Some of these stories are just as good as I remembered them being when I was twelve or thirteen reading them, but like a lot of King, some of the language and characters have not age well. Even as recently as the new Creepshow series on Shudder has made “Gray Matter” into an episode. Now I am reading these stories again, and so many of them have been made into movies and pieces of anthology series, it is remarkable how much of the material has been mined for content. Night Shift was not the first King book I tried to read, but it was the first King book I finished. But I wanted to read Stephen King, so I decided to try his short stories.
It, The Stand, and The Tommyknockers are such long books that I had trouble starting them, let along getting through them. At that age, his books are huge and daunting. I have been reading Stephen King books since I was in junior high. Especially with an anthology that features the classic stories “Children of the Corn,” “The Lawnmower Man,” “Graveyard Shift,” “The Mangler,” and “Sometimes They Come Back”-which were all made into hit horror films.įrom the depths of darkness, where hideous rats defend their empire, to dizzying heights, where a beautiful girl hangs by a hair above a hellish fate, this chilling collection of twenty short stories will plunge readers into the subterranean labyrinth of the most spine-tingling, eerie imagination of our time.
Never trust your heart to the New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Stephen King.
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