The introduction was written by one of King's favorite authors, John D. Night Shift is the first book for which King wrote a foreword. The stories "Jerusalem's Lot", "Quitters Inc.", "The Last Rung on the Ladder", and " The Woman in the Room" appeared for the first time in this collection. Nine of the twenty short stories in the book had first appeared in various issues of Cavalier from 1970–1975 others were originally published in Penthouse, Cosmopolitan, Gallery, Ubris, and Maine Magazine. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you.The book was published on the heels of The Shining (1977 Doubleday) and was King's fifth published book (including Rage, which was published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman). Fair warning: You will lose a good deal of sleep. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. In story after story, several published here for the first time, he will take you to places you've never been before, places that are both dark and vividly illuminated. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. There's something here for readers of every stripe and predilection-classic tales of the macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle, even a teleplay and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt piece of Little League baseball that first appeared in The New Yorker.
The long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling have never been so richly demonstrated.
What does it all mean? What else could it mean? First there was Night Shift (1978), then Skeleton Crew (1985), and now Stephen King is back with a third collection of stories-a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume, with passages leading every which way to hell. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac.
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