Night Shift
Night Shift is a 1960 vampire fiction and witch fiction novel by Stephen King. The story is set in Milford and Chapelwaite, in 1850. It features Booth, Herb Tooklander and Gerard Lumley. It deals with Euthanasia, terminal illness, vampires and crucifixes.
Open Library readers give it an average of 4.4 out of 5 from 27 ratings, and 628 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 65 editions across 7 languages.
It runs to roughly 383 pages — 7–8 hours of reading at an average pace.
About Night Shift
Stephen King has brought together nineteen of his most unsettling short pieces--bizarre tales of dark doing and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unearthly forms...where noises in the walls and shadows by the bed are always signs of something dreadful on the prowl. The settings are familiar and unsuspected--a high school, a factory, a truck stop, a laundry, a field of Nebraska corn. But in Stephen King's world any place can serve as devil's ground...if the time of night is propitious, and the forces of darkness are strong, and the victims are caught just slightly off their guard... ([source](https://stephenking.com/library/story_collection/night_shift_flap.html))
Awards & lists
- ✦World Fantasy Awards 1979 — Best Collection (nominee)
- ✦Locus Awards 1979 — Best Collection (nominee)
Quick answers
Who wrote Night Shift?
Night Shift was written by Stephen King and first published in 1960.
What genre is Night Shift?
It is usually shelved as Vampire Fiction, Witch Fiction, Demons & Devils and Horror.
How long is Night Shift?
The median edition has 383 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.
What books are similar to Night Shift?
Readers who like it often enjoy Young Monsters, Strange Maine and Asimov's Ghosts / Asimov's Monsters [24 stories].
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