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Night Shift: Selections

Written by: Stephen King
Narrated by: John Glover
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A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the shadows of the night. As you listen, the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck, reach round from behind to clutch and lock themselves, white-knuckled, around the throat.

This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered; a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where the familiar and the friendly lure and deceive. A world where madness and blind panic become the only reality.

Includes the stories "Jerusalem's Lot", "Graveyard Shift", "Night Surf", "I Am The Doorway", "The Mangler", "The Boogeyman", "Gray Matter", "Battleground", "Sometimes They Come Back", "Strawberry Spring", "The Ledge", "The Lawnmower Man", "Quitters, Inc.", "I Know What You Need", "The Last Rung on the Ladder", "The Man Who Loved Flowers", "One For The Road" and "The Woman in the Room".

©1976 Stephen King (P)1976 Random House Audio, A Division of Random House Inc. Fantasy
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This is one of the best short story collections I've read — and horror just happens to be the delivery vehicle. King ranges across supernatural dread, creeping suspense, and quiet human devastation, and he handles all of it without breaking a sweat. What he does particularly well is write everyday people, including the deeply unsympathetic ones. He doesn't make you like them. He makes you unable to stop reading about them.

The standouts are hard to miss. Jerusalem's Lot, Graveyard Shift, Sometimes They Come Back, Quitters Inc., and I Know What You Need are all five-star stories. The Last Rung on the Ladder is the one that hits hardest — no monsters, no twist, just slow emotional devastation with no escape hatch. A few stories don't land (The Ledge, Night Surf, The Woman in the Room), but the lows here are still readable. The highs carry everything.

The narrator excels at elevating the dread and horror — the pacing, the tone shifts, the way tension builds across each story all feel deliberate and well-executed. The sound effects woven into the audio add genuine atmosphere, not gimmick. Honestly, this is one of those rare cases where the audiobook is better than reading the text on the page.

4.75 stars. If you're even slightly curious about King's short fiction, start here.

King's Short Horror at Its Most Unputdownable

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