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Apr 03, 2020 Peter rated it it was amazing

Phenomenal story here! Jim Norman is haunted by nightmares since his brother Wayne was knifed by a gang of three youth. Now sixteen years later, three hoods he identifies at kickoff glance as the aforementioned that killed his brother are back. In his grade. What do they want? How can Jim go rid of those haunts from the past? Incredibly compelling and very creepy tale. The story reads live a picture show, is straight forwards and to the betoken. No other writer can practice a story like that. Admittedly recommended, a highligh Astounding story hither! Jim Norman is haunted by nightmares since his brother Wayne was knifed by a gang of 3 youth. Now xvi years after, iii hoods he identifies at outset glance every bit the same that killed his blood brother are back. In his class. What practise they want? How can Jim get rid of those haunts from the past? Incredibly compelling and very creepy tale. The story reads live a flick, is straight forward and to the bespeak. No other author tin practice a story like that. Absolutely recommended, a highlight! ...more

Jun 26, 2019 Paula rated information technology it was amazing

Jim Norman is starting his new instruction job at a high school where he finds himself confronted by ghosts from his past. This spooky picayune story had a unique premise and some great storytelling. It's a quick and easy read that completely held my involvement waiting to see what was going to happen next. A really practiced 1. Jim Norman is starting his new teaching job at a loftier school where he finds himself confronted past ghosts from his past. This chilling little story had a unique premise and some great storytelling. Information technology'south a quick and easy read that completely held my interest waiting to encounter what was going to happen adjacent. A really good i. ...more

October xi, 2019 J.K. Grice rated it it was amazing

This is ane of my favorite Stephen King stories, and I remember the picture accommodation is excellent every bit well. Tim Matheson gives a great performance as Mr. Norman, the instructor beleaguered by the demons and ghosts of his past. The hot-rodding bad boys are spot on likewise! Dearest that wicked '55 Chevy. SOMETIMES THEY COME Back is a smart, scary movie I lookout man at least one time every fall. This is 1 of my favorite Stephen King stories, and I call up the film adaptation is fantabulous as well. Tim Matheson gives a not bad functioning equally Mr. Norman, the teacher beleaguered past the demons and ghosts of his past. The hot-rodding bad boys are spot on too! Love that wicked '55 Chevy. SOMETIMES THEY Come up BACK is a smart, scary movie I watch at least once every fall. ...more

My first time reading whatsoever of Stephen King'southward
A short novel and I actually enjoyed it although I felt lost at some points but nevertheless enjoyed it

I actually demand to know if at that place is something wrong with me because I just didn't get that scared .. Perhaps worried or something merely diffidently not scared at all.

By the stop of this story it felt similar Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman's Applied Magic

The clarification of all the characters in this story was so good that it fabricated me able to imagine every single

My starting time fourth dimension reading any of Stephen Male monarch's
A short novel and I actually enjoyed it although I felt lost at some points simply notwithstanding enjoyed information technology

I really demand to know if there is something wrong with me considering I just didn't get that scared .. Maybe worried or something just diffidently not scared at all.

By the end of this story it felt similar Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman's Practical Magic

The description of all the characters in this story was and then good that it made me able to imagine every unmarried one of them.

The matter that made me a little bit scared was that while reading and focusing that lights in my room became unstable all of a sudden :D

I always love reading the English novels or story with vox and non so loud only the only part that I really couldn't read out loud was the part when Norman was trying to summon Wayne his blood brother. It felt like all the souls and the ghosts in the world will appear at that moment.

The merely thing I wished was different is the ending .. It was so quickly that it felt similar King was trying to get rid of those dead guys before they get him.

But all in all I loved information technology and had fun reading it.
I really can't expect to read more than of Stephen Rex'southward but with more than hope that Information technology will be more scary to me next time.

