As he suffocates, he sees the Outsider watching him, before going unconscious and being cut down by his neighbor. Having lost his entire family, Frank's father, Ted, attempts to hang himself in his backyard. As Terry lays dying, he confirms his innocence to Ralph. Frank's older brother, Ollie, pulls a gun on Terry to avenge his brother and mother, fatally shooting the man before being gunned down himself by Ralph.

Frank's mother also has a heart attack and dies, further feeding the Outsider.Īs Terry is being delivered to the Flint City courthouse for his arraignment hearing, the incomplete Outsider shows up to revel in the crowd's chaos and is briefly seen by lead Detective Ralph Anderson and his partner, Yune Sablo. Terry's daughter, Grace, is visited multiple times by the Outsider, who torments her over her father's death. The Outsider then collects the blood of ex-convict Claude Bolton and begins a new transformation. He then leaves Frank's corpse in the local park.Ī number of eyewitnesses confirm that they saw Terry with Frank Peterson before the murder and Terry with blood on himself afterwards, leading to the real Terry being arrested in front of the entire town for the crime. The Outsider then rapes Frank with a tree branch, driving it so far up his anal cavity that it comes out of his stomach, biting off chunks of his throat, chest, and stomach, and finishing by ejaculating on the body. Months later, the Outsider completes his transformation into Terry and uses his van to travel to Flint City, Oklahoma, and abduct Terry's eleven-year-old baseball student, Frank Peterson.

After the Outsider flees town in a stolen van, Heath is falsely convicted of the crime and hangs himself in jail. The Outsider proceeds to hide the girls' bloody underwear in Heath's house and hides out in a nearby cemetery to feed on the grief of the girls' loved ones. He then steals the blood of Terry Maitland as his next target. The Outsider then transforms himself into Heath and steals a vehicle, using it to lure two young girls away before violently raping and murdering them, before ejaculating on their bodies.

Having murdered people for many years, the Outsider eventually shows up in Dayton, Ohio, where he collects the blood of a retirement home orderly named Heath Hodges. The Outsider is a paranormal shape-shifter that feeds on humans and their suffering. Serving as the titular main antagonist of the novel The Outsider, it’s TV series of the same name and the posthumous overarching antagonist of the novella If It Bleeds.

The Outsider, also known as El Cuco is a supporting antagonist of the Stephen King multiverse.

The outsider book series