Night Shift

1978 | Fiction & Poetry | Horror | Science Fiction/Fantasy

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...

Contents:

· Introduction · John D. MacDonald · in
· Foreword · fw
· Jerusalem’s Lot · nv Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978
· Graveyard Shift · ss Cavalier Oct ’70
· Night Surf · ss Cavalier Aug ’74
· I Am the Doorway · ss Cavalier Mar ’71
· The Mangler · nv Cavalier Dec ’72
· The Boogeyman · ss Cavalier Mar ’73
· Gray Matter · ss Cavalier Oct ’73
· Battleground · ss Cavalier Sep ’72
· Trucks · ss Cavalier Jun ’73
· Sometimes They Come Back · nv Cavalier Mar ’74
· Strawberry Spring · ss Ubris Fll ’68; Cavalier Nov ’75
· The Ledge · ss Penthouse Jul ’76
· The Lawnmower Man · ss Cavalier May ’75
· Quitters, Inc. · ss Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978
· I Know What You Need · nv Cosmopolitan Sep ’76
· Children of the Corn · nv Penthouse Mar ’77
· The Last Rung on the Ladder · ss Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978
· The Man Who Loved Flowers · ss Gallery Aug ’77
· One for the Road · ss Maine Mar ’77
· The Woman in the Room · ss Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978

Stephen King (Author)