Books with title Night Shift

Night Shift—Stephen King’s first collection of stories—is an early showcase of the depths that King’s wicked imagination could plumb. In these 20 tales, we see mutated rats gone bad (“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a smoker who will try anything to stop (“Quitters, Inc.”); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome transformation (“Gray Matter”); and many more. This is Stephen King at his horrifying best.From the Paperback edition.

Night Shift—Stephen King’s first collection of stories—is an early showcase of the depths that King’s wicked imagination could plumb. In these 20 tales, we see mutated rats gone bad (“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a smoker who will try anything to stop (“Quitters, Inc.”); a reclusive alcoholic who begins a gruesome transformation (“Gray Matter”); and many more. This is Stephen King at his horrifying best.From the Paperback edition.

At Willard's department store, none of the night security guards survive for long, and eighteen-year-old Daniel Gale is about to discover why.Tired of living out of his backpack, he ignores the clerk's gossip about the old building being haunted and accepts the latest vacated position of night guard. On his first shift Daniel narrowly escapes a fatal fall down an elevator shaft and is rescued by Mary—a bossy and intriguing girl far too beautiful for after hours inventory.Anticipating every night shift as a chance to be with her, Daniel thinks his traveling days are over hoping that Manhattan is the place to call home. But as his life becomes more entwined with Willard's, Daniel senses unnatural changes and bizarre coincidences both with Mary and the store itself. Soon he begins to suspect Willard's is hiding something more sinister than gossip about ghosts—something that could make him the next casualty of the NIGHT SHIFT.

Late at night, when the owls are out, some people are awake―and doing all sorts of interesting things!They are on the night shift.Open this book, and you will discover the nighttime world of people who go to work when you are sleeping: Street sweeperWindow dresserRadio DJSecurity guardNewspaper printerBridge painterZookeeperFreighter captainTruck driverRoad workerDonut bakerFishermanTug boat captainWaitressCome meet them all!

Late at night, when the owls are out, some people are awake--and doing all sorts of interesting things! They are on the night shift. Open this book, and you will discover the nighttime world of people who go to work when you are sleeping: Street sweeperWindow dresserRadio DJSecurity guardNewspaper printerBridge painterZookeeperFreighter captainTruck driverRoad workerDonut bakerFishermanTug boat captainWaitress Come meet them all!

After play rehearsal, schoolchildren board a bus that no one recognizes. Soon, the sky grows darker, the moon and stars arrive early, and the students see something they didn't expect: the lights of their city far, far below them! The strange bus is drifting into outer space . . . and the students are running out of air. Step aboard the addictively creepy SCHOOL BUS OF HORRORS, where the final destination is never expected.