Stephen King and eye injuries

[Cody44]

Two more eye related incidents in the Drawing of the Three:

In order to make Jack Mort obey, Roland threatens to poke out his right eye.

Also in drawing of the three, Roland has a daydream of a Lobstrocity clawing Eddie's face and ripping his eye out.

Eyes are a horrible thing to loose, and I believe it is used to target a primal fear we all have.

[Jack Frost]

And a couple more eye related moments in SK lore:


Eddie Kaspbrak stabs Henry Bowers in the eye with a broken Perrier bottle in It.
Also in It, the Losers Club is attacked in the sewers by a Giant Crawling Eye (complete with one of them plunging his arm into the Eye with notable SK graphic detail!)


I have a friend (who ironically is a SK fan, is from Maine, and has met the master) who completely freaks out at anything having to do with eyes. We used to sneak over to his computer and change his wallpaper to any gross eye picture we could find. Ahhhh....memories!

[Patricia A]

In literary History we have seen that the eyes are the windows to the soul. I personally think with stephen king's history of villians with interst in their victim's souls (Leland Gaunt and Pennywise just to name a couple) we can safely assume that the interest in the eyes has something if not everything to do with the capture of souls.

Like what you said and because it's scary.

[tigerlilly2k]

Has anyone else noticed that one of the most commonly reoccuring things in Stephen King's novels is someone losing an eye? I'm wondering if that's just a personal horror of Stephen's or something.

-George Stark stabs a cop through the eye in The Dark Half
-Alice gets an eye knocked out when a cinderblock is thrown at her head in Cell
-Cujo the dog gets stabbed through the eye with that broken bat
-The woman Pam in Rose Madder accidentally impales her eye on a coathook running from Norman
-I'm pretty sure Rogette Whitmore loses an eye when her face gets slammed on the dock in Bag of Bones
-Rachel Creed gets stabbed through the eye in Pet Sematary
-Tick Tock Man gets an eye scratched out by Oy in The Wastelands
-Crimson King gets an eye stabbed out by Ralph Roberts in Insomnia
-Randall Flagg is made to pull out his own eyes by Mordred
-Cuthbert gets shot in the eye by Flagg with an arrow
-Flagg gets shot in the eye with an arrow in Eyes of the Dragon
-Traschan Man loses an eye to radiation poisoning at the end of The Stand
-Nick Andros gets an eye gouged in the Stand and has to wear an eyepatch
-Lloyd's partner Poke gets an eye shot out at the beginning of the Stand
-I think Evan McCone loses an eye when Richards shoots his head in Running Man
-Ralph Carver loses his eyes to Tak in eagle form at the end of Desperation
-A girl in Regulators loses an eye in a shotgun blast
-A test subject in Firestarter claws out his eyes under the influence of drugs
-John Rainbird in Firestarter lost an eye in the Vietnam War
-A couple of the Tommyknockers have there eyes explode due to odd effects of the spaceship
-In Green Mile there was a kid who lost an eye when a dog bit his face

Actually, I heard...someplace...that SK is "
legally blind", himself, from a macular degenerative eye problem.
I wish I could remember where I heard this. Ive been curious ever since because I am legally blind from a macular degenerative problem, too--and I remember thinking when I heard, it, "OMG! Me and SK have something in common!"
I THINK I heard it from some "reliable" source on TV.

I even considered writing to him to ask how he writes...whether he uses a voice-to-text computer program or something.

Im not looking to start a rumor, believe me. I really did hear this. I wonder if it's true?

[tigerlilly2k]

COLOR ME WRONG!

I just looked in the FAQ's and SK does have a genetic predisposition toward macular degenerative disease but is NOT legally blind.
SORRY! Mea Culpa!