Title: Night Shift
First published: February 1, 1979
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][1])


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Contains:

 - [Jerusalem's Lot][2]
 - 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.][3]
 - I Know What You Need
 - [Children of the Corn][4]
 - The Last Rung on the Ladder
 - The Man Who Loved Flowers
 - [One for the Road][5]
 - The Woman in the Room

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Also contained in:

 - [The Shining / 'Salem's Lot / Night Shift / Carrie][6]


  [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/story_collection/night_shift_flap.html
  [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14916772W/Jerusalem's_Lot
  [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL149153W/Quitters_Inc
  [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19791056W/Children_of_the_Corn
  [5]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19791071W/One_for_the_Road
  [6]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19558521W/The_Shining_'Salem's_Lot_Night_Shift_Carrie
Subjects: 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, Fiction, short stories (single author), Children's fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Horror stories, Fiction, general, Fiction, media tie-in, Good and evil
Places: Milford, Chapelwaite, Jerusalem's Lot, Preacher's Corners, Cumberland County, Maine, Falmouth, Vietnam, 3rd Avenue, New York City, Nebraska, California, Gaitlin, Grand Island, John F. Kennedy International Airport, New Jersey, rabbit room, Anson Beach, New Hampshire, Venus, Bangor, United States, Okefenokee Swamp, New England, New Sharon College
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Time periods: 1850, 1789, 1968, 1963