Gray Matter and Other Stories From Night Shift

And Other Stories from Night Shift

De: Stephen King

Narrado por: John Glover

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 dramatic unabridged production of 6 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.

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."

©1976 Stephen King (P)1995 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House, Inc.

Bad audio and short selection

I knew when I purchased it that this didn’t contain the whole book but I’m really annoyed. It cost a full credit but gave me less than three hours of content. Also, the audio on this is not good quality; sounded like the narrator was using an old-timey mic and could never get it to be very loud.

Loved it!

Great! Enjoyed from start to finish! Definitely recommend it! Good for relaxing at home or being on the go. Will listen again.

Has a Glitch

I loved the stories, but the audible has some spaces and or pauses that I feel Im losing sentences or info. Very annoying.
Also I thought it had all the short stories, didn't realize it only has a few stories.

Good stories, nice voice, odd pauses.

This was very enjoyable overall. There are a few weird pauses and hiccup-like blips at times, but it doesn't hinder the storytelling. I wish more stories were included in this instead of having Night Shift broken up into three volumes. John Glover's narration is well done overall.

Take a peek at where the best story teller in the world started out.

Amazing! You truly get to see the beginning of this amazing writers career.
As we all know Stephen King is a prolific detail driven artist. In these early stories you get to see all the creativity in a much more to the point fashion.

John Glover reads the stories as if this is all he wants to do.

My only negative critique is the sound quality. It sounds like there to much bass and yet hollow and old timey. Like listening to an old fashioned mono tape recorder. It was slightly distracting and if it was fixed, it would've made the whole experience perfectly pallet able. I tried adjusting my radio, but eventually just stuck it out with the regular settings.

Definitely worth it!!!

Great stories but

Audible file is of very bad sound quality, but despite that these are classic Stephen King stories.

Round 2 of King's Best

While Night Shift is one of Stephen King's best collections of short fiction, this collection is a little lop-sided with excellent drama but little true horror. While the gruesome and wonderful title story, "Gray Matter", and hard to forget "Battleground" are a strong foundation, wonderfully written but not very chilling stories like "The Woman In The Room" and "The Boogeyman" outweigh the light but effective "Strawberry Spring" and the slow-burner "I Know What You Need."

Wonderful!

Highly enjoyable and now I will listen to the third one because of course I bought all 3.

The chapter boundaries don’t align with the stories

New stories begin like 7/11 way into what Audible calls a “chapter”.

It’s such a easy thing to fix - I find this is a common problem among audible short stories collections.

vintage in the best way

equal parts scary and funny and beautifully written
also periodically nauseating. this mfer has it all!