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Stephen King: The Shining / 'Salem's Lot / Night Shift / Carrie (Hardcover, 1981, Octopus/Heinemann) 4 stars

The Shining

This masterpiece of modern horror builds relentlessly to an absolutely chilling and horrifying …

Review of "The Shining / 'Salem's Lot / Night Shift / Carrie" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Stories are rated 1-4:

1 I would recommend avoid reading this
2 Not great
3 I enjoyed it. I would casually recommend a king or horror fan read this.
4 I would recommend everyone read this.

Boogyman [4]

A shithead father recounts the loss of his three children to a bogeyman to a psychiatrist. All is not as it seems.

I know what you want [3]

A woman finds a man who can provide what ever she wants. She doesn't.

Strawberry Spring [3]

A man recounts the year his college was terrorized by a murderer. No supernatural elements.

Gray Matter [2]

A village man drinks a bad bear

The woman in the room [2]

A son watches his mother die. No supernatural elements. Just a sad story of despair.

Battleground [1]

An assassin gets his just desserts in a deeply unsatisfying story

Graveyard shift [3]

A mill has rat problems. A man doesn’t like his boss. Problem solved.

The man who loved flowers [1]

A young lad has romantic difficulties. No supernatural elements.

The Last Rung on the Ladder [3]

A man recounts a story of how he saved his sister from falling from a ladder but didn't save her later. There are no supernatural element in this story.

Night Surf [1]

The survivors of a deadly civilization ending flue outbreak do their thing.

Jerusalem's Lot [4]

The resident of a family estate recounts his family history, the odd abandoned neighbouring village and numerous disturbances. Set in the 1850s. Prequl to Salems Lot.

Lawnmower Man [1]

Pan takes care of the lawns. And takes care of Harold.

Sometimes they come back [4]

A teacher is visited by demons from his past

Quitters incorporated [4]

A man struggles to quit smoking. Stand out in the book. Only story I can recall from 20 years ago.

The ledge [4 ]

A tennis instructor fucks a mobsters wife. The mobster returns the favour.

The Mangler [4]

An industrial steam iron goes bad. This story is terrifying.

One for the road [4]

On a winters night an out of town we stumbles into a bar, his wife and child near Salem’s lot. Sequal to Salems Lot.

I am the doorway [2]

sci-fi. A former astronaut to Venus struggles with the strange changes happening to his hands

Trucks 1

Trucks take over the world Did this inspire Pixar’s cars? The idea is retarded. Its well written and between Christine and the mangler he clear can do Possessed machines but the concept is a little goofy.

Children of the corn [3]

I always hate when the protagonist makes dumb decisions and in this story of a couple finding themselves in a strange small rural town in Nebraska I am overwhelmed by their magnitude.