Night Shift
Stephen King

Stephen King has brought together nineteen of his most unsettling short pieces - bizarre tales of dark doings and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unearthly forms... where noises in the walls and shadows by the bed are always a sign of something dreadful on the prowl.
The settings are familiar and unsuspected - a high school, a factory, a truck stop, a laundry, a field of Nebraska corn. But in Stephen King's world any place can serve as devil's ground... if the time of night is propitious, and the forces of darkness are strong, and the victims are caught just slightly off their guard...

This is a book of short stories. Some you will know by the name alone, some you will know by location or story, and some you might never have heard of before outside of this book. All are fantastic. With not a bad one in the bunch, this is a book both for the seasoned King fan and for someone who would like to get a feel for the variety of stories that King writes.

Jerusalem's Lot and One for the Road will take the reader back to 'Salem's Lot - one as a prequel and the other as a sequel.

Graveyard Shift, The Mangler, Trucks, Sometimes They Come Back, The Lawnmower Man, and Children of the Corn are probably all recognizable outside of this novel.

Night Surf takes us back into the world of The Stand, where Captain Trips has just run amok and a group of young people are hoping that they have survived the outbreak.

While the others might not take place in worlds we have been to before or spark a recognition in the name alone, they are just as good as the stories mentioned above.

I highly recommend this book to anyone. You will not regret reading it.

My rating: Five out of five snails.