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Summary: This will keep you up at night...
Review: Of all Stephen King's books, Night Shift is by far the best. A collection of easily digestible short stories, each is deliciously twisted enough to make you squirm out of your late night coziness. The stories frequently take everyday events, frustrations, and predicaments, and transform them into shocking metamorpheses of our deepest fears and dreads.
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Summary: The Night Shift
Review: This book is amazing. Every story is so well written. The boogyman and Quitters inc. are the best two stories in the book. The detail and well thought plots are great. This book is easily one of Steven KIngs best.
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Summary: King's classic short story collection is still the best
Review: Night shift is a classic collection of horror tales. There's something for everyone here, as the stories range from chilling ("Sometimes They Come Back," "I Am the Doorway") to gory ("The Mangler," "Gray Matter") to a mix of laughter and horror ("The Lawnmower Man," "Battleground"). My favorites are the longer stories in which King takes the time to develop the characters, making their usually tragic endings all the more horrible. For example, "Strawberry Spring" is the story of terrible, seemingly random killings that plague a college campus as told from the perspective of a young male who is watching the events unfold around him with increasing horror, and in "I Know What You Need," King focuses on the destructive nature of obsessive love. Stories such as "Quitters Inc." and "The Ledge" are gripping--albeit unrealistic--page-turners. All-in-all, you're sure to find a favorite amongst these stories from master storyteller King.
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Summary: Night Shift: Classic
Review: The greatest of Stephen King's short stories. I could not put it down! My favorite story is, "One For The Road", a continuation of 'Salem's Lot. A car has run into a snowdrift and is stuck. The husband walks for miles to get help for his trapped wife and daughter. I don't want to give the ending away, but are the women and child still in the car? Find out and read. Warning, never bend over and kiss a girl in Salem's Lot!
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Summary: Excellent, Entertaining, Early Stephen King
Review: An early collection of Stephen King short stories, Night Shift was a whole lotta fun to read. The collection really started to pick up steam about half way along. Most of the stories after "Trucks" were little gems, man. I think my two favorite were "Children of the Corn" and "Strawberry Spring.""Strawberry Spring" was a first-person story told by a serial killer. As the story unwinds we find that the narrator might have had more to do with a series of brutal murders at his college than he at first leads us to believe. "Children of the Corn" was about a violently dysfunctinal couple who find themselves in the middle of a Twilight Zone-esque town in Nebraska. Edward Albee meets Rod Serling here. "The Ledge" was a thrilling story about a cuckholding tennis pro forced to circle a five-inch ledge on a high building. "The Last Rung on the Ladder" was a poignant story about a young brother and sister who have a near fatal accident jumping from a barn railing to a giant pile of hay. Only, years later we find the young girl all grown up and jumping to her suicide death from a Los Angeles highrise. King combines action and emotion very well here. "The Man Who Loved Flowers" is a twisted O'Henry-esque story where we find a thoughtful sweet, young man is actually a homicidal maniac. Vintage King. Similarly, "I Know What You Need" is the story of a dark but charming guy who lures in an emotional young woman. But the young woman finds to her horror that he's anything but a nice and sweet guy. "The Woman in the Room" one word -- devastating. King was clearly was drawing on his own mother's death and his problems with alcohol here. Bad Ass fiction that will leave you wiping the tears way. 'Nuff said. "Quitters, Inc." was a funny little story about the pains some people go through to quit smoking. King carries the "treatment" over-the-top, and this was a lotta fun to read. And "Graveyard Shift" -- this was the first one that really got King going. It's about a group of guys who work at an industrial laundry that is in ill repair. Giant rats, and dive-bombing bats await you in the basement. Great story. All in all, Night Shift is one of the best short story collections I've ever read. Some of these stories are already classics, and you just know a few of these will end up in our grandkid's English textbooks one day. I highly recommend Night Shift to darn near anyone who enjoys good fiction. And check out the late great John D. MacDonald's intro. Good stuff. Good stuff. Highly recommended. And, of course, I write these reviews because I want to know I'm helpful to you, so click on that "helpful" button to let me know you care! Yours,
Stacey
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Summary: Read it while working the night shift, it's scarier that way
Review: Twenty stories are contained within this gem of a collection. To be honest not all these stories are great but there are enough that are to make it a worthwhile purchase. Trucks is the one I've remembered after all these years. Imagine if all the vehicles out there didn't just come alive but wanted to kill you and everyone else. You may have seen an average movie called Maximum Overdrive with Emilio Estevez which was based on this story but don't be put off. The story in the book is a lot better and you're imagination is better than any movie.
