Strawberry Spring -- An Early Stephen King Story 

This Reading is Very Relaxing for me. I'm Here. 2023. ❤ 🐰

My all time favorite author

I’m really glad that I found these stories. Stephen King has been my favorite author ever since I was a kid back in the 80’s. One of the very first books I ever read was King’s “It” and then I saw the movie. I loved to read his books and then get to see them turned into movies. I started to read the “Dark tower” series of books,a process that took years to read. The narrator really does a great job bringing these stories to life and I’m hoping that I can find some narrations of the Dark tower books.

I noticed by the end that I already read this short story in my mother language when I was a teenager. I remember getting the creeps when he says he finds the word “trunk” ugly. Stephen King is amazing

This reading was superb! 🤌🏻

I was introduced to Mr. King in high school in the early 70"s. Strawberry Spring was a story printed in The Scholastic Reader which was distributed in my public school. Nothing had ever approached this short story within that publication before. I was hooked on this young writer!

Great to find these stories. King and I are roughly the same age and I went to a college in New England, the University of Rhode Island. He captures that era very well.

1968 ... just getting into his groove. This is what began the repeating cycles. Not just another repeat. Good stuff special for its time

I came across this channel last night n I'm enjoying it so far....ur voice is really calming 😌

I love Stephen King!

Good reading 👍

One of my favorite King stories. Really spooky.

Well done!

I thought about this story today as I was getting home from work. The weather had been unusually warm and wet for this time of year and my bus was going past the University Park. I saw what it looked like: all foggy and dark, the lamps shining through the haze, making these big halos, all very magical and mysterious and remembered: "we're having a honest to goodness strawberry spring, like in that story!" I felt an urge to get out of the bus and walk around there. I don't think I did, and neither did I commit any wrongdoings on my way home, as far as I can tell.

How I had missed this fabulously creepy story until now is beyond me! Jeez, Steve-O... at 20 years old you could make a grown woman feel the need to sleep with the lights on.

I listen to the audio book at work was hooked instantly! Great short story king never fails!

I just bought Graveyard Shift. I had no idea he had short story and novella collections. I’m not a fan of his newest work, but I like the older stuff. Great narration. Fantastic voice.

This is a favorite of mine, because that last line just sticks with you. "And, oh dear God, I think so, too." Goosebumps.

I hadn't read this one. Thanks. I figured out who did it early on, but kept listening because it was written extremely well. I recently bought bathroom scales with the name THINNER on it and remembered reading an early story of King's under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. I hope I don't lose too much weight. :) Jon in rural BC, Canada

this is so good. Love the early Stephen King. That's when he was at his best.

Solid reading! I'm from New England and this kind of weather is real.

Killin' it with these videos! Well done sir!

I'm looking for something to take my mind off my husband's appointment he has tomorrow. A sigmoidoscopy. To find out if the cancer is gone. Im trusting God it's gone. Glad I found myself here. This wasn't an accident. It's a God hug. Love one another. You never know

He had me hooked with Salem's Lot. Been a steady customer ever since.❤😂❤😂

This reading was *chef's kiss*

Wonderfully read! Thank you!

Strawberry Spring sounds like it should be lovely but this story definitely says that it is not good at all. Great narrator. I had read many Stephen King books but hadn't heard of this short story.

One of the best of his early stories. That, *twist*.

What excellent storytelling.. 👏 Thank you so much!

One of my all-time favourite King stories, and it's always been my pick for his most "underrated" one. I would love to see it done as a short film, although of course it works best in the format it's in. Fantastic reading! You really evoked its haunting imagery.

Quietly, he sneaks up on his audience and, in the end, reveals what I hated the most to believe.

Very well done. Thanks for doing this 😊

Love it. Read the story eons ago, but so nice to hear it read! 😍🇦🇺

Quite a twist at the end....don't forget king was only 20 in 1968....that's impressive asf...damn how did he do it

Outstanding! Great reading,speed and delivery!!!

This is the best reading of this 4:06 story that I have ever heard! Thank you.

Excellent reading!

Wonderful reading and I love the images you chose. I read this story before I went to college in New England 30 years ago. I thought of it every time I walked anywhere in this kind of weather and gave myself a chill. It's so evocative.

Simply, thank you.

Thank you for sharing this story. 😊

One of his best, stays with me I forget how much I loved his early tales.

now this is something else

Thank you so much for this! Enjoyed soooo much

Stephen King 😌 Ole Reliable

Another great job narrating from my favorite book of short stories by Stephen King. Nicely done-great tone, pitch, and timing. Awesome job, once again! Looking forward to more!!!

Excellent work with this. Still impressed that it came so early in his career...

The name came from the way the original killer lept over fences and walls to escape unidentified. Not because he "left no footprints". "It was as if he had springs in the heels of his boots." Makes quite a bit more sense, does it not?

Thank you for an incredible audiobook presentation. I enjoy the worls of Stephen King. Am currently reading my nth novel by him, was great to breeze through this one as an audio version. Cheers

2 more days! 😢. Ok time to set the notification!!😊😊

Wonderful narration!

Lovely nod to Sandburg. Your visuals are very effective.

I've always loved this little tale. ❤

Good story - great storyteller ❤

This was brilliant.x

ive loved him since i was ten...in the 1980's noone cared what kids read. they should. these arent good for kids,.,,anyhow i love your channel sir. read so well.

That was something else. Awesome narration 🤌

i remember this story and this was great.

Smooth velvet nervesooting voice❤😊 7:53

Oustanding story. Outstanding reading. ❤️

LOVE THIS THANK YOU YOU TUBE AND STEPHEN KING ❤

Oh, such a treat!!!

AMAZING!!! I Love Stephen King

Thanks this was such s good story❤

Easily my favorite of his early stories. Such a creepy one

Great job! Your voice is very calming and engaging.

Great narration!

Hey great story. Glad this was the first I heard

I love this , wish there was more

So glad to have found this! Been a King fan since (1970?). Wasn’t this story eventually combined in a book with others, into a collection of short stories?

Well read! Subtle sound effects. No AI. Well done. 👍

Excellent job reading this one, dude.

Stumbled on your channel after listening to the Appalachian Story Teller. I'm subscribed whatever that means cuz youtube never notifies when something new comes up.

Love this

Thank you, very nice💗

Stephen King is the Elvis of authors❤. I love his short stories, short and to the point!!

Your voice is so smooth. Wish I could also do that for my videos.

Just found you, loved your reading 😊

Nicely read.

The ending was amazing.😊

"Not on little cat's feet." Best line ever..

I read this one years ago. Grest little story.

The end was very predictable, but i really loved this story. Tha k you for reading it.

Great I came across this channel

Great reading

I’m beyond appreciative of free audiobooks, but holy crap…I can hear the dry mouth in every sentence and my misophonia is triggered so hard 🤣 why am I like this?! 😭

Interesting story. Merci. Diolch.

Love the ending

Goosebumps

Wow this voice is magical 🪄🤍

This is incredible! Loved the reading, it captured the creepy atmosphere so well.

So the narrator was the killer

spooky i loved it

I love Constant Reader

Worked it out early on but well narrated.

I knew from the beginning predictable. Very much enjoyed it though. Thankyou. Now onto boogyman 😮

Another home run

Future stories easily seen in this. 😊

I have to admit something, I can't listen to audiobooks at all. I don't know what happened in this story... But I liked the reading. Good job :)

It's too quiet. The next video on my playlist would wake me up.