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== Stories in ''Night Shift'': ==
* ''Jerusalem's Lot'': [[Scrapbook Story]] set in 1850. [[Homage]] to [[
* ''Graveyard Shift'': Workers cleaning up the basement of an old textile mill meet giant rats.
* ''Night Surf'': Post-apocalyptic story, where nearly all humans have died in an influenza pandemic. Precursor to ''[[The Stand]]''.
* ''I Am the Doorway'': Former astronaut discovers that an alien lifeform inhabits his body, and eyes appear on his fingers.
* ''[[The Mangler (
* ''The Bogeyman'': A man tells how his children were killed one by one by the [[Things That Go Bump in
* ''Gray Matter'': A man turns into a [[Blob Monster]] after drinking a can of contaminated beer.
* ''Battleground'': A professional hitman is attacked by living toy soldiers.
* ''[[Trucks]]'': Trucks and other big machines revolt against humanity. Basis of the film ''[[
* ''Sometimes They Come Back'': A teacher's brother was killed by teenage greasers when they were kids. Many years later, they appear in his class, still as teenagers. Made into an instantly-forgotten movie (that somehow got [[Sequelitis|two sequels ANYWAY]])
* ''Strawberry Spring'': A story about a serial killer with a [[Twist Ending]].
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* ''The Last Rung on the Ladder'': A man tells a childhood story about him and his sister who later committed suicide. Very different from King's usual style.
* ''The Man who Loved Flowers'': Another story about a [[Serial Killer]] with a [[Twist Ending]].
* ''One for the Road'': A man's car is stranded in the abandoned city of Jerusalem's Lot. Sort of a sequel to ''[[
* ''The Woman in the Room'': A man euthanizes his terminally ill mother with painkillers.
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* [[Living Toys]]: The toy soldiers in ''Battleground''.
* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: The protagonist's hair at the end of ''The Mangler''. In ''Grey Matter'', the protagonist mentions that a sewer worker that he knew once saw something horrible in the sewers, which caused his hair to turn white in fifteen minutes.
* [[Lost in
* [[The Mafia]]: Quitters, Inc. was founded by a gangster named Mort "Three-Fingers" Minelli, after he got lung cancer from smoking.
* [[Mercy Kill]]: In ''The Woman in the Room'', the protagonist gives painkillers to his mother who is dying of cancer. He knows that they will kill her, and so does she, but neither of them say it openly.
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* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]] / [[Swarm of Rats]]: In ''Graveyard Shift''.
* [[Serial Killer]]: The protagonists in {{spoiler|''Strawberry Spring'' and ''The Man Who Loved Flowers''}}.
* [[Shout
* [[Teens Are Monsters]]: The children of Gatlin in ''Children of the Corn'' and the teenage killers in ''Sometimes They Come Back''.
* [[Things That Go Bump in
* [[Town
* [[Twist Ending]]: Several:
** In ''Strawberry Spring'', the narrator describes the murders committed at his college community by a [[Serial Killer]] nicknamed "Springheel Jack". At the end {{spoiler|he realizes that the killer is his [[Split Personality]]}}.
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* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Renshaw in ''Battleground''. He's a hitman who killed a toymaker, Hans Morris; the murderous toy soldiers are sent to him by Morris's mother as a revenge.
* [[Vomiting Cop]]: Officer Hunton in ''The Mangler'' after seeing the remains of a woman caught in the machine.
* [[Weakened
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