Horror Book # 26 - Night Shift by Stephen King

Despite having read several Stephen King books I had somehow never read any of his short story collections. Night Shift is his first collection of stories and for the most part the stories are all scary and pretty varied. The book starts out strong with Jerusalem's Lot which is a Lovecraftian story about a cult of vampires. After that the rest of the first half of the book is good but not great. Three of the stories are about inanimate objects coming  to life (there are killer trucks, killer army figures and a killer dry cleaning machine). The second half is much stronger though since most of the stories don't have supernatural elements. This includes The Ledge about a man forced out on a building's ledge; Quitters, Inc. about a company with a novel way to get people to quit smoking; and Children of the Corn about weird kids in corn fields. Overall the collection was scary and probably caused a few nightmares. The short story format suits King well since it doesn't all him to go on and on like he sometimes does. I'll give it an A-.