Graveyard Shift

[Lily Sawyer]

I scared the snot out of myself at age 14 when I discovered Night Shift at a neighbor's home while babysitting their kids. Once the kids were in bed, I started reading...it was like a horrific accident on the freeway: you can't look away. Jerusalem's Lot sucked me in; Graveyard Shift froze me in the chair; and I was a total teenaged mess by the time I finished The Mangler. This was my first experience with Stephen King, and I was a goner from the first page. Good, albeit scared, memories.

[michal]

I was way older when I came around to Night Shift. I found it in a second hand book display in Bangkok and just picked it up for the journey. My GOD, what good stories! Since then I've reread it dozens of times (well, let's be honest - the stories I loved anyway) and it definitely got me in to Mr. King's short stories.

[aptpupil]

Night Shift remains my favorite SK short story collection thirty years on.

"Children Of The Corn" and "Sometimes They Come Back" left a lasting impression.

Brave girl to take it on at 14 though, Caroline. :eyebrow:

[vivazebool]

I bought Night Shift when I was ten years old. That was my intro to King at a very young age.

[redrayne63]

I myself discovered Stephen King as a 16 yer old teen who watched her 5 brothers and sisters alone at night in the middle of a huge cornfield way out in the country in a old fashioned gothic style farmhouse no less!!! creepy times and Ive been insensed every since....thanx Steve!!!

[Lily Sawyer]

I myself discovered Stephen King as a 16 yer old teen who watched her 5 brothers and sisters alone at night in the middle of a huge cornfield way out in the country in a old fashioned gothic style farmhouse no less!!! creepy times and Ive been insensed every since....thanx Steve!!!

Babysitters never had it so bad as when they had just discovered Stephen King...on a night when they'd accepted a gig.

[strange]

this was the first short story collection I ever read and I loved almost every story. I got to admit one or two I wasn't huge on (Strawberry Spring for example) but there were all good just some were better than others like Quitters Inc, I Am the Doorway, Sometimes they Come back, the Boogeyman, the lawnmower man, brilliant. Also the more serious stories the Last Rung on The Ladder adn the one about euthanasia were realli deep and moving.

[Jojo87]

This was my second King book and I really liked this one. My first was also a short storie book.

[aeroplane]

Speaking about the Graveyard Shift story, I always wondered what became of the men who went downstairs to check on Warwick and Hall.

[Pucker]

Speaking about the Graveyard Shift story, I always wondered what became of the men who went downstairs to check on Warwick and Hall.

Nothing pleasant . . . I can assure you.

[jwashburn]

I liked "Sometimes They Come Back," but the whole summoning the demon part was quite a twist.

[Breger3]

Ok, was Graveyard Shift made into a movie? I seem to recall one with this type of story line, but I'm wondering if I'm just merging a bunch of movies together and thinking it's a whole different movie.

[Talisman42]

Graveyard Shift is NOT the story you want to read just before you turn the lights out to go to sleep.
I can still see the Queen rat in my dreams.

[Silhouette86]

Graveyard Shift was definitely part of Stephen King's best short story collection...that I've read, anyway.

[Hellbreed]

I am thirteen, and I am an absolute Stephen Fanatic. Scared of horror movies, maybe, but for some reason, the books have only ever succeeded in creeping me out a little.

[jkcrue]

Yes, there is a movie called Graveyard Shift released in 1990.

[jkcrue]

This was one of the scariest stories I've read so far. I'm enjoying the Night Shift collection.

[jellydonut25]

Children of the Corn and Graveyard Shift horrified me...and I read those stories for the first time when I was 22...

[aKINGreader4ever]

Hey All:laugh:,

I finished reading Graveyard Shift last night, I haven't read any of these stories since I was 15 yrs old and needed the review. I thought Graveyard Shift was well done, to the point. The movie I liked slightly better because it did involve more content and more characters. I luva majority of hte stories in the book, but I just couldn't get into Jerusalem's Lot, it was a snoozer to me. I guess because I read mostly at night, but I just couldn't bite into this 1.
-Kris-

[latenightreader]

Read Graveyard Shift last night...enjoyable enough but the ending just lost me. Almost to a point of rolling my eyes...all that mayhem going on on the sub-basement...surely it was heard by the other men, but no they decide to go down there as well.

[Lina]

Yesterday I read Graveyard Shift. Amazing story. Really scary. i loved it :eyebrow: