Stephen King's "N" first 5 episodes merged

[jttwaddle]

One of SK's best short stories. If you liked this one, try reading "Nona" or "Survivour Type". Both deal largely in losing one's sanity.

[jttwaddle]

Personally, "N." is one of my favourite short stories by The King. If you liked the video you'll really enjoy reading the tale. Another great tale of his regarding obsession is "Nona".

[LorThemarTheron]

61

6+1=7...

OOOH NOOO

[FDTheBlackPestilence]

5 episodes merged...

5 is not really a good number. :)

[tripod]

"CTHUN! CTHUN!" this is an OCD person's nightmare

[SomethingAwesome19XX]

maybe IT is the same a tak?

[Meckerschling]

omg i absolutly love this story!

[redfox064]

This is slightly very freaky!

[JorgensZelda]

Is N. played by Stephen King? I wish I knew who did the voice for N. Sounds a bit like Anthony Heald.

[adgato75]

i think that both IT and this creature may be the same as the monsters in the todash darkness. if u read IT and the dark tower books there is a similarity to the todash darkness and the deadlights where Bill D. sees IT's true form.

[tcrimson]

is it me (probably is) or does the image on one of the rocks at 4:56 look like...clown, i.e. Pennywise? which given the mythology of IT would make perfect sense...what do ya think?

[adgato75]

@tcrimson it fitsa bit. if u read the dark tower books, it seems that both IT and this creature are similar to or ARE the creatures in the todash darkness. there seems to be a similarity to the todash darkness and the deadlights where Bill D. sees IT's true shape.

[xColdTurkeyFilmsx]

Amazing

[dylanwarner26]

me encanta esta historia.....la acabo de leer y me encató!!!.......una maravilla!!!

amo a stephen king

[redstrabrerreez]

i finnished this story last night, and i had such a restless night's sleep lol.

usually i can stand stephen king's stories because they're about the supernatural and it's easy to kinda tell yourself that it really couldn't happen, but this one was almost too realistic. i'm glad i read this story and everything but i don't think i could ever re-read it haha.

[Sojourno]

I have to say im a HUGE King fan and when i read this story in Just after Sunset i had major goosebumps.

It freaked me right the f out.

I mean, i've written everything he's ever written and this Never happened before.

Great video

[JoHnStUmP]

yeah king really hit it the spot on this one

[venusboys3]

A well done mash up of Arthur Machen, Colin Wilson and the recent Bug movie.

[JorgensZelda]

@venusboys3 You know, that Arthur Machen the Great God Pan wasn't very good. It had a lot of good build-up and then went nowhere. It would have been better if they had explained the monster or the other world a bit better. Or at least explained whether the people were destroyed by what they saw or if the girl actually compelled them purposely. All the same, I love N.

[venusboys3]

No, I don't know that... not everyone needs explanations for all that stuff... a lot of us prefer that some mystery remain in place, to let our own imaginations fill in the shadows.

It's not a matter of 'good' or 'bad'... just a difference in taste.

[JorgensZelda]

@venusboys3 I felt it left more questions than it answered and I was more confused than chilled. I mean, it felt like it had the bones of a great story, but somewhere it kind of fell apart for me. I don't mind the lack of a resolution, in fact, I like that about some of Stephen King and HP Lovecraft's stories. I just felt like it could have used more detail in some places. It felt more like a summary than a story, I guess.

[adgato75]

@JorgensZelda the ambiguity is part of the message in the stories. one of the scariest parts of "n" is the implication that it isnt a monster at all, but the sad story of a man losing his grip on reality, and pulling others down with him through a shared delusion.

[JorgensZelda]

@adgato75 Like I said, I don't mind the lack of a resolution. It's just that, for most of "The Great God Pan" I'm just like, "Dude, share the delusion. A bunch of people meet a woman (she might be crazy, she might be a demon) and they die (they might be compelled, they might be murdered, they might have been driven mad) and she moves on. Is she a serial killer? Is she possessed? Is she really a demon who showed them some dimension that can't be comprehended by the ordered mind? WTF happened?"

[JorgensZelda]

@adgato75 I feel like a story, while it doesn't need a resolution, shouldn't make me spend the entire length of the story going "Um, WHAT?" Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, HP Lovecraft, among others, were very good at blurring the line between the supernatural and madness. Machen, not so much. Sorry.

[adgato75]

@JorgensZelda yeah thats true. i think the main reason is that its so old that the story doesnt have the same emphasis for modern readers. the choices he made in that story highlight things that would be scary to readers back then, but not so much now. since a lot of horror is based on subconcious subversion of cultural taboos and mores, it often doesnt keep up with shifts in morality or modern beliefs. plus machens writing style is dated, which can be distracting.

[JorgensZelda]

@adgato75 That might be it. His narrative structure doesn't help. It's like a diary run amok. It's definitely a sign of a great horror writer when their work still frightens people decades or even centuries later. I think that Poe has stood the test of time and so has HP Lovecraft. A few others come to mind. A lot of their contemporaries seem tame, even bland by today's standards.

[Tachoman6te]

N. was amazing, and this is pretty cool, but the got N. wrong, I always imagined him being like james woods.

[AngelCakeEnterprises]

I'm reading Just After Sunset now, and I just finished N. - seriously freaked me out it was great :D

Stephen King rules he should do short stories more often xD

[crwhitneythegreat]

I read N. and it was one of the scariest shorts lately. Well, I have OCD and I am earning a degree to become a counselor...

Spook Out

[tutifruti666]

i liked just after sunset but wat was the things they left behind all about? i didnt get it

[snowbunny84720]

It was about September 11th the guy would have been killed in the twin towers but he called in sick than items that used to belong to his coworkers that had died began appearing so he could give them back to their families

[kpl54o]

anyone notice the book came out on 11-11-08? add em up to 30? very good number. i dono, maybe im lookin in to it too much haha. still fun tho

[evilkikiss]

very good number!

[Sojourno]

@kpl54o your not looking to much into it. 5 more words make 12

[noo2islam]

Hi. I've finished listening the "N" story yesterday. I got it in the audio book Juste avant le crépuscul (Just after sunset in French).That`s freaking sick. The other I really loved is: La fille pain d`épice = The gingerbread girl. If you haven`t you really must to read that one.

[TheErasr]

The voice actor for N. is bad. He sounds robotic - no emotion.

[varrin7]

Is Stephen King the voice of N?

[Apocrypha2012]

This is a great story. I wish it was available as episodes 1-25 in one video.

[Guigley]

I'm amazed that Stephen King keeps finding ways to show is that he is one of greatest literary geniuses of all time, after all these years. Thanks for posting these.

[DystopianAwakening]

I know this is a really trippy story. I loved it.

[baldassano2008]

what if i said i knew "N"

hes a dude who works in my building (its an office building)

[hyaena1]

You'd be an idiot, considering "N" is a fictional character.

[ufo504]

where are episodes 1 - 8?? sum 1 plz answer, thanks heaps.

[K4driver2]

did anyone else find a dark tower reference in the story....."add up to 19....Bad number very bad number"

[00MORDRED]

@K4driver2 I remember Roland was always noticing that

number 19....eddie dean would make reference to it towards the

end of the series...some ppl say stephen king is a mason...

:o)

[dionysoscub]

Really appreciate you compiling this and putting here for us! Thank u!!

[phlogistonly]

thanks for merging this!

[ceck22120185]

YES!thanks loads!!!its really annoying having to watch the opening and closing credits over and over on the unmerged episodes!!your efforts are much appreciated :) :)

[raylone13]

thanks for bunching them up makes it much more enjoyable