![]() Sometimes she gets her degree, and sometimes she gets date-raped by frat boys.Īt this point, many of the Night Shift stories have been faithfully adapted into independent short films. The author once joked that having one of your stories adapted to the screen feels like sending your daughter off to college. For the most part, those adaptations have been out of King’s hands. In comparison, several of the other stories in this collection evolved (or devolved) into films. ![]() ![]() “The Boogeyman,” first published in 1973, is the forerunner of It. “Night Surf,” first published in 1974, reads like a prologue to The Stand. “Jerusalem’s Lot,” written in 1967 as a college term paper, eventually became Salem’s Lot. ![]() Several of the short stories in Night Shift proved to be the seeds of his more famous novels. One of the things I realized while re-reading Stephen King’s Night Shift collection is that the author seems to write short stories as a way of capturing new, and potentially fleeting, ideas. ![]()
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