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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by redrayne63 View Post
    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.

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    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.

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

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by aeroplane View Post
    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.

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