Night Shift
by Stephen King
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Author: Stephen KingEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-10-01
ISBN: 0385129912
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Doubleday
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Book Review: 20 Scary Stories- King's best collection!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been on a short story/anthology bender as of late. I just can't seem to get enough of short, quick paced stories. I guess it should come as no surprise that I would return to Stephen King for a 3rd trip into this literary art form.
"Night Shift" may be King's first collection of stories, and only my 3rd such kind of collection, but there is no doubt that this is by far his best (at least of what I have read). Unlike some of his newer stuff that tries to be cross-genre, mixing horror with drama, romance, etc, all of the 20 stories (with the exception of "The Woman in the Room") are, as the front page says "excursions into horror."
And really, they all are fantastic. You have "Jerusalem's Lot", "Trucks", "Children of the Corn", "The Lawnmower Man", "Sometimes They Come Back", and many other forms of literary horror within this short, but entirely entertaining book. Aside from the aforementioned "Woman" story and "The Man who Loved Flowers" there isn't a bad story in this book. And even those 2 aren't even that bad of stories, they just don't match up with the calibre of the greatness King is known for.
The only problem with this book? That it sat collecting dust on my shelf for so long!
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