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This story makes me think of the classroom my 10th grade parenting class was held in. The room was tucked away at the end of the oldest hallway in my high school. Built in the 1940s or 1950s, that hallway was cramped and out of date and falling apart. Thanks to the continual cuts in Alabama's education fund, etc., the hallway (which was sandwiched betwixt two newer additions) had never really been updated, and certainly had a mid-century vibe. The room my parenting class was held in was very sp This story makes me think of the classroom my tenth class parenting class was held in. The room was tucked away at the stop of the oldest hallway in my loftier schoolhouse. Built in the 1940s or 1950s, that hallway was cramped and out of date and falling apart. Thank you to the continual cuts in Alabama's education fund, etc., the hallway (which was sandwiched betwixt two newer additions) had never really been updated, and certainly had a mid-century vibe. The room my parenting class was held in was very spacious and . . . well, hella dated. One walked in the door off the hallway and came to a smaller hallway. Turning right led to a small mock family room, which was almost never used (and decked out in '80s pastels). Turning left led to the main classroom, which was used for all abode economical courses. There were stoves and fridges, and long rows of sewing machines. The instructor, an sometime grump on the verge of retirement (and she probably counted down the days, that hateful bag), even used a typewriter to make up our tests. Talk about quant!

Anywho, this story reminds me of that classroom: the room in which the heating ducts rumbled in the wintertime and the windows would leak during large rain events. I was there late i evening for some reason or some other, with friends (we were there for something related to Castilian club, I remember, and we were wandering the halls). We went into the dwelling ec. room and quickly left. Information technology was just so creepy! I can't really describe it. The final scene of this story reminds me of that night.

I've always liked this story. I think of it equally the leap pad for ideas Rex would utilize again afterwards, specifically evil and/or bullies from childhood showing up again — against all odds and sanity — in machismo. See It, The Library Policeman, et cetera. For that reason solitary, I think this story is very absurd. Published in the mid-70s, this tale is . . . well, kind of dated. But I like it. As I've mentioned in several reviews, I am lover of all things '70s, and that includes dated stories of that era. They have such charm.

I don't know if I would say this story is scary . . . just it is certainly creepy. I feel the ending is a piffling lackluster (hence my docking a star), simply the rest is pretty much stellar.

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"That Night he had the dream again.
The dream was e'er cruelly slow. At that place was fourth dimension to see and feel everything. And there was the added horror of reliving events in that location were moving toward a known decision, as helpless as a human strapped into a car going over a cliff."

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Hello SPOOKTOBER!!

fulfilling my shortie Spooktober claiming to read one spooky curt story a solar day.

Day ane: The Magic Shop by H.K. Wells
Day ii: Everything's Fine past Matthew Pridham
Day three: It Came From Hell and Smashed the Angels by Gregor Xane

four.v stars

When I was in uncomplicated school, this short story was the footing for a actually bad made for TV movie that I watched all the time when I was younger. And information technology also provided me with my starting time ever Stephen Male monarch feel. I think I watched it for the f

HELLO SPOOKTOBER!!

fulfilling my shortie Spooktober challenge to read one spooky brusque story a day.

Day one: The Magic Store by H.G. Wells
Day two: Everything'southward Fine past Matthew Pridham
Day three: It Came From Hell and Smashed the Angels past Gregor Xane

iv.5 stars

When I was in elementary school, this curt story was the basis for a really bad fabricated for TV movie that I watched all the time when I was younger. And it also provided me with my get-go ever Stephen Rex experience. I retrieve I watched it for the first time in quaternary class before the proper noun Stephen Male monarch fifty-fifty registered with me. And when I got older and I realized how dandy Uncle Stevie was, the collection this story is in, Night Shift, became one of the first King books I ever bought with my own coin, probably sometime in similar seventh grade or then and the second Rex book I'd e'er read. The flick, even as terrible as I now know it to be, enthralled me so much as a child, I know I picked up the collection but to read this story on many occasions, and I've probably read it a dozen times at to the lowest degree. This is my first reading of it in probably 15 years (how can I really be that old?) and I have to say, it still didn't disappoint. Nevertheless one of my favorite King stories.

