MysteryChildren's
Night Shift
1960·383 pages
Nineteen unsettling short stories where familiar settings turn into devil's ground for horror, madness, and the supernatural.
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Nineteen unsettling short stories where familiar settings turn into devil's ground for horror, madness, and the supernatural.
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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 gro...
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Sexual content
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Brief romantic subplots and implied sexual situations in a few stories.
Violence & gore
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Graphic violence, body horror, dismemberment, and gore across multiple stories.
Profanity
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Moderate profanity and strong language in several stories.
Substance use
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Brief, non-central mentions of alcohol and drug use.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ characters or themes depicted.
Religious content
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Religious cults, rituals, and clergy appear in stories like Children of the Corn.
Magic & witchcraft
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Supernatural forces present but not traditional fantasy spellcasting.
Occult / demonology
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Demons, possession, ritual magic, and occult horror central to several tales.
Political content
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No political or ideological messaging present.
Self-harm / suicide
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Themes of despair and one implied suicide in a single story.
Abuse & suffering
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Child abuse, domestic violence, and systemic cruelty depicted in multiple stories.
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