Stephen King’s Night Shift is published in 1978. The collection of short stories includes unpublished and the first published stories of King in magazines through the late 1960s and 1970s. Several of the stories were later made into movies including Children of the Corn, The Lawnmower Man and Trucks.
This Day in Halloween: Stephen King’s "Night Shift" is published in 1978. / Illustration by Kimberly Cortez.