Suffer the Little Children

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Suffer the Little Children is a Stephen King short story first published in Cavalier magazine in February 1972 and later collected in Nightmares & Dreamscapes. The story follows elderly schoolteacher Miss Sidley, who becomes convinced her students are being replaced by alien beings. Blending paranoia, psychological horror, and science fiction, it explores the terrifying uncertainty between genuine threat and delusion.

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Suffer the Little Children follows Miss Sidley, an aging schoolteacher unsettled when a student predicts that something terrible is about to happen. As she watches her pupils behave increasingly strangely, she becomes convinced they are being replaced by alien beings. Paranoia and fear escalate, leaving her—and the reader—questioning whether the threat is real or imagined.

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