Stephen King has created more than a few memorable monsters in his time – from the vampiric terror Kurt Barlow in Salem’s Lot to the child-eating Pennywise The Dancing Clown in IT – and the latest addition to the author’s live-action canon is a terrifying one.
Without getting into too many details this early in the game, The Long Boy is a creature that a person really shouldn’t get anywhere near, as a wrong step means an eternity of torturous hell.
The brief glimpse we get at him in the first episode of Lisey’s Story is a properly freaky one, but it’s also hard not to notice that the miniseries version differs greatly from the one described in the novel.