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"The Man in the Black Suit"
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Montagg
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 		"The Man in the Black Suit"
Hey all! Long-time reader, first-time writer. I've been following this forum for several months now, and I finally made an account last week and thought this would be perfect for me to share with you all as my first post!

My uncle lent me a copy of Everything's Eventual by Stephen King a few weeks ago. It's a compilation of several short stories he wrote that came out a few years ago. (This particular story was first published in 1995.) I'd never read anything by King before so I got to it and have been thoroughly enjoying it so far. After reading the first story though, I turned the page to see "The Man in the Black Suit" in big letters on the next page, and my heart skipped a beat. I read through it, with our black-suited friend in the forefront of my mind the entire time. As creepy as this story might have been, it suddenly became a hundred times more creepy for me. Have any of you read this? One of my friends (and fellow fan) had read the story but now she looks at it in a whole new way. Does this change anything for any of you?

An excerpt...
"A man in his nineties should be well past the terrors of childhood, but as my infirmities slowly creep up on me, like waves licking closer and closer to some indifferently built castle of sand, that terrible face grows clearer and clearer in my mind's eye. It glows like a dark star in the constellations of my childhood. What I might have done yesterday, who I might have seen here in my room at the nursing home, what I might have said to them or they to me...those things are gone, but the face of the man in the black suit grows ever clearer, ever closer, and I remember every word he said. I don't want to think of him but I can't help it, and sometimes at night my old heart beats so hard and so fast I think it will tear itself right clear of my chest. So I uncap my fountain pen and force my trembling old hand to write this pointless anecdote in the diary one of my great-grandchildren -- I can't remember her name for sure, at least not right now, but I know it starts with an S -- gave to me last Christmas, and which I have never written in until now. Now I will write in it. I will write the story of how I met the man in the black suit on the bank of the Castle Stream one afternoon in the summer of 1914."
-Stephen King

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G.I.R
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 		Oh god wat.

Stephen King is the Slenderman! It makes so much sense!

But really that is creepy... Is there more to the story?

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Dray
Pretty talky there aintcha, Talky?


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 		Ah Stephen King, that scoundrel. Unfortunately, having recently watched Buba Ho-tep, I can only see this elderly man as an ancient Elvis impersonator, which kind of ruins it a little! But good find, in any case!

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Slendery
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 		Old news, this was mentioned in the original Slender Man SA thread, but relevant nonetheless.

PostPosted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 2:25 pm
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