Night Shift Trivia

1. "The taller, the better. Healthy soil, that's what you got there, by Circe. That's what I always say."

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Answer: The Lawnmower Man

This was said by the servant of the god, Pan. He was hired to cut the grass, but he ended up doing something much different. The movie by the same name was so different from the story that King filed a lawsuit to remove his name from the title, and he won.

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Answer: Chest

Arthur was an astronaut who traveled to Venus and picked up something on his way back in "I Am the Doorway". Several years later the eyes appeared on his fingers. The alien presence inside him was evil and made him kill people, so he burned his hands off. The story ends with Arthur preparing to commit suicide as a new set of eyes had appeared in a circle on his chest.

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Answer: Children Of The Corn

Vicky says this to Burt, after they hit the poor boy with their car. They are on their way to Gatlin, to report it to the police, with his body in the trunk.

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Answer: Jerusalem's Lot

The setting for this story is, most likely, the small town that will evetually become the ill-fated village of 'Salem's Lot, the focus of one of King's earlier works.

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Answer: The Ledge

Cressner says this to his victim in "The Ledge". He makes him walk around the pent house, on a ledge about 12 inches wide. Very good story, even made into part of the movie "Cat's Eye".

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Answer: Captain Trips

Also featured in "The Stand", Captain Trips, or A6, or 'The Superflu', appears to have spread through the population of the world in "Night Surf" as a group of friends spend a late evening on the beach enjoying each other's company. While they try to bide their time in the sand as the surf rushes in and out, Bernie reflects on the start of their evening, which involved sacrificing a man to the surf, placing him on a pyre when they realized he was infected in an attempt at mercy. While the group tries to live normally, believing themselves to be immune via the A2 virus, one of them is sick with A6, and it may just be a matter of time before they're all as dead as the rest of the world.

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Answer: His wife received electroshock

"Quitters, Inc." is about a very effective treatment program for quitting smoking. Morrison, the main character, would be under constant supervision, and if he was caught smoking, his wife would be taken and receive "electroshock therapy", meaning she wouldn't quite be electrocuted, but it would be very painful. For further offenses, the penalties would increase, leading to the breaking of his son's arms and, eventually, Morrision's death. Morrison only slipped once, and the treatment was very successful, as he quit completely.

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Answer: Venus

This story is recounted out of order through the narration of Arthur, a former astronaut who flew to Venus in a mission to analyze the planet from orbit. After seeing the terrifying planet with his very eyes (referred to in a description as "a skull picked clean and covered in clouds"), he returned to Earth in a complicated reentry that claimed the life of his colleague and left him crippled. After settling into his new life, things seemed to get concerning; a terrible itch in his hands started to spread to the point where he began seeing monstrous things in his flesh-- eyes with evil intent and powers beyond his capability to control. After the deaths of a boy near his home and his friend, Richard, he set his hands on fire to quell their urges, and everything was fine until seven years later. The story is a recounting of events, but also a final word as he plans to commit suicide due to the eyes that have appeared on his chest.

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Answer: The Boogeyman

This story is most likely inspired by the story by H.P. Lovecraft, entitled "The Whisperer in the Darkness."

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Answer: Rats

When Charles Boone inherited his cousin's house in "Jerusalem's Lot", he heard loud noises in the walls that he thought were rats. But as he unraveled the mysteries of the house, the nearby deserted village of Jerusalem's Lot, and his own family, he found out that the noises in the walls weren't rats, but something much worse! Now, could the location of this story be the same as Stephen King's "'Salem's Lot?" It makes one wonder!

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Answer: Jerusalem's Lot

Mrs. Cloris tells this to Charles, when he asks about "Jerusalem's Lot". A small evil town, burried deep in the woods. He wants to know about its history.

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Answer: Battleground

This story was featured in the TNT miniseries, "Nightmares and Dreamscapes." It was the only segment that contained no dialogue.

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Answer: Quitters, Inc.

Donatti says this to Mr. Morrison, after showing him the bunny behind the glass jump around, from the electrical current. He threatens to do that to his wife and son, unless he sticks with it and quits smoking. This story was also part of the movie "Cat's Eye".

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Answer: The Ledge

This story was one of the sequences in Stephen King's movie, "Cat's Eye."

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Answer: 4th of July

"Graveyard Shift" tells the story of huge mutant rats breeding in the basement of an industrial mill in Maine. A special crew was retained to work on the week of the 4th of July, their job being to clean out the basement. Instead they found rats, lots of them. A movie loosely based on this story came out in 1990, also titled "Graveyard Shift".

