Night Shift

Description

Stephen King has brought together nineteen of his most unsettling short pieces--bizarre tales of dark doing and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unearthly forms...where noises in the walls and shadows by the bed are always signs of something dreadful on the prowl. The settings are familiar and unsuspected--a high school, a factory, a truck stop, a laundry, a field of Nebraska corn. But in Stephen King's world any place can serve as devil's ground...if the time of night is propitious, and the forces of darkness are strong, and the victims are caught just slightly off their guard... ([source](https://stephenking.com/library/story_collection/night_shift_flap.html)) --- Contains: - [Jerusalem's Lot](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14916772W/Jerusalem's_Lot) - Graveyard Shift - Night Surf - I Am the Doorway - The Mangler - The Boogeyman - Grey Matter - Battleground - Trucks - Sometimes They Come Back - Strawberry Spring - The Ledge - The Lawnmower Man - [Quitters, Inc.](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149153W/Quitters_Inc) - I Know What You Need - [Children of the Corn](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19791056W/Children_of_the_Corn) - The Last Rung on the Ladder - The Man Who Loved Flowers - [One for the Road](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19791071W/One_for_the_Road) - The Woman in the Room --- Also contained in: - [The Shining / 'Salem's Lot / Night Shift / Carrie](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19558521W/The_Shining_'Salem's_Lot_Night_Shift_Carrie)

First Sentence

How good it was to step into the cold, draughty hall here at Chapelwaite, every bone in an ache from that abominable coach, in need of instant relief from my distended bladder-and to see a letter addressed in your own inimitable scrawl propped on the obscene little cherry-wood table beside the door!

Description

Presents a collection of twenty stories of horror and nightmarish fantasy that transform everyday situations into experiences of compelling terror in the worlds of the living, the dying, and the nonliving.

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Other Editions

• Night ShiftMass Market PaperbackAnchor Books2011-07-01
• Night ShiftHardcoverDoubleday1978-01-01
• Night ShiftNew American Library1979-01-01
• Danse macabreJ'ai lu1980-01-01
• A volte ritornanoHardcoverEuroclub1981-01-01
• Night ShiftNew English Library1986-01-01