A volte ritornano (Italian Edition)

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Night Shift is the first collection of short stories by Stephen King, first published in 1978. In 1980, Night Shift received the Balrog Award for Best Collection, and in 1979 it was nominated as best collection for the Locus Award and the World Fantasy Award. Many of King's most famous short stories were included in this collection. Creepshow (1982) · L'occhio del gatto (1985) · Unico indizio la luna piena (1985) · Brivido (anche regista, 1986) · Cimitero vivente (1989) · I sonnambuli (1992) · A Good Marriage (2014) · Cell (2016) Marejada nocturna: Relato que sirvió de inspiración para una de las novelas más conocidas de King. Apocalipsis. He notado que a muy pocas personas les gusta este relato, debo decir que a mí me gustó, Apocalipsis es mi lectura actual y no dejaba de pensar en el relato como una historia dentro de esa novela, para mí fue muy interesante sentir esa sensación.

Pet Sematary - Cimitero vivente (1989) · Pet Sematary 2 - Cimitero vivente 2 (1992) · Pet Sematary (2019) · Cimitero vivente: le origini (2023) That little show of paranoia should show you that I’m a bit of a masochist when it comes to horror. It should also indicate you that most of the stars given to this short story collection come from King’s talent to scare me shitless. From electronic appliances from hell to the torture of memories, these tales bring to your door a big bag of uncomfortable feelings and triggers for insomnia. Among the ones that impacted me the most are: La moglie di Jim Norman lo stava aspettando dalle due e, quando vide l'auto fermarsi di fronte allo stabile dove abitavano, scese di corsa per andargli incontro. Era andata a fare la spesa e aveva preparato un pranzetto per festeggiare: un paio di bistecche, una bottiglia di vino buono, un bel cespo di lattuga e altre piccole cose. A deserted town. A heavy snowstorm. Vampires lurking in the dark. Sounds like everyone would want to be right in the middle of this scenario, doesn't it?Originality might not be the most prominent factor of this short story, but it was executed quite nicely. I liked the main character and it was a satisfying short read. You may think that I was so frustrated after those first nine stories that I was tempted to give up on it? Well, yes, I certainly was. But I kept telling myself to continue, not to abandon this, to believe in the power of King's writing ... Meh. Not a bad story, but just kinda doesn't feel right in the context of this book. So far, my least favorite in this collection. Even his big radio/tape-player was hardly more than a nice-looking hunk of junk.« I'll borrow that quote from King's own story and apply it here to describe it. 'Hunk of junk' is actually pretty appropriate. I can't even explain what this story is about because it frustrated and bored me so much.

Los misterios del gusano: Mi relato favorito, sin duda. Aunque King desdibuja un poco su estilo para hacerle un pronunciado homenaje a Lovecraft, debo decir que le imprime algo que le da un gran dinamismo a esta historia, me encantó la ambientación descrita por King, el misterio que le imprime a cada página. Un relato que también sucede en Jerusalem's Lot, y que por la época, se nota que es una historia que pasa antes de lo acontecido en El misterio de Sale's Lot. I'll give a piece of advice to you: Don't read this story if you have a rat phobia. Don't read this story if you like your protagonists realistic and without weird changes in behaviour. And definitely don't read this story if you intend to enter a cave or a mill anytime soon. It might not be your wisest idea in those cases. A short story about a possessed industrial laundry steam press, of all things. King makes this one of the best stories in the collection! The mangler is campy and supernatural. The story comes to a head when the characters try to exorcise the machine. The ending you absolutely cannot predict. I like to imagine this starting out as a satire about what it is like to work in unsafe conditions... Except in this story, the unsafe conditions are supernatural and outside of human control, unlike real unsafe working conditions that are often due to pure human negligence. Beyond this, the story features some really good descriptions.

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Okay so a man buys flowers for his sweetheart. Only turns out there’s also this hammer murderer running about. Suspicious. Turns out our murderer thinks all women are this one woman named Norma that rejected him, so he gets murdery ever time he’s rejected by strange women that are like “umm sorry I’m not Norma?” During the holiday weekend of Fourth of July, in a mill, it’s offered to several employees to get an extra bonus for cleaning a very old basement that it hasn’t been cleaned for 12 years… Passano gli anni e Jim, il superstite, che ha relegato nelle nebbie della memoria quel tragico ricordo, è diventato insegnante di lettere in un liceo. Alcuni studenti della sua classe vengono uccisi misteriosamente e sostituiti da ragazzi che somigliano a quelli che lo aggredirono e uccisero il fratello.

A very good story with a lot of action, insight and interesting twists and turns. I would have liked to read a full-length novel of this with a more fleshed-out protagonist; the potential was clearly visible.

Scritto dalla prospettiva di un uomo oppresso dal rimorso e dispiaciuto dopo aver scoperto che la sorella si è suicidata. Racconta di un giorno, molto tempo fa, quando i due erano bambini, mentre giocavano nel fienile. Facevano un gioco in cui a turno si arrampicavano sulla cima di una scala molto alta, per poi lasciarsi cadere su un mucchio di fieno. Durante uno dei turni della sorella, la vecchia scala si ruppe improvvisamente, lasciando la sorella penzolante sull'ultimo piolo della scala. Tentò di ammucchiare abbastanza fieno da attutirne la caduta e salvarle la vita, e resta stupito della fede che lei ripone in lui. Racconta di come negli anni successivi lui l'abbia trascurata, e di quanto era sempre occupato per non badare ai suoi bisogni. La storia termina appena legge l'ultima sua lettera scritta due settimane prima di gettarsi da un palazzo; in quella lettera scopriva quanto disperatamente lei avesse bisogno che lui la salvasse ancora una volta. level of creepiness: 2/5 (μεταλλαγμενοι αρουραιοι..μπλιαχ.οχι και τοσο τρομακτικο.σαν να διαβαζα ανατριχιλες)