Night Shift - by Stephen King (Paperback)

Originally published in 1978, Night Shift is the inspiration for over a dozen acclaimed horror movies and television series, including Children of the Corn, Chapelwaite, and Lawnmower Man.

Night Shift is Stephen King's first collection of short stories--a perfect showcase of just how far King's dark imagination can go. Here we see mutated rats gone bad ("Graveyard Shift"); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity ("Night Surf," the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower ("The Lawnmower Man"); unsettling children from the heartland ("Children of the Corn"); a smoker who will try anything to stop ("Quitters, Inc."); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome transformation ("Gray Matter"); and many more. This is Stephen King at his horrifying best.

Review Quotes

"[King] probably knows more about scary goings-on in confined, isolated places than anybody since Edgar Allan Poe." --Entertainment Weekly

"Eerie. . . . Ought to chill the cockles of many a heart." --Chicago Tribune

"The most wonderfully gruesome man on the planet." --USA Today

"An undisputed master of suspense and terror." --The Washington Post

"He's the author who can always make the improbable so scary you'll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door." --The Boston Globe

"A master. . . . [King] will catch you in his web and reach you at an elemental level where there is no defense." --Palm Beach Post

"Peerless imagination." --The Observer (London)

About the Author