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{{quote|''Let's talk, you and I. Let's talk about fear.''|'''Stephen King in the foreword'''}}▼
| 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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'''''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 It contains many stories that appeared in magazines before, and some previously unpublished ones.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]].
* ''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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* [[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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* [[Mordor]]: Venus is portrayed like that in ''I Am the Doorway''. The protagonist says that his expedition around it was like "circling a haunted house in deep space."
* [[Nameless Narrative]]: ''Trucks'', ''The Man Who Loved Flowers'' and ''The Woman in the Room''. In the last, we know that the protagonist's name is John, because other characters call him on his name, but the narrative never does.
* [[Next Sunday
* [[No Ending]]: ''Grey Matter''.
* [[No Name Given]]: The narrators in ''Trucks'' and ''Strawberry Spring'', the protagonist (and [[Nameless Narrative|everybody else]]) in ''The Man who Loved Flowers''. In several other stories, only the first or last names of the main characters are given:
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