有时候，他们会回来 (1978)

Night Shift

恐怖作品

作者: 斯蒂芬·金
首版: 1978 年
国家/地区: 美国
Open Library: 48 个版本

百科

《守夜》（英语：Night Shift）是美国畅销作家史蒂芬·金首部短篇小说集，共收录二十篇短篇故事，于1978年出版，1979年获提名轨迹奖及世界奇幻奖，1980年获得了炎魔奖。书中大部分的短篇故事都已经改编成电影或电视剧。华文地区早年曾将书名翻译为“玉米田的孩子”。

序言和引言

《守夜》是史蒂芬·金第一本写了序言的书。而序言由一名史蒂芬·金喜爱的作家约翰·D·麦唐诺所写。

以上文字摘自维基百科「有時候，他們會回來」（去掉了参考文献等尾部小节），按 CC BY-SA 4.0 使用，作者为维基百科的各位编者。

中文维基百科的条目比较短，下面附上英文维基百科的内容（英文原文）：

Night Shift is Stephen King's first collection of short stories, first published in 1978. In 1980, Night Shift won the Balrog Award for Best Collection, and in 1979 it was nominated as best collection for the Locus Award and the World Fantasy Award.

Details

The book was published on the heels of The Shining (1977 Doubleday) and is King's fifth published book (including Rage, which was published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman). Nine of the twenty stories had first appeared in issues of Cavalier Magazine from 1970 to 1975; others were originally published in Penthouse, Cosmopolitan, Gallery, Ubris, and Maine Magazine. The stories "Jerusalem's Lot", "Quitters, Inc.", "The Last Rung on the Ladder", and "The Woman in the Room" appeared for the first time in this collection.

King had wanted to cut "Gray Matter" in favor of his 1972 story "Suffer the Little Children", but deferred to editor Bill Thompson who chose to keep "Gray Matter" in the collection ("Suffer the Little Children" was ultimately collected in Nightmares & Dreamscapes in 1993).

Foreword and introduction

Night Shift is the first book for which King wrote a foreword. The introduction was written by one of King's favorite authors, John D. MacDonald. MacDonald writes that "Stephen King is a far, far better writer at thirty than I was at thirty, or at forty. I am entitled to hate him a little bit for this." He adds, "I will say that I do not give a diddly-whoop what Stephen King chooses as an area in which to write. The fact that he presently enjoys writing in the field of spooks and spells and slitherings in the cellar is to me the least interesting fact about the man anyone can relate", predicting that "Stephen King is not going to restrict himself to his present area of intense interest."

Deluxe edition

In 2020, a deluxe edition of Night Shift was published by Cemetery Dance Publications. The deluxe edition included two other short stories by King: "The Glass Floor" (1967) and "Weeds" (1976).

Film, television or theatrical adaptations

With the publication of Night Shift and the rise in King's popularity as a best-selling author, and with the success of Brian De Palma's motion picture adaptation of Carrie (1976), student film makers began submitting requests to King to adapt stories from the collection. King formed a policy he deemed the Dollar Deal, which allowed the students the permission to make an adaptation for $1.

In the 1980s, entrepreneurial film producer Milton Subotsky purchased the rights to six of the stories in this collection to produce feature films and a television anthology based on multiple stories. Although Subotsky was involved with several King adaptations (Cat's Eye, Maximum Overdrive, Sometimes They Come Back, The Lawnmower Man) the television series never happened due to conflicts with the networks' Standards and Practices.

The following film, television, and theatre adaptations are adapted from the stories in Night Shift: