Springheel Jack in "Strawberry Spring" considered to be an unreliable narrator?

New Sharon College is in a fog due to a 'strawberry spring' (false spring) -- much like the narrator and killer himself. Stephen King's "Strawberry Spring" is a short story detailing the escapades of a serial killer of college students during a period of strawberry spring New Sharon College. Over the course of the narrative, several college students die and when another strawberry spring occurs several years later, again the murders begin to transpire. The narrator end his tale on a chilling note: "My wife is upset. She wants to know where I was last night. I can't tell her because I don't remember. I remember starting home from work, and I remember putting my headlights on to search my way through the lovely creeping fog, but that's all I remember." The narrator, over the course of the story,...
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