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An edition of Night Shift (1978)

Night Shift

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A collection of horror stories that includes CHILDREN OF THE CORN, NIGHT SHIFT is a shudderingly detailed map of the dark places that lie behind our waking, rational world.

These are tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the creeping, peopled shadows of night. As you read, the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck, reach round from behind to clutch and lock themselves, white-knuckled, around the throat.

This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered; a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where the familiar and friendly lure and deceive. A world where madness and blind panic become the only reality.

Stephen King's screenplay for Cat's Eye is based on — The Ledge and Quitters, Inc. — both in this collection.
--back cover

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Language
English
Pages
409

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Cover of: Night Shift
Night Shift
2011-07, Anchor Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Anchor books mass-market ed. (1)
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Danse macabre
2002-04-4, J'ai lu
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Ночная смена
1999, act
Hardcover in Russian
Cover of: Nachtschicht
Nachtschicht: "Short Shocker" von Amerikas aufregendstem Autor
1994-04, Bastei Lübbe
Taschenbuch in German - 13. Auflage
Cover of: Night Shift
Night Shift
1990?, New American Library, Signet
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Signet printing (50)
Cover of: Nachtschicht
Nachtschicht
1988-09, Bastei-Lübbe, Lübbe
Paperback in German - Erste Auflage
Cover of: Night Shift
Night Shift
1986, New English Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - Reprint
Cover of: Night Shift
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 (1)
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
1978, Doubleday & Company
Hardcover in English - Book Club edition

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Published in

London

Edition Notes

This collection originally published, Garden City, N.Y. , Doubleday London , NewEnglish Library, 1978.

Copyright Date
1978

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/1

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
409p. ;
Number of pages
409

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22602144M
Internet Archive
nightshift0000king
ISBN 10
0450042685
ISBN 13
9780450042683
Library Thing
32399
Goodreads
56069267

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.

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