An edition of Night Shift (1960)

Night Shift

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An edition of Night Shift (1960)

Night Shift

1st Signet printing (26)
  • 4.5 (24 ratings) ·
  • 449 Want to read
  • 20 Currently reading
  • 54 Have read

In places where fear dwells and blood runs cold, sinister forces and unspeakable things are running 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, this chilling collection of twenty short stories will plunge readers into the subterranean labyrinth of the most spine-tingling, eerie imagination of our time.
--back cover

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English

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Night Shift
1986?, New American Library
mass market paperback in English - 1st Signet printing (45)
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Night Shift
1986, New English Library
in English - reprint
Cover of: Night Shift
Night Shift
1982?, New American Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Signet printing (26)
Cover of: Night Shift
Night Shift
1981, New English Library/Times Mirror
in English
Cover of: Night Shift
Night Shift
1979, New American Library
in English
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 - 1978

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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 loves flowers --
One for the road --
The woman in the room.

Edition Notes

A Signet Book
US/CAN

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
1978

Contributors

Introduction
John D. MacDonald

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27901885M
ISBN 10
0451126564
ISBN 13
9780451126566
OCLC/WorldCat
1020452856
Goodreads
155756

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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