Night Shift

1960 · Book · Stephen King

“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!”

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 ↗ (external link, opens in new tab)) Contains: • Jerusalem's Lot ↗ (external link, opens in new tab) • 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. ↗ (external link, opens in new tab) • I Know What You Need • Children of the Corn ↗ (external link, opens in new tab) • The Last Rung on the Ladder • The Man Who Loved Flowers • One for the Road ↗ (external link, opens in new tab) • The Woman in the Room Also contained in: • The Shining / 'Salem's Lot / Night Shift / Carrie ↗ (external link, opens in new tab) by Stephen King