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488 pages.
First published: 1978. Contents: Jerusalem's lot -- Graveyard shift -- Night surf -- I am the doorway -- The mangler -- The boogeyman -- Gray matter -- Battleground -- Trucks -- Sometimes they come back -- Strawberry spring -- The ledge -- The lawnmower man -- Quitters, Inc. -- I know what you need -- Children of the corn -- The last rung on the ladder -- The man who loved flowers -- One for the road -- The woman in the room.
Summary: Twenty stories of horror and nightmarish fantasy transform everyday situations into experiences of compelling terror in the worlds of the living, the dying, and the nonliving.