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I think Rianbird is one of King’s scariest characters. His cobination of high insight, low empathy and mystical obsession with the moment of death is a powerful cocktail. Seeing his work with precision and dispassionate skill to manipulate a little girl that he admires and intends to kill is much more horrifying than the vampire rising from its coffin in ‘Salem’s Lot.