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"The Moving Finger" is a short story written by Stephen King. It was first published in the December 1990 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and later included in King's own 1993 collection Nightmares and Dreamscapes.

Summary[]

Howard Mitla, an ordinary man who has a strange aptitude for Jeopardy!, is confronted by the bizarre sight of a human finger poking its way out of the drain in his apartment's bathroom sink.

Audiobook[]

The audiobook version of this story, in the Nightmares and Dreamscapes collection, is read by Eve Beglarian.

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