Nightmare Fuel / Needful Things

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• The bag with the souls in it. Or the pendant. If not that, then how about how all the people of the town go to town on each other. This time the bad guy didn't torture the victims, he just manipulated everyone and made them torture each other.
• Watching Gaunt play everyone like fiddles and getting to have brief scenes with him after people leave the shop to make sure we know just how much of a bastard he is...and that he's Genre Savvy enough to avoid The Hero at all costs until the climax, when he thinks he can corrupt him, is terrifying. Also the fact that he's very clearly a Satan Expy and has been doing this for centuries despite admitting he has all the souls he'll ever need already. It's all For the Evulz.
• Brian Rusk, an eleven-year-old child, killing himself. Not only it's a scary thought by itself, but we see the whole process slowly taking away all the joy in his life. And if that wasn't bad enough, no one notices it except his even younger brother, that also ends up witnessing the suicide.
  • Brian's mother being so far gone that she couldn't care less about it, because she's so wrapped up in her "dates with the King".
• Ace briefly considers taking one of the pistols and fleeing the country, and as if by magic, the tape recorder comes to life and Gaunt threatens him with a Fate Worse than Death if he even thinks about booking it.
• Gaunt gets sick of Ace's bullshit and absolutely loses it, grabbing him by the throat and screaming at him to "shut up and listen" as his form shifts from kindly of grandpa to horrifying demon thing.
• A more low key moment: Pangborn's self-induced nightmares over the unknown factors of his wife and son's death in a car crash.^{Specifically...}Alan's wife, Annie, was known to be a careful driver, but not only did her car crash in an unconventional way, but she was not wearing her seatbelt, something that she not only always did, but her and Alan's son, Todd, was. Alan knew his wife had been having severe head pain in the weeks beforehand, but between being distracted by the crazy events of The Dark Half and trusting her when she said she was fine, he didn't force the issue. An autopsy revealed afterwards that his wife had a tumour on her brain stem, which the doctor theorized had caused a seizure that had caused the crash. That's not what torments Pangborn, though. Trying to figure out the strangeness of the undone seatbelt leads him to discover that such tumours and seizures can prompt sudden, insane irrational behaviour, and his deep-seated 'might have been' is the idea that not only did his wife have such a seizure and decide to both kill herself and her son, but that her last actions wasn't driving the car into a tree, but undoing her seat belt and then TRYING TO UNDO HER SON'S BEFORE THEY CRASHED TO INSURE HE DIED AS WELL. Oh, and to top it off, it was unable to be determined if his son had still been alive when the crashed car's gas tank exploded. Which means that even in this worst case scenario, the fact that his wife failed to undo their son's seat belt meant he died even WORSE. Such things will probably haunt any parents or people who wonder about things they could have changed much worse than magic evil storekeepers selling cursed items to drive a whole town insane.