"Strawberry Spring" is a horror short story by Stephen King. It was originally published in the Fall 1968 issue of Ubris magazine, [1] then republished in the November 1975 issue of Cavalier magazine, and, heavily revised, collected in King's Night Shift in 1978. [2]

At New Sharon, the strawberry spring began on 16 March 1968. The coldest winter in twenty years broke on that day. It rained and you could smell the sea twenty miles west of the beaches. The snow, which had been thirty-five inches deep in …

“Strawberry Spring” is about a series of grisly murders that occurred on campus while the narrator was a senior at the college. A local newspaper dubs the elusive murderer Springheel Jack after the 19th-century English serial killer Dr. John Hawkins who murdered his five wives (187).

Strawberry Spring is a short story, by Stephen King, published originally in the Fall 1968 issue of Ubris. Later published in the collection of short stories Night Shift, in February 1978, and in the anthology An International Treasury of Mystery and Suspense, in October 1983.

Stephen King’s Strawberry Spring was a weather phenomenon invented for the story. The term refers to a false spring or unusually warm and foggy spell of weather in a Maine winter. But because King’s work is so popular, the term has entered the lexicon to some degree.

Strawberry Spring: With Sydney Sweeney, Garrett Hedlund, Milo Ventimiglia, Herizen F. Guardiola. A podcast based on Stephen King's short story from his novel Night Shift. A journalist becomes interested in a serial killer named Springheel Jack, a killer who kills every eight years using a seasonal, dense fog as cover.

“Strawberry Spring” is a classic horror story that ends with a plot twist. King’s unassuming narrator lulls readers into believing in his innocence. He is just as scared and confused as everyone else on campus when the murders occur.

In this story by Stephen King, a serial killer stalks women in a small college community. The murders, which always take place at night, become increasingly vicious. Set in a rare false (strawberry) spring, thick fog provides perfect cover for the killer. Panic sets in as students realize the killer could be anyone on campus.

Based on the short story by Stephen King, Strawberry Spring is a scripted podcast set against the backdrop of the sixties revolution on the campus of New Sharon College. We follow a generation of students who don't trust authority, the futile efforts of the local police, and a young, determined reporter as he chases the bloody trail of ...

After vanishing and leaving his murders unsolved, Jack is back—along with a new Strawberry Spring, a weather pattern with an unusual fog bank that rolls in every eight years. Using the fog to hide his tracks, he taunts New Sharon with fresh kills, each murder more violent than the last.