Harper recommends making future appointments with the nurse. Billings convinced the police that Andy had attempted to climb out of his crib during the night and broken his neck.Īs Billings finishes his story and starts to leave, Dr. He later returned home at dawn, called the police, and discovered Andy's corpse on the floor with the closet door ajar. Billings, upon seeing the creature throttling Andy, fled to a local 24-hour diner. That night, Andy cried "Boogeyman!" while being put to bed and, an hour later, was attacked and killed by the Boogeyman. Not long after, Rita leaves to take care of her ill mother, leaving Billings and Andy alone.įeeling the malevolent presence growing bolder in his wife's absence, Billings began to panic, and decided to move Andy to a separate bedroom, knowing that the monster would go for him. Billings believes that the monster eventually tracked his family down, intruding the house and slithering around at night. A year passes without incident with Andy sleeping in the master bedroom with Billings and Rita. The only commonalities were that the children cried " Boogeyman!" before being left alone, and the closet door ajar after discovering their corpses, even though Billings is certain the door was shut.Īpproximately a year after their second child's death, Billings' wife Rita became pregnant with their son Andy and subsequently moved to a different neighborhood far from the old one. His first two children died mysteriously of apparently unrelated causes (diagnosed as crib death and convulsions, respectively) when left alone in their bedrooms. Harper, a psychiatrist, where a man named Lester Billings talks to the doctor about the "murders" of his three young children, describing the events of the past several years. The story takes place in the office of Dr.
"The Boogeyman" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March 1973 issue of the magazine Cavalier, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.
1973 short story by Stephen King The Boogeyman
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