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  • Night Shift: Selections

  • By: Stephen King
  • Narrated by: John Glover
  • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (440 ratings)
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Night Shift: Selections

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: John Glover
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Summary

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)1995 Random House Audio, A Division of Random House Inc.

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where's the other 4 stories

this collection is missing children of the corn, trucks, one for the road and I Am the Doorway

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Good collection of stories

Good collection of stories, listens like a tales from the crypt comic book. There are some seriously spooky offerings. Warning! I’m sure that this audiobook is missing some stories that appear in the published book. The only one I could remember not being on the audio book was Children of the Corn but i’m sure there are more missing. 3/5

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Not the full Night Shift!

DOES NOT include One For The Road, I Am The Doorway or Children Of The Corn (which is particularly deceitful as the cover art clearly alludes to that story - grrr!). Also, they've messed around with the story order so they're different to the order featured in the book - why??!! Having said all that the stories, of course, are great and the narrator is superb - Quitters Inc. in particular is one of my all time favourites. Still well worth a purchase/credit.
... Also, the omitted stories aren't available elsewhere - so, so, annoying.

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Brilliant

I loved this book of short stories so much that I listened to them all in one day. I couldn't stop listening. Some of the stories are mediocre, but most are brilliant. Stephen King is one of my favorite authors and he is just as good at writing short stories like these as he is at full-length novels. Well worth the read.

The narrator was fantastic, he really helped to set the story at times, he has a great voice and is easy to listen to.

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Disappointing

I was very disappointed with this.
Left out for no apparent reason some great short stories - Trucks, One For The Road, Children of the Corn and I Am the Doorway.
Yet the weakest stories - Last Rung on the Ladder and The Woman in the Room were left in....
John Glover quickly becomes irritating and the musical sound effects add nothing...
Don't get me wrong - Night Shift is an excellent book but the audible version certainly does not do it justice...

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where is one for the road?

I got this specifically for one of the stories (one for the road) which I have always loved, the blurb mentions it but it isn't there!! Disappointed.

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All Hail John Glover!!

Night Shift is by far King's finest short story collection and closest to pure horror rather than the sci-fi influenced selection of 'Skeleton Crew' or the Ray Bradbury flavours of 'Nightmares and Dreamscapes'. Here we have some of his best stories including 'Strawberry Spring', 'The Ledge', 'Graveyard Shift ' and 'I know what you need'. Presiding over them all is 'Jerusalem's Lot' which is as good as some of his full length works and cries out still for a movie adaptation.

Its fitting then that such a broad spectrum of chills is given a fine voice in the form of John Glover, who effortlessly gives life to the stories and characters with such ease that this title immediately deserves a second listen. Glover is an immensely talented actor, able to give dignity to even the most hoary old lines as anyone who has seen Smallville will testify. Fear, wonder, scorn and longing are all here and it's a shame that one of the most famous stories - Children of the Corn - is not included. It would have been given the perfect narrator. Also missing are 'Trucks' and 'One for the Road' so be warned this is not the full collection.

For newcomers to King its worth noting that ten of the original twenty stories have been adapted for film or television (Children of the Corn runs to eight films thus far) and with good reason - they are great tales and extremely well told. For fans, this should be first on your list and easily worth a credit.

With the caveat of the missing stories, heartily recommended.

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Missing a few stories.

Good read but is missing at least 3 stories from the published book. Gutted as they are some of my favourites, including the short story follow up to Salems Lot "one for the road"
However John Glover does a fantastic job of narration adding his own spin to some of the characters makes for a great listen

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  • 03-02-21

Missing stories and in the wrong order...

Such a shame as Glover’s reading of the book is really good. But the audiobook stories are all in a different order to the novel stories and four are missing from the audiobook. Update please!

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  • 04-05-15

Great for bed time story's!

Well read and varied :)

I would recommend this title

Give it a go

You might just survive it! Ha ha

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