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Summary: Fairly good!
Review: The book itself is a collection of stories by Stephen King that are so detailed it makes you feel that you are actually there! A few duds that leave you hanging, but they are worth buying anyway!
Rating: 
Summary: Entertaining and Frightening
Review: As an avid King fan, I always disagree with those who label King solely as a horror writer, stating that his best works are often not grotesque. However, if you are looking for spine tingling horror and macabre, Night Shift provides adequately. A series of short stories, each disturbing but captivating. Those who have read 'Salem's Lot will enjoy "Jerusalem's Lot" and "One for the Road" which are tied to that despised town of vampires. "Quitters Inc." is especially frightening, with its Twilight Zone feel. "The Boogeyman" is another great tale which will frighten anyone who feared their closet door when they were little. There is just too many quality stories in this collection to name them all. A great read. Do not be scared by the short story format, the stories are fast paced and envigirating.
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Summary: Most were good, a few were disappointing.
Review: Stephen King is one of my favorite authors. This is only the second book of short stories that I've read by him. The other is NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES. This one was much better. In King's novels, he takes a long time to set up the story and build the characters. In his short stories, he doesn't have that luxury, but he still manages to do both beautifully. The characters are vivid and the stories progress smoothly, just pulling you in. My favorites were JERUSALEM'S LOT, TRUCKS, CHILDREN OF THE CORN, and ONE FOR THE ROAD. Then there was QUITTERS, INC. which was quite Hitchcockian...totally unexpected stuff. Even the ones that I didn't care for too much were well done. This is a must read for any King fan and I also recommend it to anybody looking for a good scare.
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Summary: Classical King
Review: Stephen King once again writes another classic horror collection. Night Shift is a an anthology of short stories of about 5 to 40 pages long. I was a bit dissapointed because I enjoyed the poems in Skeleton Crew, another of his collections. Night Shift didn't have any poems, but still great terrifing stories.The first story, Jerusalems Lot, is kinda weird at first, it is in the form of only written letters, the kind in the mail, to and from the main characters. It is a version of the longer story, 'Salem's Lot. A couple after that you get to the Mangler, I though that one was good, and quite gory. It is about a laudry ironer and folder, that is cursed. The Boogyman is definately a must read, and maybe the scariest one in the collection. It will become a horror classic for sure. The lawnmower man is a chilling one that will get you thinking a lot, or at least it did for me. This one is about a man who needs to hire a someone to cut his lawn, and gets what he asked for, and a bit more. I liked the ones I told you about the best, but they are all good, and will give you sleepless nights. It is definately a true King book, not one of his weird ones. The Ledge, Graveyard Shift, Trucks, Sometimes They Come Back, and I Know What You Need were also very good.
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Summary: Very Good
Review: There were many good stories in this book. The Ledge, Quitters Inc., and Jerusalems' Lot were the best. Stephen King is great at writing, and he always will be. Also recommended is The Stand and The Talisman
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Summary: great stories!
Review: Almost every short story in this book is good. I didn't like Lawnmower Man, though. It is absolutely nothing like the movie. I think that the best stories are Jerusalems lot and The Ledge. Overall, this is a great short story collection
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Summary: One of the books that makes King a master of horror
Review: I don't like all of King's books, and at times my admiration for his writing has been more grudging than whole-hearted, but in collections like this one you can really see the skill and style that set him head and shoulders above most writers in the horror genre. I first read Night Shift when I was 13 years old, and for years could remember clearly the pure terror of "The Mangler" and "The Boogeyman" and how I felt like I was too old to be afraid of the closet, but still couldn't resist shining inside with my Daddy's flashlight. Reading it again after all this time was an interesting experience and I felt a lot of respect for stories that hadn't stuck in my mind the first time like "Sometimes They Come Back", "I Know What You Need", and "The Last Rung on the Ladder". In his foreward, King says that he's not a writer as much as a man with a marketable obsession. And while his career does not always intersect with my tastes, I must respectfully disagree on this point.
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Summary: Children Of The Corn- Review
Review: Children Of The Corn is so far the only story I've read from this book. Let me just say that I have no idea how they could make a whole movie and sequels to it. I wouldn't go see the movies because their is no way that it could be any good without tons of filler. Anyway, Children Of The Corn is not a real long story, but it's really good and quite creepy when you get down to it. It's smart and original.
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Summary: King's best book
Review: I've read over two dozen of Stephen King's books, and this one is his best. King's short story writing is what allows him to be mentioned in the same sentence with the likes of Poe as one of the best horror writers ever. There are so many King classics in "Night Shift" it is scary. "Graveyard Shift," "The Mangler," "Children of the Corn," "Trucks," "Gray Matter," "Quitters Inc.," the list goes on and on. Many of these were made into inferior movies, but the stories themselves are are among the scariest things he's written because they reduce fear to its most basic elements. This is one King book that qualifies as a "must" read.
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Summary: A few scares can be found among these excellent stories
Review: Though not a work of genius like "Skeleton Crew", "Night Shift" is still a great and spooky collection of stories with only a few clunkers. The author's preface proves King's true genius, offering a perfect summary of fear and its effects on all of our lives. From there, there's something for everyone among the stories in the book: from gothic horror ("Jerusalem's Lot") to dark humor (maybe I'm the only one who saw something funny about the ending of "The Boogeyman", but I think it was meant to be blackly comic) to poignant drama ("The Last Rung on the Ladder", "The Woman in the Room") to fast-paced suspense ("The Ledge", "Quitters Inc.") to good old-fashioned supernatural chillers ("Gray Matter", "The Mangler", and most of the others). One of my favorite stories in the book was "I Know What You Need"; although not too scary, it was suspenseful and made a very good point about love and other things that can be mistaken for it. And although I don't see how they managed to make a fairly normal science fiction thriller out of the beyond twisted little story "The Lawnmower Man", it was still an enjoyable (but WEIRD) read. All in all, a great book for any Stephen King fan, horror lover, or just anyone who likes really good short fiction.
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