"The Things They Left Behind" is a 30-page short story originally published in the Ed McBain-edited anthology Transgressons as well as in the audiobook Terror's Echo: Three Novellas from Transgressions on 21 April 2005, and in a paperback edition along with John Farris' "The Ransome Women" on 29 Augsut 2006, and was later included in King's own 2008 collection Just After Sunset.