Gary K Bibliophile’s Reviews > Night Shift > Status Update

I am the Doorway - this one was very short, but interesting. Felt like an episode of The Twilight Zone. Early sci-fi from SK - written in 1971. Sadly he was off in his optimistic prediction that we would land on Mars in 1979. 🚀 I do now understand the 1979 paperback cover I see a lot online - very cool 👁️👁️👁️

Night Surf - hmm - written in 1969 it’s a 9 pager about A2 and A6 (the latter called Captain Trips 🤧🦠) It seems like there are makings for a longer story… oh - 9 years later he did just that 😀

Graveyard Shift - R.O.U.S. - in the first 2 stories SK mentions ‘tenebrous’ 4 times… and rats… I think he’s channeling some Lovecraft. 🐀. Rats make a prominent appearance in his short story 1922 several years later. Another well done story 🪦

Jerusalem’s Lot - “The worm that doth corrupt." This is a great way to kick off the collection. A very dark period piece - set around 1850 w/ flashbacks back to the late 1700s. This seemed like the earliest period I recall SK writing for… and a quick google search seems to confirm that. It’s also a very early story for him and if I had read it not knowing it I would have been hard pressed to guess so 🪱