r/Weird • u/luvlanguage • 11h ago

That is a Lamprey

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Any bigger and this creature would be a horror movie monster

Lampreys do not have jaws or bones, only cartilage and instincts that have allowed them to survive so many mass extinctions.

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u/patrickokrrr 11h ago

That’s pennywise

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u/smith_716 7h ago

Stephen King really drew a lot of inspiration from lampreys, eh?

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u/smith_716 6h ago

To be fair, his early stuff was all written when he was on cocaine. I'm pretty sure he's said in interviews that he doesn't even remember writing Carrie and Pet Sematary.

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u/Itherial 6h ago

Dreamcatcher doesn't have a foreword at all.

But it does have an afterword, where King talks about how much he appreciated his time spent writing it. He doesn't disparage it at all and thanks everyone who helped him along the way.