I was interested to read on Wikipedia that Children of the Corn had so many sequels. I only read about a few of them, but in one it looks like He Who Walks Behind The Rows was revealed to be a tentacle monster and one of the kids stabs it to death, so that's great. It makes me glad that King doesn't typically write sequels. Some things are better left at their best.

I could see The Boogeyman getting to a person more when hearing their own kids get scared of the dark, or of monsters in the closet, that sort of thing. You'd have to wonder, well, what if there really is a monster in the closet? What if I just can't see it? That's an angle I hadn't considered, being the barren, solitary, cold-hearted creature I am. Neat thought. King must have been a father himself by the time he wrote that one.

But I still don't get why it would pretend to be his psychologist.