <i>It<\/i> was terrifying (not to mention a masterpiece, as far as I&#8217;m concerned &#8211; talk about needing to be counted as a great book PERIOD, not a great &#8220;horror&#8221; book!) &#8230; and then there&#8217;s all the others &#8230; scary (some more than others) &#8211; his imagination which knows no bounds, blah blah blah.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8211; to date &#8211; (and like I&#8217;ve said, i&#8217;ve read most of his books) &#8211; I have never (and I mean NEVER) been as frightened as I was when I read his short story &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0451223292\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0451223292&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkId=MXGYPFYTUAERWRQE\">The Mist<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=thesheivari-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0451223292\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>I was living at home for the summer &#8211; I was in between my junior and senior year in college &#8211; I remember this because that was the summer I fell in love for the first time, and he fell in love with me, and we had picnics and cavorted thru Newport, and blah blah &#8230; most exciting summer of my life up until that point.  Yay!  Love!  And I was living with my parents &#8211; and I was reading the collection of short stories by Stephen King &#8211; and i was working 2 jobs, I remember &#8211; at the pizza parlor by the beach, and I was also running lights and sound for the big Freshman Orientation shows they were putting on on campus.  I know this is a long-ass story full of extraneous details, but whatevs, I&#8217;m busy writing <i>Quantum Leap<\/i> fanfic right now and cannot be bothered.  So I was VERY busy, what with 2 jobs and my first boyfriend courting me and all that.  And I picked up &#8220;The Mist&#8221;, having no idea what I was getting into.  I thought I knew what scared was.  I thought I had already experienced the full throttle of the King imagination of horror.  But no.  Oh no.<\/p>\n<p>That was, hands down, the scariest mo-f&#8217;in thing I have ever read in my life &#8211; I lay in bed, tense as a BOARD &#8230; and I had to wake up at 6 am to get to the theatre by 7 am &#8211; to set up the light board &#8230; but I couldn&#8217;t put the book down.  Not just because it was so good &#8230; but because I WAS AFRAID TO TURN THE LIGHTS OFF.  I was afraid of what dreams may come.<\/p>\n<p>We were &#8220;cat sitting&#8221; that summer for my friend Jackie &#8211; it was a small mischievous ball of grey fur &#8211; who would attack his own reflections in the mirror, and pounce on my dad&#8217;s head from behind.  He was adorable but a terror.  And he snuck into my room, as I lay there &#8211; reading &#8211; it&#8217;s, like, 3 in the morning &#8211; I didn&#8217;t see him come in &#8211; and he skulked towards the bed and in one fell swoop leapt up onto the bed, claws digging into my arm &#8230; and I<\/p>\n<h3>FLIPPED<\/h3>\n<h3>OUT<\/h3>\n<p>That poor cat. His prank worked better than he could ever have imagined.  I threw him off the bed, screaming and thrashing and panting &#8230; and then &#8230; because I had to &#8230; a force beyond my control was leading me &#8230; picked up the damn book again.<\/p>\n<p>I finished it that night and didn&#8217;t sleep a wink.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t read it since but I remember some paragraphs of it with what feels like word-for-word accuracy &#8211; I&#8217;d have to go back and check.  But that book emanates a dark horrific glow &#8230; I am still afraid of that stupid book.<\/p>\n<p>Great stuff!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; just found out via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwatchstuff.com\/\">this site <\/a>that they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0884328\/\">turning it into a movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fingers crossed.  It would make a great movie, I think!  A classic <i>war of the worlds<\/i> type situation. Horrifying.  Absolutely horrifying.  I am also pleased to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0005048\/\">Thomas Jane <\/a>is the lead.  He was in one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=5107\">my Faces I love<\/a>, don&#8217;t ya know!<\/p>\n<p>I have never forgotten the horrible night I stayed up and read that stupid story!<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0451223292&#038;asins=0451223292&#038;linkId=45H6A3DOQLWRC32Y&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read most of Stephen King and he&#8217;s given me some pretty horrible moments: The monster in It (let&#8217;s not even GO THERE, people). 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