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Here There Be Tygers

First published: 1968

Charles wanted to go to the bathroom badly, but was too embarrassed to ask his teacher.

Once at the bathroom Charles encountered another problem - there was a hungry tiger there.

The tiger attacked Kenny Griffen, and later Miss Bird, the teacher.

Notes
The title references the phrases used by medieval cartographers when they put warnings on unexplored portions of their maps. The phrase was also used in King's later story "The Reploids." In the movie version of "The Dark Half" the story Thedore's mother looks at is a copy of this story.

As King noted in the Foreword to Skeleton Crew, this is one of the first stories King ever wrote, actually written when King himself was still in high school.



Characters

?, Bill Character in a book "Roads to Everywhere"
?, Charles Boy who knows the truth of the Tigers
Bird, Miss Charles' third grade teacher
Griffen, Kenneth Killed by the tiger in the toilet
Kinney, Miss Third grade teacher
Scott, Cathy In school with Charles
Tiger, The Hungry beast that lived in the school bathroom
Trask, Mrs. Third grade teacher





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