title: Night Shift
author:  Stephen King 
description: <br />A master storyteller. <i>Los Angeles Times</i><br /><br />Eerie. . . . Ought to chill the cockles of many a heart. <i>Chicago Tribune</i><br /><br />A master. . . . [King] will catch you in his web and reach you at an elemental level where there is no defense. <i>The Cincinnati Enquirer</i><br /><br />Stephen King has built a literary genre of putting ordinary people in the most terrifying situations. . . . hes the author who can always make the improbable so scary you'll feel compelled to check the locks on the front door. <i>The Boston Globe</i><br /><i></i><br />Peerless imagination. <i>The Observer</i> (London)
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  > > Also by Richard Bachman and published
  
  > > by Hodder Stoughton
  
  > > Thinner
  
  > > The Bachman Books
  
  > > By Stephen King
  
  > > Carrie
  
  > > 'Salem's Lot
  
  > > The Shining
  
  > > Night Shift
  
  > > The Stand
  
  > > Christine
  
  > > Pet Sematary
  
  > > It
  
  > > Misery
  
  > > The Tommyknockers
  
  > > The Dark Half
  
  > > The Stand: the Complete and Uncut Edition
  
  > > Four Past Midnight
  
  > > Needful Things
  
  > > Gerald's Game
  
  > > Dolores Claiborne
  
  > > Nightmares and Dreamscapes
  
  > > Insomnia
  
  > > Rose Madder
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  "Leaving on a Jet Plane," Words and Music by John Denver, Copyright
  
  © 1967 (Renewed) 1995, Cherry Lane Music Publishing Company, Inc.
  
  (ASCAP), International Copyright Secured. All rights Reserved. Reprinted
  
  by Permission of Cherry Lane Music Company.
  
  Copyright © 1996 by Richard Bachman
  
  First published in Great Britain in 1996
  
  by Hodder and