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This new book of stories from the author of Carrie, The Shining, and 'Salem's Lot is a chilling collection of strange imaginings, ghoulish twists, and diabolical terror.
Stephen King, a modern master of the macabre, has brought together nineteen of his most unsettling short pieces—bizarre tales of dark doings 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 and 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 guard.
In the ominous, frightening world of Stephen King there are things unimagined, almost unspeakable, working the Night Shift:
• Strange presences in Jerusalem's Lot, a town abandoned for generations—and with good reason. No one who wanders there now, after the sun has set, ever comes back alive...
• And the hideous growths on the hands of a former astronaut—tiny round and yellow eyes popping through the skin, watching him, not liking what they see...
• And the mysterious little girl lost in a fierce Maine blizzard, calling out to her rescuers in a pitiful voice. But she walks on top of the deep, drifting snow—and she leaves no tracks...
• And the grim-faced children in a Midwest town where no one seems to live past the age of nineteen...
• And the vermin in the second sub-celler of the old mill—abandoned to darkness for a hundred years and now assuming shapes and sizes nature never intended them to take...
• And the giant folding and steam pressing machine in the Blue Ribbon Laundry—an impressive and reliable piece of equipment, until it got its first taste of human blood...
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euthanasia, terminal illness, vampires, crucifixes, rosaries, devotional medals, Douay–Rheims Bible, myocardial infarction, Vietnam War, suicide, 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, Large type books, Fiction, short stories (single author), Children's fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Horror stories, Fiction, general, Fiction, media tie-inPeople
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El umbral de la noche
2012, Debolsillo
Paperback
in Spanish
- 2nd edition with this cover
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Night Shift
2011-07, Anchor Books
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Night Shift (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
Jul 26, 2011, Turtleback Books
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Night Shift
2008, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Umbral de La Noche (Night Shift)
September 2001, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
Unknown Binding
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El umbral de la noche
September 4, 2001, Plaza y Janés
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in Spanish
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Night Shift
October 1999, Tandem Library
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in English
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Nachtschicht. 3 Cassetten. Meistererzählungen.
January 1, 1996, Luebbe Verlagsgruppe
Audio cassette
in German
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Night Shift (Silhouette Sensation)
January 1995, Chivers North America
in English
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Nachtschicht: "Short Shocker" von Amerikas aufregendstem Autor
1994-04, Bastei Lübbe
Taschenbuch
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Nightshift Stephen King
September 30, 1991, Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Hardcover
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Night Shift
1990?, New American Library, Signet
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Nachtschicht
1988-09, Bastei-Lübbe, Lübbe
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Night Shift
1986, New English Library
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Night Shift
1986?, New American Library
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Night Shift
1982?, New American Library, Signet
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Night Shift
1979-02, New American Library
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1979-02, New American Library
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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:
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Jerusalem's Lot
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Graveyard Shift
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Night Surf
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I Am the Doorway
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The Mangler
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The Boogeyman
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Grey Matter
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Battleground
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Trucks
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Sometimes They Come Back
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Strawberry Spring
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The Ledge
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The Lawnmower Man
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Quitters, Inc.
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I Know What You Need
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Children of the Corn
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The Last Rung on the Ladder
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The Man Who Loved Flowers
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One for the Road
- The Woman in the Room
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Excerpts
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!
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- StephenKing.com - Night Shift
- Night Shift (short story collection) - Wikipedia
- Night Shift | Stephen King Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
- The Great Stephen King Reread: Night Shift | Tor.com
- Rereading Stephen King: week five – Night Shift | Books | The Guardian
- Struggling with Night Shift : stephenking - Reddit
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