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by Frank Showalter

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Night Shift

B: 4 stars (out of 5)
1978 | Collection
Reviewed May 14, 2012

Though most of tales are EC Comics style setups for twist endings, they’re well executed, and the others such as the opening “Jerusalem’s Lot”, which borrows from Bram Stoker’s The Lair of the White Worm, and the closing, “The Woman in the Room”, about a man’s struggle to deal with his cancer-ridden mother’s slow death, are outstanding, the latter especially so given that we now know that it’s essentially an autobiographical story.

Reading History

  • 2012
    May
    14
    Mon
    Paperback ( New American Library / Signet, 1986 )
    Read over 2 Days
    1. 13 May 2012
      70%
       
    2. 14 May 2012
      Finished