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" One for the Road " is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the March/April 1977 issue of Maine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift . Plot summary. The story is told by a man named Booth. Three years after the events of Salem's Lot, vampires still prowl the burned-out remains of Jerusalem's Lot and its environs.
A man in a fancy overcoat and white face staggers into Tookey's Bar in a blizzard and collapses. Tookey and Booth, the only customers, try to help him and learn his story.
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One for the Road is a short story written by Stephen King. The story was originally published in the March/April 1977 issue of Maine Magazine, and was later included in King's own 1978 collection Night Shift. The story functions as a sequel to King's 1975 novel Salem's Lot.
This tale is narrated in the first person by Booth, an elderly resident of a Falmouth, a small town that neighbors Jerusalem's Lot, Maine. The people of Flamouth are deeply Catholic, and wear holy relics to protect themselves from being on the border of a place haunted by vampires. Although Booth himself is a Protestant, he agrees that wearing a "P...
Type. Date. Night Shift. Story Collection. Unknown 1978. Strange Maine. Anthology. Unknown 1986. The page for Stephen King's Short Story: One for the Road.
Jan 1, 2001 · One for the Road: An Illustrated Story. Stephen King, James Hannah (Illustrator) 3.79. 838 ratings94 reviews. This much-loved tale is narrated by Booth, and elderly resident of a small Maine town that neighbors the infamous Jerusalem's Lot, and it takes place a couple of years after the events in King's novel.
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One for the Road by Stephen King. by Stephen King. ★ 9.34 / 3. An illustrated short story. Cover and interior art by James Hannah. This much-loved tale is narrated by Booth, an elderly resident of a small Maine town that neighbors the infamous Jerusalem's Lot, and it takes place a couple of years after the events in King's novel.
Fiction. By STEPHEN KING, JAMES HANNAH (PS Publishing; 2010) You Stephen King buffs may recall the story “One for the Road,” first published in Maine magazine in 1977, as one of the more memorable entries in King’s collection NIGHT SHIFT.
