Night Shift is the first collection of short stories by Stephen King, first published in 1978. In 1980, Night Shift received the Balrog Award for Best Collection, and in 1979 it was nominated as best collection for the Locus Award and the World Fantasy Award. Many of King's most famous short stories were included in this collection.
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Stories collected
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The book was published on the heels of The Shining (1977 Doubleday) and was King's fifth published book (including Rage, which was published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman). Nine of the twenty short stories in the book had first appeared in various issues of Cavalier Magazine from 1970-1975; others were originally published in Penthouse, Cosmopolitan, Gallery, Ubris, and Maine Magazine. The stories "Jerusalem's Lot", "Quitters Inc.", "The Last Rung on the Ladder", and "The Woman in the Room" appeared for the first time in this collection.
Foreword and introduction
Night Shift is the first book for which King wrote a foreword. The introduction was written by one of King's favorite authors, John D. MacDonald.
Film, television or theatrical adaptations
With the publication of Night Shift and the rise in King's popularity as a best-selling author, also with the success of Brian De Palma's motion picture adaptation of Carrie (1976), student film and theatre makers began to submit requests to King to make adaptations of the stories that appeared in the collection. King formed a policy he deemed the Dollar Deal, which allowed the students the permission to make an adaptation for the consideration of just $1.
In the 1980s, entrepreneurial film producer Milton Subotsky purchased the rights to six of the stories in this collection with the intention to produce feature films and a television anthology based on multiple stories. Although Subotsky was involved with several King adaptations (Cat's Eye, Maximum Overdrive, Sometimes They Come Back, The Lawnmower Man) the television series never came to fruition due to conflicts with the networks' Standards and Practices.
The following is a list of film, television or theatre adaptations made from the stories collected in Night Shift:
Feature film adaptations
- Children of the Corn (1984) Hal Roach Studios, Inc., directed by Fritz Kiersch
- Cat's Eye (1985) Dino De Laurentiis Productions/MGM/UA directed by Lewis Teague (featured adaptations of "Quitters Inc." and "The Ledge")
- Maximum Overdrive (based on "Trucks") (1986) De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) directed by Stephen King
- Graveyard Shift (1990) Paramount Pictures directed by Ralph S. Singleton
- The Lawnmower Man (title only) (1992) New Line Cinema directed by Brett Leonard
- The Mangler (1995) New Line Cinema directed by Tobe Hooper
Television adaptations
- Sometimes They Come Back (1991) Vidmark Entertainment directed by Tom McLoughlin, originally attempted to be adapted into Cat's Eye.
- Trucks (1997) USA Pictures directed by Chris Thomson
- Battleground (2006) Turner Network Television mini-series Nightmares & Dreamscapes
- Children of the Corn (2009) a Syfy production
Dollar baby adaptations (shorts)
- The Boogyman (1982) directed by Jeff Schiro
- Disciples of the Crow (based on "Children of the Corn") (1983) directed by John Woodward
- The Woman in the Room (1983) directed by Frank Darabont
- The Last Rung on the Ladder (1987) directed by James Cole and Daniel Thron
- The Lawnmower Man (1987) directed by Jim Gonis
- Night Surf (2001) directed by Peter Sullivan
- Strawberry Spring (2001) directed by Doveed Linder
- I Know What You Need (2004) directed by Shawn S. Lealos
- La Femme Dans la Chambre (The Woman in the Room) (2005) directed by Damien Maric
- The Boogeyman (Play) (2005) by Graham Rees (60 minutes)
See also
- Stephen King short fiction bibliography
- Dollar Baby
References
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