You’d think that the author of some of the most chilling books in the English language would be totally immune to the fears he so enjoys dredging up in the rest of us. But it seems even Stephen King has his terrors, and one of the specters looming over his bed is none other than Donald Trump.

“A Trump presidency scares me more than anything else,” he told The Washington Post’s Ron Charles during a Facebook Live interview on Saturday. “I'm terrified that he'll become president.”

King previously offered Rolling Stone some criticism of the Republican nominee. “I think that he's sort of the last stand of a sort of American male who feels like women have gotten out of their place and they're letting in all these people that have the wrong skin colors,” he said.

King is never one to overlook fear, which is what he says is driving Trump’s popularity amongst voters.

“The key chord to all of this is fear,” he said during The Washington Post’s chat. “We’re afraid the government is going to take away our guns, we're afraid that Mexico is going to invade the United States, we're afraid of this, we're afraid of that, we're afraid of taxes, we're afraid of transgender bathrooms — the whole thing. As long as people are fearful it’s hard to have a rational discussion.”