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Gray Matter and Other Stories From Night Shift
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- Narrated by: John Glover
- Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
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Graveyard Shift
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- Written by: Stephen King
- Narrated by: John Glover
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
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Consummate master of his craft, Stephen King has kept millions awake past midnight shivering at tales that probe the shadows and reveal the dark side. Now listeners can chill to this second dramatic unabridged production of short stories from his best selling book, Night Shift. It brings Stephen King's demonic stories fully to life - and the terror even closer to home.
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My Halloween read
- By KAT M K on 2019-11-26
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The Lawnmower Man and Other Stories From Night Shift
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Playing upon our most primal fears, Stephen King draws us into his sinister world - a place where sane men and women see their lives shattered, their realities distorted and destroyed. Now, listeners can probe even deeper into the mind of the master storyteller of the macabre, with this third unabridged production of 5 classic short stories, from King's best selling collection, Night Shift.
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
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A master storyteller at his best - the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King's finest gifts to his constant fan. "I made them especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth."
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not bad, but not his best work
- By Can't Read Enough - Kindle Rocks! on 2018-09-19
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I
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it's really boring
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Four Past Midnight
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- Length: 29 hrs and 39 mins
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Four chiller novellas set to keep listeners awake long after bedtime. One Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only 11 passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. Something's waiting for them, you see.
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2 outta 4 isnt bad
- By Ryan Granson on 2018-09-22
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume II
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- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King's classic best-selling short story collection.
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Graveyard Shift
- and Other Stories from Night Shift
- Written by: Stephen King
- Narrated by: John Glover
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Consummate master of his craft, Stephen King has kept millions awake past midnight shivering at tales that probe the shadows and reveal the dark side. Now listeners can chill to this second dramatic unabridged production of short stories from his best selling book, Night Shift. It brings Stephen King's demonic stories fully to life - and the terror even closer to home.
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My Halloween read
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Written by: Stephen King
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The Lawnmower Man and Other Stories From Night Shift
- Written by: Stephen King
- Narrated by: John Glover
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Playing upon our most primal fears, Stephen King draws us into his sinister world - a place where sane men and women see their lives shattered, their realities distorted and destroyed. Now, listeners can probe even deeper into the mind of the master storyteller of the macabre, with this third unabridged production of 5 classic short stories, from King's best selling collection, Night Shift.
Written by: Stephen King
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
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- Written by: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Dylan Baker, Brooke Bloom, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
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A master storyteller at his best - the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Magnificent, eerie, utterly compelling, these stories comprise one of King's finest gifts to his constant fan. "I made them especially for you," says King. "Feel free to examine them, but please be careful. The best of them have teeth."
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not bad, but not his best work
- By Can't Read Enough - Kindle Rocks! on 2018-09-19
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I
- Written by: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Stephen King, Tim Curry, Rob Lowe, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King's classic best-selling short story collection.
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it's really boring
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- Narrated by: James Woods, Tim Sample, Willem Dafoe, and others
- Length: 29 hrs and 39 mins
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Four chiller novellas set to keep listeners awake long after bedtime. One Past Midnight: "The Langoliers" takes a red-eye flight from LA to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only 11 passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they hadn't. Something's waiting for them, you see.
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2 outta 4 isnt bad
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A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King's classic best-selling short story collection.
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Just After Sunset - call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for Stephen King.
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Just After Sunset
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Quality Stories - Perfect Performers
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33 yrs of reading his books.
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Great stories, presentation needs works
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Compelling; scary accurate prediction of politics
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I love Stephen King!
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All the stories in this collection from Stephen King are related to the Vietnam War. King fans will recognize echoes of The Dark Tower series in the collection's first story, "Low Men in Yellow Coats." As the characters develop over the next four stories, King's version of the Vietnam War becomes one of his most frightening tales ever.
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great book, bad useless music
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The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet", King's original e-book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.
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Great
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Barton Dawes' unremarkable but comfortable existence suddenly takes a turn for the worst. A new highway extension is being built right over the laundry plant where he works - and right over his home. Dawes isn't the sort of man who will take an insult of this magnitude lying down. His steadfast determination to fight the inevitable course of progress drives his wife and friends away while he tries to face down the uncaring bureaucracy that has destroyed his life.
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Atypical King
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The Running Man
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It was the ultimate death game in a nightmare future America. The year is 2025 and reality TV has grown to the point where people are willing to wager their lives for a chance at a billion-dollar jackpot. Ben Richards is desperate - he needs money to treat his daughter's illness. His last chance is entering a game show called The Running Man where the goal is to avoid capture by Hunters who are employed to kill him.
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Twisted and fun
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20th Century Ghosts
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Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon on an afternoon in 1945...Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town.
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Meh.
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The Stand
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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides - or are chosen.
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Brilliant
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Publisher's Summary
Lying on the couch in Dr. Harper's office, keeping a close watch on the closet door, Lester Billings relates the bizarre tale of "The Boogeyman" who has taken his children's lives. In "I Know What You Need," a pretty college co-ed finds the perfect lover while on a campus in Maine. A young man thrills to the eerie mists of a murderous "Strawberry Spring." A winter storm hits and a group of old codgers who regularly gather around the Reliable at Henry's Nite-Owl discover the gruesome fate of an old crony in the title story, "Gray Matter." A son, horrified by the grim indignity of death, struggles with his love for "The Woman in the Room," while a hit man, back from a successful assignment, finds himself besieged by a toy army that turns his New York penthouse into a deadly "Battleground."
