An edition of Night Shift (1978)

Night Shift

1st Signet printing
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An edition of Night Shift (1978)

Night Shift

1st Signet printing
  • 4.46 ·
  • 24 Ratings
  • 395 Want to read
  • 20 Currently reading
  • 52 Have read

In places where fear dwells and blood runs cold, sinister forces and unspeakable things are working the NIGHT SHIFT
From the depths of darkness where hideous rats defend their empire, to dizzying heights where a beautiful girl hangs by a hair above a hellish fate, NIGHT SHIFT will plunge you into the subterranean labyrinth of the most spine-tingling, eerie imaginations of our time.
--back cover

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English

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1994-04, Bastei Lübbe
Taschenbuch in German - 13. Auflage
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Night Shift
1990?, New American Library, Signet
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Signet printing (50)
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Nachtschicht
1988-09, Bastei-Lübbe, Lübbe
Paperback in German - Erste Auflage
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Night Shift
1982?, New American Library, Signet
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Signet printing (26)
Cover of: Night Shift
Night Shift
1979-02, New American Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Signet printing (14)
Cover of: Night Shift
Night Shift
1979-02, New American Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Signet printing (1)
Cover of: Night Shift
Night Shift
1978, Doubleday & Company
Hardcover in English - Book Club edition

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New York, USA

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!"

Table of Contents

Jerusalem's lot --
Graveyard shift --
Night surf --
I am the doorway --
The mangler --
The boogeyman --
Gray matter --
Battleground --
Trucks --
Sometimes they come back --
Strawberry spring --
The ledge --
The lawnmower man --
Quitters, Inc. --
I know what you need --
Children of the corn --
The last rung on the ladder --
The man who loved flowers --
One for the road --
The woman in the room.

Edition Notes

Signet AE7011
US/CAN

Copyright Date
1978

Contributors

Introduction
John D. MacDonald

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
xxii, 326p.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7573126M
ISBN 10
0451170113
ISBN 13
9780451170118
OCLC/WorldCat
423782785
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0451170113
Library Thing
32399

Work 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)



Contains:

  • 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.
  • I Know What You Need
  • Children of the Corn
  • The Last Rung on the Ladder
  • The Man Who Loved Flowers
  • One for the Road
  • The Woman in the Room



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Dear Bones,
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!
added by Lisa. "first sentence"

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