Books like One for the Road by Stephen King
One for the Road is a short story by Stephen King, first appearing in the March/April 1977 issue of Maine magazine. The story was later included in King's 1978 collection Night Shift, one of the author's earliest anthologies of horror tales.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: Horror/Supernatural Horror
Authors: Stephen King
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