There’s something deliciously eerie about the way Stephen King pulls characters from one book and tucks them into another like he’s building his own cinematic universe— minus the spandex and post-credit scenes. Case in point: Atropos. Creepy little characters who linger in your brain long after you’ve closed the book. If you’ve read ‘Insomnia’, you’ll know him as small, twitchy, mean as hell, and weirdly obsessed with scissors and string. And yes, also has a habit of messing with people’s fates. But here’s where things get interesting. Atropos doesn’t just exist in ‘Insomnia’. There’s a strong chance we’ve seen his influence before— in ‘The Langoliers’, of all places. Yeah, those chomping meatball creatures that devour the past and kinda look like rejected Pac-Man villains.