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Gray Matter and Other Stories From Night Shift

And Other Stories from Night Shift

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Gray Matter and Other Stories From Night Shift

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: John Glover
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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."

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

Loved it!

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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.

Has a Glitch

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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.

Bad audio and short selection

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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.

Good stories, nice voice, odd pauses.

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Audio quality was weirdly bad. The recording sounded a lot worse than the other stories.

Audio quality

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Good mix of short stories and some slight nods to his connected universe - definitely recommend

Great quick listen

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The thought of Grey Matter will keep me awake for weeks, and it's reason to stop drinking beer.

Frightening

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This is a collection of older short stories, the last story ended abruptly,, I feel like I bought some bargain basement audiobook

Book ended mid story

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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!!!

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

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

Great stories but

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