graveyard shift and other stories from night shift

'The Ledge': A crime boss blackmails a man into circumnavigating a 5-inch ledge surrounding a multistory building.'Strawberry Spring': A story about a serial killer with a Twist Ending.Made into an instantly-forgotten movie followed by two sequels. Many years later, they appear in his class, still as teenagers. ' Sometimes They Come Back': A teacher's brother was killed by teenage greasers when they were kids.Basis of the film Maximum Overdrive, later filmed again under the original title. ' Trucks': Trucks and other big machines revolt against humanity.Later adapted into a segment of the TNT miniseries Stephen King's Nightmares & Dreamscapes. 'Battleground': A professional hitman is attacked by living toy soldiers.Adapted in the first episode of Creepshow. 'Gray Matter': A man turns into a Blob Monster after drinking a can of contaminated beer.Adapted into the 2023 film of the same name. 'The Boogeyman': A man tells how his children were killed one by one by the eponymous monster.' The Mangler': A folding/pressing machine in an industrial laundromat is possessed by a demon.

'I Am the Doorway': Former astronaut discovers that an alien lifeform inhabits his body.'Night Surf': Post-apocalyptic story, where nearly all humans have died in an influenza pandemic.'Graveyard Shift': Workers cleaning up the basement of an old textile mill meet giant rats.Basis for the Epix TV series Chapelwaite. ' Jerusalem's Lot': Scrapbook Story set in 1850.Not to be confused with the 1982 comedy film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton, or with the 1990 LucasArts videogame. It contains several 'excursions into horror' which had earlier appeared in magazines, along with some previously unpublished ones. Night Shift is Stephen King's first collection of short stories, originally published in 1978.

Graveyard shift and other stories from night shift