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Night Shift

  • Stephen King

4.46

24 ratings

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

Also contained in:

  • The Shining / 'Salem's Lot / Night Shift / Carrie

Genres

  • euthanasia
  • terminal illness
  • vampires
  • crucifixes
  • rosaries
  • devotional medals
  • Douay–Rheims Bible
  • myocardial infarction
  • Vietnam War
  • suicide
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About the author

  • Stephen King

    born 21 September 1947

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    4064 ratings · 585 works

Editions

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    1st Signet printing (45)

    New American Library

    1986?

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    1st Signet printing (50)

    New American Library

    1990?

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    2018

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    New English Library/Times Mirror

    1981

call girls
  • fiction
  • horror
  • cults
  • demonology
  • Horror fiction
  • Paranormal fiction
  • short story
  • King James Bible
  • corn fields
  • harvest moon
  • deities
  • background checks
  • elementary school
  • black magic
  • sports cars
  • voodoo
  • gambling
  • circumnavigation
  • heroin
  • first-person narratives
  • smoking cessation
  • cigarette habit
  • smoking
  • word of mouth
  • lung cancer
  • aversion training
  • drug withdrawl
  • mafia
  • mob enforcers
  • electroconvulsive therapy
  • serial killers
  • two-way radios
  • internal bleeding
  • Boy Scouts
  • Morse code
  • bulldozers
  • gas stations
  • truck stops
  • semi-trailers
  • truckers
  • jeeps
  • helicopters
  • Molotov cocktails
  • thermonuclear weapons
  • fantasy
  • contract killing
  • penthouse apartments
  • cats
  • fungus
  • exponential growth
  • worker's compensation
  • recluses
  • beer
  • convenience stores
  • snowstorms
  • pregnancy
  • diners
  • cervical fractures
  • closets
  • doors
  • corpses
  • paranoia
  • schizophrenia
  • crib death
  • convulsions
  • psychiatrists
  • mangles
  • demonic possession
  • demons
  • mutagens
  • immunization
  • pyres
  • viruses
  • Captain Trips
  • post-apocalyptic fiction
  • short stories
  • manservants
  • Puritans
  • Madonna and Child
  • inverted crosses
  • runes
  • De Vermis Mysteriis
  • occult
  • rail fence ciphers
  • bastards
  • inbreeding
  • witchcraft
  • eastern whip-poor-wills
  • nosferatu
  • undead
  • American Horror tales
  • American Short stories
  • Paranormal phenomena
  • Mystery
  • Horrow tales
  • English Short stories
  • Fiction, horror
  • Fiction, short stories (single author)
  • Children's fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • Horror stories
  • Fiction, general
  • Fiction, media tie-in
  • Good and evil
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    Penguin Publishing Group

    1979

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    Overlook Connection Press

    Apr 03, 2018

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    Signet

    Feb 13, 1979

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    New American Library

    1979

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    Bastei-Lübbe

    1991

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    reprint

    New English Library

    1986

  • Edition cover

    1978

    New American Library

    1979-02

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    New American Library

    1979

  • Edition cover

    Apr 09, 2009

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    Demco Media

    Dec 18, 1994

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    J'ai lu

    1980

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    J'ai lu

    2002-04-4

  • Edition cover

    13. Auflage

    Bastei Lübbe

    1994-04

  • Edition cover

    1st Signet printing (14)

    New American Library

    1979-02

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    Hodder & Stoughton, imusti

    Jan 01, 2012

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    Hodder & Stoughton General Division

    September 30, 1991

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    Book Club edition

    Doubleday & Company

    1978

  • Edition cover

    1st Signet printing (26)

    New American Library

    1982?

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    act

    1999

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    2nd edition with this cover

    Debolsillo

    2012

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    Orbis-Fabbri, Orbis.

    1994

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    Turtleback Books

    2011

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    Signet

    Feb 01, 1979

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    Hodder Paperback

    Aug 30, 2008

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    Bompiani

  • Edition cover

    Erste Auflage

    Bastei-Lübbe, Lübbe

    1988-09

  • Edition cover

    1st Signet printing

    New American Library

    1981

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    Signet

    Feb 01, 1979

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    Lübbe

    January 1, 2002

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    Luebbe Verlagsgruppe

    January 1, 1996

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    Plaza y Janés

    September 4, 2001

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    1st Anchor books mass-market ed. (1)

    Anchor Books

    2011-07

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    Hodder & Stoughton

    2008

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    Hodder & Stoughton

    2012

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    Huang Guan

    2014-05-05

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    Penguin Publishing Group

    1960

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    New American Library of Canada Limited New York

    1979-01-01

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    Chivers North America

    January 1995

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    First Anchor Books edition.

    Anchor Books

    2012

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    Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media

    September 2001

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    Signet

    February 1, 1979

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    AST

    2001

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    AST

    2005

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    Signet

    Feb 01, 1979