![]() ![]() ![]() I actually very much disliked this opening story the first couple times I read NIGHT SHIFT. JERUSALEM’S LOT – Okay, let’s start off with a surprise. ![]() I’ll do my best here to recount my initial feelings about each of the 20 tales (beware of spoilers): They don’t pretend to be anything other than what they are: just good (or, in some cases, great) character-driven stories that are crisp and well written and, mostly, very scary. And that’s part of the beauty of these 20 stories. It didn’t take long for me to realize that that was easier hoped for than done. I read em, I loved em, and I immediately wanted to write stories just like em stories that would make other readers feel the same way I did. In fact, along with “The Monkey” (which was collected in SKELETON CREW), the 20 short stories that comprise NIGHT SHIFT are as responsible for my becoming a writer as anything else from my past. ![]() It feels like they have always been a part of me. I know I was in college at the time, and I know it was summer break and I devoured many of the stories sitting in the shade of the weeping willow tree in my side yard, but that’s all that comes back to me. I can’t even begin to guess at how many times I have read this collection, nor can I remember the first time I picked it up. ![]()
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