13 Ordinary Things Stephen King Made Scary

King has a way of making inanimate objects truly terrifying.

1. Cell Phones

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You'll be second guessing your dedication to your iPhone in Cell.

2. Home Gyms

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A healthy pastime becomes a dangerous escape from reality in the short story Stationary Bike from Just After Sunset.

3. Your Car

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An evil car, an impressionable young man. Christine is one villainous vehicle.

4. Reality TV

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Before The Hunger Games, there was The Running Man and The Long Walk. Two novels where reality television turns deadly.

5. Beer

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Nothing is safe! A cold one after a long day turns one man into a unrecognizable monster in Gray Matter from The Night Shift.

6. Hotel Rooms

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The short story turned movie 1408, from Everything's Eventual demonstrates the dangers of being a skeptic... in a haunted hotel room.

7. Trains

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Trains are widely accepted as the safest way to travel. Unfortunately this was not so for the heroes of the epic Dark Tower series as they traveled on Blaine the mono, a suicidal super train with a desire to kill.

8. The Garage

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In A Good Marriage, one woman discovers a gruesome secret of her husband's in the garage. From the collection of novellas Full Dark, No Stars.

9. Sewer Drains

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A clown in the sewer. It gave us nightmares, both in novel and movie form.

10. Toy Monkeys

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Okay, maybe these are always creepy. But especially so in The Monkey from Skeleton Crew.

11. Sneakers

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A casual glimpse at a pair of shoes in a bathroom stall will give you chills after this short terror titled Sneakers from Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

12. Electric Knives

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When super fan Annie rescues author Paul Sheldon from a car wreck, he feels lucky. That is until she discovers he has killed off her favorite book character, and the novel namesake, Misery.

13. Sinks

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Particularly the bathroom sink drain, in the truly disturbing short story The Moving Finger from Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

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