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Wow, I really thought Stephen King was original, but this is a blatant rip off of an episode of Night Visions from 2002 called "Patterns".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660998/

I wish I could downvote.

King in interviews and in the book itself said the story was inspired by Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan stating: "Not Lovecraft; it’s a riff on Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan,” which is one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language. Mine isn’t anywhere near that good, but I loved the chance to put neurotic behavior—obsessive/compulsive disorder—together with the idea of a monster-filled macroverse." So, if anything, "Patterns" ripped off Machen.

>> ^AdrianBlack:

King in interviews and in the book itself said the story was inspired by Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan stating: "Not Lovecraft; it’s a riff on Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan,” which is one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language. Mine isn’t anywhere near that good, but I loved the chance to put neurotic behavior—obsessive/compulsive disorder—together with the idea of a monster-filled macroverse." So, if anything, "Patterns" ripped off Machen.


Actually no. Patterns is just this WITHOUT the monster stuff - so it didn't rip off Machen and King definitely ripped it off Patterns. Watch it and see for yourself.

I watched it, and I still disagree. I prefer to accept what King himself said as to where he gets his ideas rather than from a probie that doesn't really know.

Watched all 25. It was good, but not great. Haven't seen the other stuff though, so I can't comment on it being derivative.

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>> ^AdrianBlack:

I watched it, and I still disagree. I prefer to accept what King himself said as to where he gets his ideas rather than from a probie that doesn't really know.


Hahaha, what are you Stephen King's agent? You're obviously biased.

Let's see... both stories are about a man who has chronic OCD and believes he needs to do his rituals in order to save the world. If he stops, something really bad will happen that will cause the end of the world.

The psychologist obviously thinks the man is just suffering from a bad case of OCD and tries to rationalise with the patient to "prove" it's all in his head. But the patient says it's more than that; it's like a disease that can be transmitted to which the psychologists scoffs: "OCD is a mental illness, not a disease. It cannot be transmitted from person to person".

The patient (while not cured) eventually makes a small "breakthrough" and leaves never to see the doctor again. But now the psych has the OCD symptoms and learns the patient wasn't lying and it wasn't all in his head. Now the psych is the one who has to do the OCD rituals to save the world which drives him insane.

One was written prior to 2002 (Patterns) and one was written in 2008 (N). If you don't see the obvious similarities you are a moron mate. Good day