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{{quote|''Let's talk, you and I. Let's talk about fear.''|'''Stephen King in the foreword'''}}
| title = Night Shift
| image = Night Shift (1978) front cover, first edition.jpg
| caption = First edition dust jacket
| author = Stephen King
| central theme =
| elevator pitch = A collection of twenty short stories
| genre = Horror
| publication date = February 1978
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{{quote|''Let's talk, you and I. Let's talk about fear.''|'''Stephen King''', in the foreword'''}}
 
'''''Night Shift''''' is [[Stephen King]]'s first collection of short stories, published in 1978. It contains many stories that appeared in magazines before, and some previously unpublished ones.
 
Not to be confused with the 1982 comedy film directed by [[Ron Howard]] and starring [[Michael Keaton]].
 
== {{examples|Stories in ''Night Shift'' ==:}}
 
* ''Jerusalem's Lot'': [[Scrapbook Story]] set in 1850. [[Homage]] to [[H.P. Lovecraft]].
* ''Graveyard Shift'': Workers cleaning up the basement of an old textile mill meet giant rats.
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* ''One for the Road'': A man's car is stranded in the abandoned city of Jerusalem's Lot. Sort of a sequel to ''[['Salem's Lot]]''.
* ''The Woman in the Room'': A man euthanizes his terminally ill mother with painkillers.
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==== Tropes in the short stories ====
 
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* [[After the End]]: ''Night Surf''.
* [[Alien Geometries]]: Inverted in ''I Am the Doorway'', where the alien eyes see a sieve as "a device constructed of geometrically impossible right angles".
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