[.uk] Night Shift (Signet) (ISBN 0451170113)

short story surprise:
I find this work more revealing of King's style and techniques that he takes full advantage of in his more major works. This is a good example of what makes a short story its own creature no less significant compared to novels and epics.

One of the most horrible books I ever had the displeasure of reading.:
I am a Stephen King fan. In fact, my most favorite book to date is his masterpiece, The Stand. But the stories in this book are just pointless, uninteresting, uninspiring and downright awful. I am simply dumbfounded at how this became a #1 best seller, or why it has such great reviews on this website. Rarely have been so utterly disappointed in a book.

Not Free SF Reader:
Stephen King's first collection, and very good it was too. Mostly horror as you would expect, but some SF horror, a twisted little crime story, and a call it would you like death by disease story to finish. Demons, Elder Gods, voodoo, punishment, armageddon, bloody murder and more exist for you to find in these pages. Night Shift : Jerusalem's Lot - Stephen King Night Shift : Graveyard Shift - Stephen King Night Shift : Night Surf - Stephen King Night Shift : I am the Doorway - Stephen King Night Shift : The Mangler - Stephen King Night Shift : The Boogeyman - Stephen King Night Shift : Gray Matter - Stephen King Night Shift : Battleground - Stephen King Night Shift : Trucks - Stephen King Night Shift : Sometimes They Come Back - Stephen King Night Shift : Strawberry Spring - Stephen King Night Shift : The Ledge - Stephen King Night Shift : The Lawnmower Man - Stephen King Night Shift : Quitters Inc - Stephen King Night Shift : I Know What You Need - Stephen King Night Shift : Children of the Corn - Stephen King Night Shift : The Last Rung on the Ladder - Stephen King Night Shift : The Man Who Loved Flowers - Stephen King Night Shift : One for the Road - Stephen King Night Shift : The Woman in the room - Stephen King May as well be hung for Yogshoggoth as a lamb. 3.5 out of 5 Rats in the tunnels. 4 out of 5 Just the flu got us in the end. 3 out of 5 Venus traveller, bad. 3.5 out of 5 Demons not ironed out. 4.5 out of 5 Closeted, badly. 3.5 out of 5 Bad beer. 4 out of 5 Green plastic army men are well armed these days. 4.5 out of 5 Pump slaves. 4 out of 5 Braindead, a lot of these students. 4 out of 5 Hey, I think I know this slasher. 3.5 out of 5 Walking around the welshers. 4.5 out of 5 Cat mower massacre prompts new gardening hire who has vegetarian and other disturbing habits. 3.5 out of 5 Aversion family therapy. 4.5 out of 5 Boyfriends with Necronomicons, just say no. 4 out of 5 Crucifixion row monster. 3.5 out of 5 Swan dive too late. 3.5 out of 5 Bloody hammers not a Norma-tive bouquet. 3.5 out of 5 What sort of people go to 'Salem's Lot? Not smart ones, that is for sure. 4 out of 5 Mum overdose improvement. 3 out of 5 4.5 out of 5

Great book but is missing some stories from the original:
I compared this new edition to the former one and it is missing some of the original stories. It also had a poor publisher as the page are fragile and the inking cheap. Nonetheless, King's work here shows you the starting ideas for larger projects like The Stand, Carrie, Christine and others. Wish I could find more of the original copies that included The Laundromat and other stories.

From horror to rather boring:
Stephen King's earliest short story collection. The stories range from very good (five stars) to not very thrilling or shocking at all (one star). In my opinion, the stories well worth reading are Children of the Corn (a couple stumbles into a town run by fanatical kids), Quitters, Inc. (a new twist on how to quit smoking) and Trucks (trucks take over the world). The stories that can hardly be described as horror are The Woman in the Room (assisted suicide) and The Last Rung on the Ladder (sibling dependency). The remaining stories fall somewhere in the middle. I definitely prefer Stephen King's longer novels over his short stories because the characters can be developed with much more detail and as the reader, I have more time to submerge myself into the horror he creates.