Ever wanted to quit smoking? Then Quitters Inc. is for you, it's a great one. If you're really into beer then Gray Matter is for you. Children of the Corn is another classic that way surpasses the average movie made from it. You've got aliens controlling a guy in I am the Doorway. Lawnmower man is pretty good to which the movie made from has nothing to do with this brilliant story. A few movies have also knocked of Battleground which is about toy soldiers coming to life but no one can beat the original King version and your imagination.
If you're a King fan or a fan of short horror stories then this book is a must buy. It's actually a shame some of these stories weren't made into full length novels because there's some good ideas here.
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Summary: night king
Review: although SK later on would have mor inventive stories, and more artistically written ones, this is his most entertaining collection. it is still very inventive, the stories have very much charm, and are carreied out in a suspenceful manner. there is some drama, matheson-inspired and pulp-inspired stories, but mostly it is plain good SK-horror read, as his style was at the time. good ideas with charm carried out in a suspenceful manner should tell you all. well written. you can't really expect more from a collection. i wouldn't really claim this collection had any highlights. it continues to deliver. some may be a bit worse, and two are not that good, but all in all i wouldn't claim this is a collection where some stories are way better than others.
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Summary: Classic King
Review: This short story collection is King at his best- imaginative, good storytelling, exciting, and sometimes pretty scary. I'm trying to decide whether I think this collection is better than "Skeleton Crew", and I think it is. King is a master of the unexpected. He's also a master of dreaming up stories for which, after you read them, you might say, "Why didn't I think of that?" In other words, he's able to come up with ideas that are so basic to who we are as people that you can't help but identify with them. Avery Z. Conner, author of "Fevers of the Mind".
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Summary: Some good stories...
Review: What I like most about Stephen King's books is not their plot, but the way it is retaled and the way characters in story are developed. Maybe that's the reason I found some of the short stories in Night Shift not very good (and some even bad). No one could develop a full character on some 20 pages or at least King hasn't succeeded in Night Shift. A remarkable exception to me is "The Last Rung On The Ladder" - very good story about a little cute girl with tragic and touching ending. Definately my favourite among these stories. There are some stories that possess King's writing style at his best - "Graveyard Shift" (ominous feelings provoked by industrial factory environment that end with action-like denouement), "The Ledge" (here we have two characters waging struggle against each other on psychological level that ends on physical level), "Quitters, Inc." (when you have problems with some temptation just remember this story), "The Man Who Loved Flowers" (what a story about a man giving flowers to a lady, poor lady...). There are other good stories as well. When I read "Trucks" I really looked at the vehicles as they have individuality and intellect, although the story itself is nothing exceptional. "Battleground" is for me a story that even King couldn't make something catchy out of its plot. I was very curious about "One For The Road" because I knew it would deal with Salem's Lot. Well, I wasn't impressed. As a conclusion I would say that every story in Night Shift possesses something that makes it worth reading but I personally seem to like King's novels more.
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Summary: Wonderful short stories
Review: This book would have been worth it if the only good story was "The Last Rung On The Ladder." As it is you get that wonderful story, with no touch of the supernatural and bunch of other good reads. "Graveyard Shift" and "Children of the Corn" fare far better as short story than as movie. "Gray Matter" resonates with that creepy, organically horrific vibe that King has at his best. "Quitters, Inc." and "I Know What You Need" both provide a nice dose of psychological horror, and then there's "I Am The Doorway," a Lovecraftian, invasion-from-space story that, while unsurprising, is very well-crafted. This is probably my favourite Stephen King book. With 20 stories, at one story before bed every week night, this is a solid month of good writing.
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