10 Stephen King Stories That Haven't Been Adapted Yet (But Should)

King, of course, has written many disturbing tales over the years, but few as consistently bleak as his short story Strawberry Spring, recently made into an Audible series but left baffling untouched by the big screen. 

Told from the perspective of a melancholy former college student whose memories of murder are stirred by the return of an elusive local serial killer, Strawberry Spring builds to a conclusion that feels inevitable, but King's slow-burn reveal and love for creepy ambiguity still makes its conclusions deeply unsettling. 

Published in 1968, the story is one of King's earliest works, but it's lost none of its bite and never reads as amateurish, its slight but profound narration capturing a world of feeling and forgotten memories difficult to shake. 

You can see Strawberry Spring as a movie - a lonely man recounts the tale of a murderer, lost to his thoughts and evading the truth - and this classic King tale is as tragic as it is horrifying, packing a mean punch.