The Lawnmower Man and Other Stories From Night Shift

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Playing upon our most primal fears, Stephen King draws us into his sinister world - a place where sane men and women see their lives shattered, their realities distorted and destroyed. Now, listeners can probe even deeper into the mind of the master storyteller of the macabre, with this third unabridged production of 5 classic short stories, from King's best selling collection, Night Shift.

Harold Parkette disposes of his lawnmower after his neighbor's cat dies a gruesome death. But the "Lawnmower Man" he hires to do the job proves more than Harold bargained for. A police officer begins to suspect that a series of grisly industrial accidents is no coincidence in "The Mangler." At "Quitter's Inc." a smoker soon discovers that they'll truly stop at nothing to make sure their customers kick the habit. A betrayed husband goes out on "The Ledge" when he takes vengeance into his own hands. And in "Sometimes They Come Back," the concept of alumni is given new meaning when a high school teacher, haunted by the past, is assigned 3 new students who seem eerily familiar.

©1976 Stephen King (P)1995 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House, Inc.

One of my Favorite King collections

I never get tired of listening to these chilling tales. The eerie sound design & excellent narration from John Glover always draws me in

Awesome!!! See the where the worlds greatest story teller started out.

Amazing in every way. The stories are excellent. After reading much Stephen King you realize how much he's restraining himself from going off into deep detail that his long stories call for.

John Glover reads the stories as if they're among his favorites. Almost as if he's not reading at all.

On "Gray matter and other stories from Night Shift", the audio was not good and difficult to deal with. On THIS book the audio is crisp and perfect. Sounds great and therefore not an issue at all. Not sure what was up with the other.

Great collection of short stories.

Would you consider the audio edition of The Lawnmower Man and Other Stories From Night Shift to be better than the print version?

Yes. I enjoyed the different voices of the characters. The narrator did an excellent job of expressing the emotions of the characters.

What did you like best about this story?

I just like Stephen King.

What does John Glover bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The voices of the characters.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No.

Any additional comments?

Classic Stephen King

Great!

These were all "bangers" lol. The Lawnmower Man is awesome. The Ledge is my favorite of the 5 included stories. The narrator does a great job. I'm glad I listened to this.

Wonderful

The best of Stephen King's short story compilations. My mother had a mangler long before I read this book but I still feared it.

night shift

Ok early King. stories in this batch have all been turned to movies or shorts in movie collections. All are better as stories for sure! Esp The Lawnmower Man! Where the hell did they get the movie that included retardation and virtual reality out of this short, short story? I really enjoyed the Lawnmower Man story here pretty strange and wonderful. the rest were just OK, including pretty decent performance of mangler with machine sounds and music.

Enjoy the SK Classic Shorts Again in Audio!

I loved these short stories when I was a teen and have had a wonderful time revisiting them again on audio! Great Narration!

pretty wild stories

loved it, totally unique and out of this world. wish it was only longer. hopefully they will someday make movies from them.

Great, creepy stories from the master!

It’s been a long time since I read these. Wanted them all to be longer; that’s my only complaint.

Lawnmower man

I’ve always enjoyed Stephen King‘s writings and the gentleman who read these writings did an outstanding job. He has read other books before, but this one was one of my favorites.