History NightmareFuel / StephenKing

** The insertion of the words "I'm going to kill you" into the MirandaWarning near the beginning of the book, and the Tak-possessed cop doing just that to the husband of the family at the end of the chapter.

* "The Jaunt," another short story about a [[{{Zeerust}} futuristic]] transport system that takes people directly from one point to another -- and what happens when they aren't rendered unconscious first. ''[[AndIMustScream "It's eternity in there..."]]'' Contains what is quite possibly the most gruesome and memorable ending to any of King's stories. Needless to say it happens to a kid!
** Oates recalls rumors of people who used the Jaunt as a murder weapon, chucking people into it after turning off all the exit points. The victim is trapped in [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds the void]], cut off from all external stimuli, with no way to escape. [[AFateWorseThanDeath Ever.]]
*** It's stated that there was one confirmed case in which a Jaunt researcher disposed of his wife in this manner. The man's defense attorney argued that it wasn't murder, because they couldn't prove that the wife was actually ''dead''. When the jury realized [[AndIMustScream the implications]], it cemented the man's conviction. (Though to be fair, it isn't made entirely clear what happens during a jaunt; it's possible that using it that way DOES kill the person, and that it's only the sensation of journeying to an actual point B that feels like "an eternity".)

* "The Jaunt," another short story about a [[{{Zeerust}} futuristic]] transport system that takes people directly from one point to another -- and what happens when they aren't rendered unconscious first. ''[[AndIMustScream "It's eternity in there..."]]'' Contains what is quite possibly the most gruesome and memorable ending to any of King's stories.

* On the author notes at the end of Just After Sunset, he asks if the readers are sure they locked all the doors or turned off the oven, OCD symptom or not, just in case something happens. As if he KNEW people would be reading the book in bed, right before sleeping.

* The ending of ''Literature/{{Revival}}''. Many have called it the most disturbing ending King has ever written, and considering his track record, that's saying a lot. In short, the hero (Jamie) and villain (Charles Jacobs) of the story find out that once you die, there's no heaven to go to. There is only the Null--upon death, your soul is captured by giant ant-like beings and you are used as slave labor for a giant EldritchAbomination known as "Mother" and a host of other horrors. ''For all eternity.'' Oh, and Mother lashes out through the psychic connection they've been observing the Null through, killing the villain, and forcing the hero to kill the patient they were using as a gateway to close it. Its implied that Mother then drives everyone the villain had been "healing" insane and makes them commit suicide. The hero is left alive, but has to constantly numb himself with a cocktail of anti-depressants, knowing that no matter what, sooner or later he will also die and join the rest of mankind in the Null.
** Most of the people Jacobs healed during his career as a FakeFaithHealer (the healing was real, but not the faith) ended up fine, but some of them experienced... side effects. Jamie himself walked in his sleep, and would jab his arm with random objects as a callback to his former heroin addiction. One girl experienced uncontrollable kleptomania that ended up putting her in prison. Another would wander into his front yard at night and start eating dirt.
** Yates, a musician who Jacobs had cured of deafness back in the 70's, experienced "prismatics", bizarre visions where the world was made up of insane, non-existant colors, with the hint of another, more "real" world behind it all. Decades later, when Jamie brings him to one of Jacobs revival shows, Yates has a relapse where he sees the whole crowd, Jamie included, as giant ants, foreshadowing the climax.

* The description of the eponymous character in ''Rose Madder'', specifically how she looks right before she deals with Norman. The mental image of the 'rot' that seems to move ''beneath her skin'' is equal parts NightmareFuel and {{Squick}}. Then again, King seems to love hopping over the line between the two. What happens with Norman and the mask could count, too; It ''fuses to his face''. Fortunately for him, he doesn't live much longer than that. [[DomesticAbuse Rose and Norman's marriage itself]] is a more reality-based example.

* ''From a Buick 8''. Everything, ''everything'' that comes out of that car is just not meant to be in our world. The "driver" (which is generous to call "him that), the "bat", everything in that car should never have been as far as our world is concerned. But what really sells the nightmares are the simple descriptions of things that the troopers have seen on the job, from descriptions of how a cop commits suicide to a description of a little boy hit by a car coming back from buying bread. In universe, the creatures consider ''our'' world a nightmare, and treat things from our reality the same way we treat creatures from theirs.