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- bonita
- 2016-07-09
We need a complete and unabridged version
My advice to long time King fans and newcomers alike is to skip these three Nightshift samplings, and to wait for a complete anthology. This collection, along with two others available from audible, were released in the mid 90s. They sound as if they were ripped directly from the old cassettes in some places, and this distracted me at times. Yes, Audible has the three volumes making up the old Bantom Doubleday Dell audio Nightshift collection, but be warned. A few stories from the anthology have never been published on audio before. Even if an audible customer were to purchase Gray Matter and other stories, Lawnmower Man and other stories, and Graveyard Shift and other stories, they'd be missing a few.The unincluded tales are I am the Doorway, One for the Road, Children of The Corn, and Trucks. Hopefully, Simon and Schuster will choose to give audiobook readers Nightshift in its entirety soon, including the prefatory matterial. They've recently released the complete Skeleton Crew anthology three or so days before this review was written, so I prefer to be optimistic.
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- Danielle Bevil
- 2020-07-26
Missing audio
There are 3 to 4 second bursts of audio missing in chapters 4 through 6. In some places it sounds like its missing an entire paragraph. You might want to have a paper copy of the book to fill in the blanks.
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- J. Higgins
- 2016-08-02
Poor Sound Quality
Stories are fun, John Glover is great, but fuzzy sound quality detracts from the experience.
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- The Davage
- 2008-07-08
Lame
Narrator and audio quality is fine.
Stories are not Stephen Kings best work. Boring, silly, and unimaginative at best.
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- Breezybealle
- 2016-10-11
Why do I bother?
I'm not even sure why I bothered to use a credit. King is a masterful storyteller. His prose is engaging and vividly descriptive, his characters strongly developed. But somehow, even though time after I time I keep wishing his next short story will get better, sadly, they do not. His anthologies are full of boring tales in which do not hold my interest, but still, I read them all, in hopes of finding that one diamond in the rough. I know it's there somewhere. His full length novels are amazing. It's almost as if he's two different people. Or maybe its just that his strength lies in stories that are long and drawn out. I will say that even though the plots were severely lacking in substance and "I know what you need" was the only story I even remotely enjoyed, the narration was superb. A definite A+ performance. But, in my personal opinion, this was definitely not worth a credit.
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- Jessica Henson
- 2015-01-28
Loved it!
Great! Enjoyed from start to finish! Definitely recommend it! Good for relaxing at home or being on the go. Will listen again.
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- John Worth Moore IV
- 2020-07-21
creepy stuff
John Glover is great, just wish all stories were in one book. King is best
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- Neno
- 2022-10-17
matter of perspective
i read this in an effort to read all of king’s work in order of publication. that said, it’s an old recording so the quality isn’t fantastic but it’s more nostalgic than distracting.
biggest bummer is that to read the whole book you have to spend 3 credits - recommend just buying these if you want them, not credit worthy imho
as for the stories, they’re okay. but in context of king’s work he was a young pup
the stories included in this part:
- the boogeyman
- i know what you need
- strawberry springs
- the woman in the room
- battle ground
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- Sarah
- 2021-08-31
overall good
the audio quality is a little sub par but not enough to ruin it.
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- Richard S. Swol
- 2020-11-05
Vintage Stephen King
More stories from Night Shift, King's first collection. Winners all that will stick with you for years to come... I know that they stuck with me since I first read them in the 70's.
My only issue with the collection is that it sub-divides the book into three audiobooks. So rather than buying one audiobook, you need to get three to get the entire physical book. I suspect that will not be remedied anytime soon, considering the age of the publication. I still find it annoying.
Quality wise, this is an excellent value and easy to recommend to anyone who a good scary story.
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- Marie Franç
- 2008-03-15
Gray Matter (Stephen King) Narrateur : John Glover
Que pouvoir espérer de mieux, que d'écouter d'étranges et terribles histoires, dont chaque détail est à "Lui Seul" un univers entier à visiter, écouter, respirer ses frémissements, ses chuchotements, qui sont liquides et visqueux, ses appels au secours, ses prières et incantations qui ne sont que de simples gouttes d'eau au regard des bûchers ardents à éteindre, ses "chocs" humoristiques aux instants des "Dead Zone", quand notre coeur a atteint "son ultime marée basse" ! Vous êtes un Grand Magicien et "Maitre de Nos Illusions et Peurs" Monsieur Stephen THE King... et : Voici que pour cette fois, vous avez le privilège de vous draper dans "la voix-voie de votre maître", que dire de PLUS que ... "Thanks, Master John Glover", You are the only one to "Touch our spirit abyss and destroyed nightmare", with your slowly and sensual voice, "just between god and devil" ! Un Mystérieux et miraculeux mariage des âmes tourmentées et des splendeurs lumineuses des rédemptions certaines. Un Voyage en Enfer dont les souterrains sont illuminés de Roses Mystiques : telle "La Barrière d'Or du Ciel" (cf. "La Damoiselle Élue" Debussy/D'Annunzio), avec Toujours en contrepoint cette certitude si terrifiante des ultimes paroles de La Damnation de Faust :..."Et Dans les profondeurs des ténèbres, un mystère d'horreur s'accomplit".
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