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Answer: Graveyard Shift

Warwick says this to Hall, regarding the Fourth of July lay off week. He wants Hall to put in some overtime. It didn't seem that big a deal, until Hall actually met the five foot rats.

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Answer: Quitter's Inc.

This story is also a part of the movie, "Cat's Eye."

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Answer: Bible

"One for the Road" picks up after the town of 'Salem's Lot had been burned and deserted. A city man stumbled into a bar during a snowstorm saying that this car had broken down in a nearby town, and his wife and daughter were still there. The locals figured out that he was talking about 'Salem's Lot, the town overrun by vampires, and two old-timers, Booth and Tookey, went to help him. But they arrived too late, and the man was turned into a vampire by his wife. Booth happened to see the little girl, and she almost hypnotized him into being bitten, but Tookey saved him by throwing his Bible at the girl.

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Answer: I Am the Doorway

King's wide readings of books by Ray Bradbury probably helped create this interplanetary story.

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Answer: Morse code

Trapped in a rest stop diner, a group of survivors take shelter while half a dozen large trucks circle the building, driverless, waiting to kill the humans that remain. Although the reasons why vehicles have become sentient is left unexplained, it's clear that the situation is life-or-death; anyone who goes outside is at risk of being hit and killed. Some people rush outside in an attempt to flee, but they don't get far; the trucks are too fast. While the survivors plot out their survival, the power goes out. There are opportunities to risk it for water from the unattached bathrooms next to the diner, but the chances slim when more trucks show up and a bulldozer threatens to destroy the building. When the trucks start to communicate in morse code to indicate that they need refuelling, the group makes one last-ditch effort to evade a life of slavery...but it's no use. As the story comes to a close, the three remaining survivors realize that they simply have to wait out their time, pumping gas into the vehicles as they line up down the road.

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Answer: Children of the Corn

A movie of this story was released in 1984, followed by six less-than-influential sequels.

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Answer: Gray Matter

Henry tells Bertie the story the kid told him, and they both believe him. Something was wrong with the kid's dad. Something that had to do with the beer he drank, cheap warm beer.

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Answer: The Mangler

This story was adapted into three movies, with only the first one closely resembling the original text. Stephen King worked at an industrial laundromat when he was younger, which most likely contributed to the main setting of the tale.

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Answer: Brain convulsion

"The Boogeyman" is one of the scariest stories in Stephen King's "Night Shift" collection. Billings was a man with three children, and the boogeyman killed them all. Crib death was the medical diagnosis for his first child, brain convulsion for his second, and a broken neck after falling out of his crib for his third child. Billings went to a psychiatrist to tell his story, but the psychiatrist was actually the boogeyman come to finish him off! This story is scary because who hasn't been scared of the boogeyman when they were kids? These stories are only a sampling of "Night Shift". It's a great read!

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Answer: Night Surf

Bernie says this to Needles, trying to convince him that it might just be the Hong Kong flu, not A6, and that he might be okay. This story takes place after the flu that killed so many people in "The Stand".

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Answer: Springheel Jack

The narrator chronicles the events that occurred when he attended New Sharon College. During one year there, the area experienced a 'strawberry spring', a warming period near the end of winter that would be followed by a severe winter blast. During that time, occurring perhaps once a decade, the region would be warm, wet, and foggy. It was during this particular season that the narrator believed something was lurking out in the shadows in the fog. Sure enough, a number of girls on campus were killed on these nights though the police could never figure out who did it despite a number of leads. Eight years later, the narrator is afraid to open the trunk of his car. Another strawberry spring has occurred and he can't remember how he made it home in the fog. A local girl is missing.

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Answer: Graveyard Shift

In the film version of the story, the mill where the characters work at is named "Bachman Mills," taken from King's pseudonym, Richard Bachman.

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Answer: Trucks

Two film adaptations were inspired by this story, one with the same name, and one entitled "Maximum Overdrive."

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Answer: Pan

When Harold Parkette's lawn starts to get just a bit out of hand he realizes that, since his former gardener is no longer offering services, he needs to find a replacement. He contacts a new gardener via a classified ad for 'Pastoral Greenery' and when the odd man arrives at his door to begin the job, he thinks little of it and heads off for a rest. When he later checks on the gardener, an unseemly sight waits for him-- the lawnmower is running on its own, running over living creatures; the gardener, naked, crawls on his hands and knees eating the mowed lawn. Harold calls the police, but the gardener, claiming to be brought forth by the God of the wild, Pan, kills him with his lawnmower. The police arrive only to find the remains.

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