YMMV / Four Past Midnight

• Complete Monster: In The Library Policeman, the creature currently known as Ardelia Lortz is a parasitic monster that feeds on the fear and pain of children. Taking a host and enslaving those with it, Lortz hunts down children to inflict horrific nightmares on them and drain them of their fear and pain, eventually killing them and leaving those around her broken. Returning for the story's hero Sam Peebles, Lortz even manipulates him with painful visions of the man who raped him as a child to make him her newest host.