Strawberry Spring
E192803
"Strawberry Spring" is a horror short story by Stephen King, originally published in his collection *Night Shift*, about a series of murders that occur during a foggy, out-of-season warm spell.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Strawberry Spring" | 2 |
| Strawberry Spring canonical | 1 |
| Strawberry Spring (audio drama) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1714731 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Strawberry Spring Context triple: [Night Shift, hasShortStory, Strawberry Spring]
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A.
The Day Before Spring
The Day Before Spring is a lesser-known 1945 Broadway musical with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, exploring themes of love, nostalgia, and marital fidelity.
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B.
Spring in Town
"Spring in Town" is a 1941 painting by American artist Grant Wood that idealizes rural Midwestern life through a meticulously detailed, nostalgic small-town scene.
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C.
Frühlingserwachen
Frühlingserwachen is the German codename for Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of World War II launched in Hungary in March 1945.
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D.
It Might as Well Be Spring
"It Might as Well Be Spring" is a popular 1945 song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, written for the film "State Fair" and now a standard of the American songbook.
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E.
Bluets
Bluets is a lyrical, genre-defying book by Maggie Nelson that blends memoir, philosophy, and poetic meditation through an obsessive focus on the color blue.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Strawberry Spring Target entity description: "Strawberry Spring" is a horror short story by Stephen King, originally published in his collection *Night Shift*, about a series of murders that occur during a foggy, out-of-season warm spell.
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A.
The Day Before Spring
The Day Before Spring is a lesser-known 1945 Broadway musical with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, exploring themes of love, nostalgia, and marital fidelity.
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B.
Spring in Town
"Spring in Town" is a 1941 painting by American artist Grant Wood that idealizes rural Midwestern life through a meticulously detailed, nostalgic small-town scene.
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C.
Frühlingserwachen
Frühlingserwachen is the German codename for Operation Spring Awakening, the last major German offensive of World War II launched in Hungary in March 1945.
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D.
It Might as Well Be Spring
"It Might as Well Be Spring" is a popular 1945 song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, written for the film "State Fair" and now a standard of the American songbook.
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E.
Bluets
Bluets is a lyrical, genre-defying book by Maggie Nelson that blends memoir, philosophy, and poetic meditation through an obsessive focus on the color blue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
horror short story
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| adaptationFormat | podcast ⓘ |
| adaptationPlatform | podcast streaming platforms ⓘ |
| adaptationProducer | Audio Up Media ⓘ |
| adaptationReleaseYear | 2021 ⓘ |
| author | Stephen King ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
atmospheric horror
ⓘ
hidden identity ⓘ serial murder ⓘ unreliable memory ⓘ |
| collectionPublicationYear | 1978 ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| firstPublishedInCollection | Night Shift ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
horror fiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Strawberry Spring (audio drama)
ⓘ
linked to:
Strawberry Spring
|
| hasMotif |
fog
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newspaper clippings ⓘ urban legend atmosphere ⓘ |
| influencedBy | campus horror tradition ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
foreshadowing
ⓘ
twist ending ⓘ unreliable narrator ⓘ |
| narrativePointOfView | first-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early example of Stephen King campus horror
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use of weather phenomenon as horror catalyst ⓘ |
| originalMedium | print ⓘ |
| partOf |
Night Shift (short story collection)
ⓘ
linked to:
Night Shift
|
| plotElement |
killer nicknamed Springheel Jack
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murders occur during a foggy warm spell ⓘ out-of-season warm spell called a strawberry spring ⓘ series of murders on a college campus ⓘ |
| protagonistRole | unnamed male narrator ⓘ |
| publicationType | short story collection contribution ⓘ |
| publisherOfCollection | Doubleday ⓘ |
| setting |
New Sharon College
ⓘ
fictional New England college ⓘ |
| timePeriodInStory |
eight years before the narrator recounts events
ⓘ
late 1960s ⓘ |
| tone |
dark
ⓘ
suspenseful ⓘ |
| workOf | Stephen King bibliography ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
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Input
Subject: Strawberry Spring Description of subject: "Strawberry Spring" is a horror short story by Stephen King, originally published in his collection *Night Shift*, about a series of murders that occur during a foggy, out-of-season warm spell.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Strawberry Spring
linked to: Strawberry Spring
linked to: Strawberry Spring