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| Book Listers UNITE! : The Best Short Story Collections of all time | | 9 | HannahHolborn, Monday 7:13pm | |
| 888 Challenge : Carlos 888 in '08 | | 62 | CarlosMcRey, Monday 10:53am | |
| Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night : Anyone find Stephen King actually scary? | | 82 | jseger9000, August 5 | |
| King's Dear Constant Readers : First King book? | | 24 | Nightwater, August 5 | |
| King's Dear Constant Readers : Welcome! - introduction thread for new members | | 49 | coloradogirl14, July 30 | |
| King's Dear Constant Readers : Which movie did the book justice? | | 72 | cal8769, July 1 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 14 June 2008 | | 227 | Talbin, June 21 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Mensheviklibrarian's 78 books for '08! | | 9 | mensheviklibrarian, June 18 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : fruits and vegetables -- get your 5 a day | | 17 | laytonwoman3rd, June 12 | |
| Book talk : Another silly game---part 4 | | 408 | plohman, May 29 | |
| King's Dear Constant Readers : Question rel. to Salems Lot for Dark Tower readers | | 4 | stephmo, May 26 | |
| Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night : Those evil children | | 12 | bibliobeck, April 11 | |
| Book talk : Favorite King Book | | 33 | dk_nj, March 17 | |
| Bug Collectors : Books deleted? | | 16 | timspalding, February 24 | |
| 888 Challenge : Ruthbie's challenge | | 9 | Ruthbie, February 22 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : What books did Santa bring you? | | 53 | StarGazer72, January 4 | |
| Dormant: King's Dear Constant Readers : Your favourite King book? | | 39 | sodapopinski, January 3 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : CarlosMcRey's | | 32 | CarlosMcRey, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Do you prefer reading alone, or with others? | | 26 | ExVivre, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Twilight zone type short stories | | 5 | Jesse_wiedinmyer, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : You've Got 'Em, So Share 'Em! | | 168 | megkrahl, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : Scary book recommendations? | | 6 | SqueakyChu, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: King's Dear Constant Readers : Reading in chronological order | | 14 | kernunrex, June 2007 | |
| Dormant: Readers Under 30 : Anyone have any good suggestions for books to read... | | 8 | derfla3101980, May 2007 | |
| Dormant: Outhouses! : But is it healthy? | | 9 | darrow, March 2007 | |
| King's Dear Constant Readers : Stephen King Game: Guess the character/story/book | | 214 | klarsenmd, Today 12:12pm |
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| 1001 Books to read before you die : 1001 Short Stories you must read before you die -- let's have 'em! | | 87 | jfetting, Sunday 4:51pm |
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| King's Dear Constant Readers : Name this S.K? story | | 195 | TheBentley, July 15 |
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Its defintely not the Green Mile or Children of the Corn.
and jseger i guess you can consider it a hint to the clue but i dont think it will help any. ... my mind has glazed over. I keep watching the boards for the answer but have no good guesses of my own.
I'm guessing Children of the Corn will be right. The quote makes me think of a couple driving a long distance and stopping. I'm just not sure if the first part of CandiBelle's message I don't know why, but that almost sounds like Children of the Corn. (Wow, I'm impressed with the touchstone. I typed the name of the story and it immediately brought up Night Shift.) ... Alice Munro
…The Collected Stories, Arthur C. Clarke
…The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
…Night Shift, Stephen King
…Nightfall & other stories, Isaac Asimov
…Bloodchild & other stories, Octavia E. Butler
…The Collection, Bentley Littl ... I think I started with Nightshift (short stories) as a teenager. My ultimate favorite may be The Stand. It scared the heck out of me. Salem's Lot is a fast, scary read. It depends on what you are looking for. 7. Stephen King
1. The Regulators
2. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
3. Night Shift
4. Skeleton Crew
5. Rose Madder
6. The Dark Tower
7. The Talisman
8. Dolores Clairborne ... had to put one of his books down out of fear, although I remember being horrified by his short story I am the Doorway from Night Shift: the one about the man who had the eyes embedded in his hands that made his hands itch. *shudder* It STILL freaks me out to this day. ... a lot of time to spend. It is absolutely brilliant and SO much more than your typical horror novel. I also recommend Night Shift - it's his first collection of short stories, and I love each and every one of them.
And don't worry if you can't get into the first book you read. Experimen ... Children of the Corn?
#91 - I really enjoyed Skeleton Crew, although my personal favorite will always be Night Shift! ... it really creeped me out.
The theme of complicity and family discord made me think of Stephen King's "The Bogeyman" from Night Shift, which manages to build up some nice tension. However, I can't imagine I'd enjoy rereading the story that much, because the twist ending sort of makes most of ... ... Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear by Don Wood
Big Cherry Holler by Adriana Trigiani
Children of the Corn by Stephen King
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
... King's Other Works." There isn't much mention of Ben Mears/Mark Petrie outside of It and Jerusalem's Lot from Night Shift. Then again, so many past King characters just randomly pop up for 2 paragraphs in books, it's hard to tell. children of the corn baby ... though.
I guess I like his short stories more than most of the long stuff, barring The Stand. Apt Pupil. The Mangler. Night Shift. Many, many more. ... catching up to do. I don't precisely know what I'm going to start next, but I have been going through the short stories in Night Shift.
C'mon, folks, I need some "tough love" to get me going.... ... >
Crescendo - Mary McCarthy
The Shining - Stephen King
Near Darkness - Dean R. Koontz
Night Shift - Stephen King
Different Seasons - Stephen King
Strangers - Dean R. Koontz
Four Past Midnight - Stephen King
Hm, weird.
