Children of the Corn and Maize God

Corn, Preacher and Maize

Stephen King

Children of the Corn

I read the short story a long, very long time ago. Short stories for Stephen King are a good genre when he wants to have density, a swift and rapid plot, simple characterization. His normal genre requires hundreds of pages, at times many hundred pages and one thousand is not an unreachable goal for him. This short story has…