If You Call Yourself A Stephen King Fan, You Can't Skip These 5 Short Stories By Him

Stephen King has written over 200 short stories, and even his Constant Readers can be forgiven for not hitting every single one–even if they should.

April 12, 2025 · 1 min · 76 words · Candace Hamilton

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At over 200 short stories, readers can be forgiven for missing a few.

Even so, what it manages to pack in its scant pages is remarkable.

1The Ledge

Writing a genuinely scary story is hard.

Covers of The Night Shift and Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

Writing it in a few pages is harder.

And writing it so that the terror is contained to a single setting is hardest of all.

And yet, that’s what King manages to do with “The Ledge.”

A vampire child taps on the window while smiling in Salem’s Lot 1978

Stephen King with the covers of Skeleton Crew and You Like It Darker behind him

An image of Stephen King smiling and wearing a light blue shirt and a stack of books and blood splatters as the background

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A newspaper article from the short film adaptation of Stephen King’s Strawberry Spring

A still from the short film based on Stephen King’s “One for the Road” - three men stand in a street at night

Stephen Kings Skeleton Crew featuring Mrs Todds Shortcut

The book cover of Night Shift by Stephen King.

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