Stephen King
Stephen King is a widely known horror novelist whose stories are mostly about his hatred of cars. Struck by a Dodge Caravan while walking down the road in Maine in 1999, he developed a lifelong loathing for both road vehicles and the state of Maine, which both make frequent appearances as sources of evil and malice in his work.
| Stephen King | |
|---|---|
| |
| "That car looks evil." | |
| STATUS: ALIVE | |
| Years active | 1974 - Present |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Fighting style | Jaywalking |
| Favorite food | Lobster |
| Major arcana | XIII Death |
| Charisma | 12 (+1) |
| Drops | 10-15 oz. cocaine |
Notable stories in which a car is evil
- Roadwork (A guy kills a bunch of people to protest a new highway bypass, which will be used by cars)
- Cujo (The protagonist's Ford Pinto breaks down when attempting to escape the eponymous rabid dog, leading to her son's death by heatstroke and dehydration)
- The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (Graphic scene in which a child is run over and killed by a Chevy)
- The Dead Zone (The protagonist is in a car accident as a teenager, leaving him comatose for five years. An FBI agent is later killed via car bomb.)
- The Stand (The infection is first spread by a man crashing his car into a gas station, infecting the patrons and first responders)
- Christine (The whole novel is literally about an evil car)
- Misery (The protagonist, a novelist, is held prisoner by an unhinged fan of his work after a car accident)
- Gerald's Game (The protagonist escapes from her confinement only to crash her car during her escape)
- Needful Things (A character loses his wife and son in a car accident)
- Insomnia (The protagonist has visions of a car killing a friend and her daughter, and is killed by the car at the end of the novel)
- Rose Madder (The protagonist's family died in a car accident prior to the beginning of the novel)
- The Regulators (Several people are shot and killed by the occupants of mysterious colorful vans summoned by an evil otherworldly being)
- From A Buick 8 (An invulnerable car acts as a portal to a parallel, hostile dimension inimical to human life)
- Duma Key (The protagonist suffers brain damage after his truck is crushed by a crane)
- Under the Dome (A secondary antagonist is a used car salesman)
- Mr. Mercedes (The novel opens with a mass murder at a job fair using a car)
- Revival (The deuteragonist's family is killed in a car accident)
- Mile 81 (Another story explicitly about an evil car; this one eats people.)
- Later (The protagonist is traumatized at an early age by a man who was recently killed in a car accident getting back up and waving at him)
It's worth noting that evil cars have made fewer appearances in his work as time goes on. This trend may signify an end to Stephen King's pathological hatred for vehicles. But I can't really say for sure because I haven't read like anything from him past like 2008 so who knows.
