“Big Wheels: A Tale of The Laundry Game (Milkman #2)" And here’s a warning while we’re at it: of “Survivor Type,” King wrote that, while he prefers his stories grisly, this one might have gone too far even for him.ġ9. Number of stories: 22 (including a novella and two poems)įun facts: “For Owen” is a poem King wrote for his son. In another story, a supermarket becomes the site of a life-or-death face-off between an ever-growing mist consuming a town (“The Mist” - technically a novella, and one of King’s most famous shorter works). In one tale, a word processor - an otherwise boring and practical tool - becomes a deadly device in the hands of a man ("Word Processor of the Gods"). This is the rallying cry of Skeleton Crew. Sometimes the best type of horror is the kind that turns the seemingly normal and innocuous into something sinister and downright terrifying. "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: Hope Springs Eternal"Ĥ. Eventually, King and his editor decided to publish all four stories together, positioning the book as “something different” - hence the title of the book.ġ. And while “Apt Pupil” and “The Breathing Method” could still very much be considered scary, Different Seasons stands out for the lack of sinister supernatural beings or luridly horrific images that have become staples of some of the other Stephen King short stories.įun facts: King wrote each of these four stories at different times and left them unpublished for a while because his editors had expressed concern that readers wouldn’t buy non-horror fiction from King. Indeed, its first story inspired the popular film (and an obsession with Morgan Freeman’s voice): The Shawshank Redemption. King's first collection of novellas has a more dramatic than horrific bent.
So rest assured: from deeply emotional stories - such as “Last Rung on the Ladder,” which is about a man who blames himself for his sister’s suicide - to gruesome post-apocalyptic tales like “Night Surf,” Night Shift has something for all horror lovers.įun facts: Six of the stories in this collection have been made into feature-length films: "Children of the Corn," "The Lawnmower Man," "Graveyard Shift," "The Mangler," and "Sometimes They Come Back.” If you’ve ever watched an 80s zombie movie and found the low-budget, unrealistic gore scarier than the high-quality effects of today’s horror films, you’ll be a fan of Night Shift: its stories might lack the finesse of some of King’s later works, but they are the stuff of nightmares nonetheless.
This was King’s first collection of short stories, and let’s just say he entered this realm of literature not with a whimper, but with a bang.
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