Thanks for Satanskinderen, I corrected it now (deleted one entry). I had opened my Book Collector program and was checking if titles were in my catalog by searching them. This one didn't turn up any results. ... set despite the fact that you have only one, and that a number of Stephen King titles show up on your duplicate list. Is Satanskinderen one of the titles that you were missing? You have two copies in your catalog now, one entered today and one entered April 2007.
Children of the Corn - Stephen King ... the Room.
However, it was released on VHS with another student film. That one was The Boogeyman. The tape is called The Night Shift Collection. Unfortunately it isn't available on DVD.
The Night Shift story that got me was the one about the astronaut with eyes on his hand. (I'm not at ... ... Zone-ish, but the last quarter would turn into horror. The ones that I remember liking that fit this description were:
-Night Shift, a collection of short stories. Some are horror, but from what I remember, most aren't.
-Misery
-Gerald's Game
-Dead Zone
I also thought the Shinin ... ... I tore through Skeleton Crew, Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, but still haven't read all the stories in Night Shift, Nightmares and Dreamscapes or Everything's Eventual. I've loved what I've read from each, but haven't read any of these all the way through. ... to love and after that I had a lot of fun with it.
The story of his that I think scared me the most is a short story in Night Shift about a man whose children have died and he is telling a psychiatrist that he believes a boogeyman has killed them. That story had me checking my wardrobe for ... ... haven't read anything by Stephen King for at least 15 years, but I used to love some of the stories from his anthology Night Shift. Some of my (creepy) favourites were:
- Graveyard Shift
- Grey Matter
- Battleground
- Trucks
- Quitters, Inc
- Sometimes They Come Back
- Lawnmower Man ... ... by Fred Vargas
Unless victory comes: Combat with a machine gunner in Patton's third army by Gene Garrison
Night Shift by Stephen King
The Brothers Gruesome by Dahos Zak
The Last light of the sun by Guy Gavriel Kay
Collected Stories by W. Somerset Maug ... ... one of his best), that came out in 1987. That was 20 years ago.
Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Stand, Night Shift (which were the first short stories I read after reading Edgar Allan Poe) and Dead Zone, all among my favorites of his, were realeased before 1980. My ... (3.) The Stephen King Collection by Stephen King - finished 11/6/07
Collection of early Stephen King short stories. Despite King's reputation as "master of horror," I actually found his horror stories less effective than some of his straighter work. (Although "The Mangler" was quite good. ... ... around.
I remember in college my girlfriend at the time asked what I was reading, it was Stephen King's wonderful Night Shift Collection (and why don't his touchstones work, is he not popular enough, heee heeee), so we snuggled together while I read to her aloud. It was a magical ... ... his career, and I much prefer them to any of his horror stories. Try some of his short story collections. My favourite was Night Shift.
I think that Ray Bradbury also writes Twilight Zone-ish stories. Nightshift by Stephen King... 6 years after reading it I'm still afraid of open closet doors at night.... ... "I can't sleep with the closet door open, even though I sleep in total darkness."
Me neither. I read Stephen King's Nightshift when I was younger and I'm still scared to death when I wake up and I see the closet door a bit open.
... heavily revised; essentially a new book):
Carrie (1974)
'Salem's Lot (1975)
The Shining (1977)
Rage (1977)
Night Shift (1978)
The Stand (1978)
The Long Walk (1979)
The Dead Zone (1979)
Firestarter (1980)
Roadwork (1981)
Danse Macabre (1981)
Cujo (1981)
The ... It's really, really hard just to pick, so I'm gonna cheat a little:
Favourite Collection: Nift Shift
Favourite Short Story: The Mist (IMO, no productor, no director, no movie can ever do this story justice, I am sadden that they think they can)
Favourite Bachman Book: The Long Walk
F ... ... all the windows are closed each time I re-read Salem's Lot and the closet doors are shut whenever I reach The Bogeyman (Night Shift)--LOL--and I'm always reading these stories at night.
I consider myself a constant reader because I can always go back to his early works (those before The Dar ... ... novels):
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
The Shining - Stephen King
Night Shift - Stephen King
Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Les Mis ... ... to appropriately translate to the screen. Book: B-, Film: C
Children of the Corn - Story included in book Night Shift (1978), Film (1984) - Now Hollywood started to adapt 20 to 30 page short stories into film. If adaptations of some of King's more verbose novels suffer for the ... ... all of King's novels in chronological order. So far, I've re-read Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, Rage, Night Shift, The Stand: the complete and uncut edition, and am currently starting on The Long Walk.
I am also planning on reading Heart-shaped Box by his son Joe ... ... with a few out-of-sequence.
Among my re-reads since 2000 are:
Carrie
'Salem's Lot
The Shining
Night Shift
Everything's Eventual
The Stand
The Colorado Kid
The Dead Zone
The Long Walk
Firestarter
Cell ... storyline is mindboggling, yet you never have a hard time believing it. Runners up are The Shining, Pet Sematary, and Night Shift. I don't think there's one story in Night Shift that I don't enjoy. ... I get to 2004 (when the last was published).
Carrie (1974)
Salem's Lot (1976)
Rage (1977)
The Shining (1977)
Night Shift (1978)
The Stand (1978) - uncut and revised edition in 1990
The Long Walk (1979)
The Dead Zone (1979)
Firestarter (1980)
Roadwork (1981)
Cujo ( ... BWAAAH-HAAAH-HAAAAAH-HAAAAAAAH!!!
Hmmmm, LT WC picks, huh?
How about:
Night Shift, Skeleton Crew and Nightmares and Dreamscapes short story collections by Stephen King
Other great short story anthologies:
Blue World by Robert McCammon
Sometimes They Bite, Like a ...
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