The Book Designed To Cause NIGHTMARES

[SpikeSmeagol]

"Something about it seems off"

The train has teeth, Michael

[Mr.Pancake-]

For me it’s the eyes. All of the other characters have cartoonish and soft eyes, while the train has these jarringly realistic eyes

[firehawk]

The Dark Tower series is one of my all-time favorites and Charlie the Choo Choo lives rent free in my head.

[geboaebo]

The reveal that it was actually Stephen King is such a post credit marvel scene thing

[TibsisTops]

Lots of people have mentioned the face is horrific because of the teeth, but I'd argue it's the gums. Lots of anthropomorphized characters have teeth that we instinctively accept without question. But the gums, so fleshy and prominent, push the smile into the uncanny valley.

[puphcp]

I love when fictional media within media is defictionalized

[sugarlol]

Gonna tell my kids this is Thomas the Tank Engine.

[SlySpectre]

Is that where that Choo Choo Charles game came from? Now that I see myself typing the question I realize it probably is. lol

[littlebigcomrade]

This is the best kind of horror, the one that makes you think everything’s fine but you can’t ever quite fully believe it’s safe.

[Astrix_Jaeger]

You noticed that fine detail where there are no coals while engineer guy was looking that the coal storage.. The children were the coal.

[bertiemacklin]

The train driver also looks like the clothes you wore at a concentration camp

[crash]

"Blaine is a pain"

I love the dark tower series

[Im_The_Roms]

"Turns alright at the end"
...
"Or does it?"
**vsauce theme intensifies**

[avocado]

His face alone is enough to make this a horror story.

[minetruly]

"the story in this book was deliberately intended to give children nightmares"

*Flashes back to Scary Stories to Read in the Dark*

[eliasujashvili]

I think you’re the only one that gives nightmares here Vsauce 💀

[Lestyrin]

Vsauce is living proof that you dont need to be locked up in a basement to go insane

[jacksong.]

Stephen King really found a way to make Thomas the Tank Engine creepier.

That’s pretty impressive.

[lemonys___]

"ARE these children laughing... or screaming? WAWAWAWAW〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️"

[everythingfun]

Origin story of how choo choo Charles started.