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Night Shift

Never trust your heart to the New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Stephen King. Especially with an anthology that features the classic stories "Children of the Corn," "The Lawnmower Man," "Graveyard Shift," "The Mangler," and "Sometimes They Come Back"-which were all made into hit horror films.

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"Unbearable suspense." (Dallas Morning News)

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.

Contents:

* Introduction * John D. MacDonald * in

* Foreword * fw

* Jerusalem's Lot * nv Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978

* Graveyard Shift * ss Cavalier Oct '70

* Night Surf * ss Cavalier Aug '74

* I Am the Doorway * ss Cavalier Mar '71

* The Mangler * nv Cavalier Dec '72

* The Boogeyman * ss Cavalier Mar '73

* Gray Matter * ss Cavalier Oct '73

* Battleground * ss Cavalier Sep '72

* Trucks * ss Cavalier Jun '73

* Sometimes They Come Back * nv Cavalier Mar '74

* Strawberry Spring * ss Ubris Fll '68; Cavalier Nov '75

* The Ledge * ss Penthouse Jul '76

* The Lawnmower Man * ss Cavalier May '75

* Quitters, Inc. * ss Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978

* I Know What You Need * nv Cosmopolitan Sep '76

* Children of the Corn * nv Penthouse Mar '77

* The Last Rung on the Ladder * ss Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978

* The Man Who Loved Flowers * ss Gallery Aug '77

* One for the Road * ss Maine Mar '77

* The Woman in the Room * ss Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978

Audience
adult
Length
long · 409 pages

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