![]() King submitted "The Killer" (as Steve King) to Forrest J Ackerman for the magazine Spacemen it was the first story he submitted for publication. King wrote "The Killer" as a young teenager it is a rewrite of his story "I've Got to Get Away!", which was self-published as part of the collection People, Places and Things in 1960. A watching man notes that "one of them turns killer every now and then", with another man musing that "they're making these robots too good", revealing that the protagonist was a malfunctioning robot. The story ends with the protagonist being loaded into a truck. As the protagonist attempts to flee, he is intercepted by men wielding " energy guns" he shoots one of them before being hit with "energy beams". After a man on an overhead catwalk flees from the protagonist, he shoots him the wounded man sounds an alarm. Seizing a gun, he demands that another worker tell him who he is after the worker ignores him, he clubs him with the gun. ![]() The protagonist of the story awakens in a munitions factory he is unable to remember his name or anything else. Written in the early 1960s, it was first published in issue #202 of Famous Monsters of Filmland in spring 1994. " The Killer" is a short story by Stephen King. ![]()
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