Charles Burnside
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Charles Burnside, né Carl Bierstone, is a fictional character within the pages of the Stephen King and Peter Straub collaboration Black House, itself a sequel to their first joint effort, The Talisman.
He is an eighty-five year old serial killer of little children, and in the book it is implied that he has killed at least a hundred of them. In the novel Black House, he is shown to be the willing host for a demonic entity known as Mr. Munshun, and it is the combination of Charles/Carl and Mr. Munshun which has made him such an effective killing maching for the last several decades.
His actions -killing children and eating parts of them -mirror to a great extent the actions of the real-life child killer, Albert Fish.
