Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. When King was three years old, his father, Donald Edwin King, deserted his family under the lie of "going to buy a pack of cigarettes". His mother, Nellie Ruth Pillsbury, raised King and his adopted older brother David by herself, sometimes under great financial strain. The family moved to Ruth's home town of Durham, Maine but also spent brief periods in Fort Wayne, Indiana and Stratford, Connecticut. Children of the Corn is a short story, first published in the March 1977 issue of Penthouse, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. Burt and Vicky are an estranged couple who are making one last effort to save their marriage by making a cross country trip to visit Vicky's brother. Burt decided to leave the highway a few hours before in order to find some interesting scenery, but now they find themselves staring at nothing but cornfields. As they argue about when to stop for lunch, they run a child down in the street. Burt gets out in order to investigate and discovers that the boy's throat is cut. Burt loads the boy up in the trunk of the car, takes a suitcase he found in the cornfield, and drives into the nearest town. Burt wants to find the sheriff's office to report the boy's death. However, when they arrive in town they find it completely deserted even… Enjoy free online English audiobook “Children of the Corn”, a breathtaking short story by Stephen King.