NIGHT SHIFT.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. Inscribed and signed by King on title page, and dated by him in 1980. The author's fourth book and first collection of short fiction. More than half the contents (twelve of twenty stories) have become the basis for films; The Boogeyman, Children of the Corn, The Last Rung on the Ladder, The Lawnmower Man, Graveyard Shift, Sometimes They Come Back, The Mangler, Night Surf, Strawberry Spring, Trucks, I Know What You Need and The Woman in the Room. Children of the Corn and Sometimes They Come Back have spawned numerous film sequels. [Reference: Barron (ed), Horror Literature 4-170. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1116-20. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-132]. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a tiny 6 mm closed tear with creases to base of spine panel. (35335). Item #35335
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