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Night Shift
- 383 pages · about 6 hours
- First published 1978
- 65 editions
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1 About this book
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...
- Horror
- Fantasy
- Mystery
- Vampires
- Myocardial infarction
- Vietnam War
- Suicide
- Cults
2 What to expect
Stephen King's first collection of short stories, nineteen of them, published in 1978. They are compact horror tales set in ordinary American places, a laundry, a factory, a cornfield, a truck stop, where something goes monstrously wrong. The stories are quick, pulpy and often gruesome, and several of them were later made into films.
Good for readers who want: classic horror short stories, early Stephen King, and a book to read a tale at a time.
3 About Stephen King
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Stephen King
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