Jim Norman is a newly hired English instructor that has overcome a lot of trauma in his past to become to where he is today. His older blood brother Wayne was murdered by hot rod driving, leather jacket wearing, practiced for nil street thugs when they were both children, and Jim witnessed it. He has had nightmares always since and has not talked almost it with anyone, including his married woman Sally. When kids in his remedial 7th period English class brainstorm dying unexpectedly, and and then being replaced with these same thugs, the same historic period equally he remembers them, Jim knows that he must at present take matters into his own hands earlier they tin finish what they started sixteen years ago. The problem is, he can't say anything to anyone without sounding nuts.

Male monarch writes tension very well and this story is dripping with it. The reader actually does get a sense of danger from these characters and it is delightfully creeptastic. It is nigh repayment of debts and overcoming trauma. You tin can tell it is an earlier King work because the writing does lack a little polish and flair, but the story is classic King. I deducted half a star for the ending which I thought was merely the least bit underwhelming, but overall, a great Spooktober read.

Booksource: Night Shift past Stephen Male monarch, ain.

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A scary petty story. I remember watching the movie (or a few of them) every bit a child. I like the story, very creepy, I just kept saying to my self, "well that's just not off-white." Every bit if things in a scary story would ever exist off-white. A scary little story. I call back watching the movie (or a few of them) as a kid. I like the story, very creepy, I merely kept saying to my self, "well that's just not fair." As if things in a scary story would ever be fair. ...more

Not very special, ane of his first novellas.

This one is okay, but non a favorite. In the commencement, there is mystery about the event that has plagued Jim with nightmares: the murder of his brother. And the middle of the story is fifty-fifty more compelling with the arrival of some questionable new students. It's the end of the story that fell apartment for me and this has everything to practice with how Jim handles the combination of his past trauma with these new students. It'southward a squeamish plenty story, but not one of my favorites from this drove.

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This one is okay, but not a favorite. In the beginning, there is mystery about the consequence that has plagued Jim with nightmares: the murder of his brother. And the middle of the story is even more compelling with the inflow of some questionable new students. It's the end of the story that fell flat for me and this has everything to do with how Jim handles the combination of his past trauma with these new students. It'southward a nice enough story, but not one of my favorites from this collection.

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I really enjoyed this short story! Information technology was a solid spooky storyline. Plus the twist at the end is magic.

Sep 07, 2013 Alshia Moyez rated it it was astonishing

This was a short story taken from (my all time favorite by King) NIGHT SHIFT. The story wasn't complex, but it was interesting and kept me turning those pages. In retrospect though, I never could really relate to the chief character-Jim Norman. Information technology's like, there was zilch well-nigh him that I could really hold onto to bring me closer to him or encounter things through his eyes. Actually, I didn't really like Jim Norman at all, and found myself cheering for the villains in this. I got behind the high sch This was a brusk story taken from (my all fourth dimension favorite by King) Nighttime SHIFT. The story wasn't complex, but it was interesting and kept me turning those pages. In hindsight though, I never could really relate to the main character-Jim Norman. It's like, at that place was nothing virtually him that I could actually concord onto to bring me closer to him or see things through his eyes. Really, I didn't really like Jim Norman at all, and found myself cheering for the villains in this. I got behind the high school bully, plus another kids- all of whom were sideline characters. I did love Norman's dead blood brother, Wayne, though, and he was hardly even in this story save for a few scenes leading upwardly to his expiry, and one major scene where he came dorsum (or DID he? Ha ha).

Anyway, this is a short, enjoyable little horror story I'm sure you volition love. Enjoy.

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Jul 23, 2018 James rated it really liked information technology

A very practiced book, incredibly tense. I call up the ending was lacking in something. I plant the story of coming face to face with your brothers killers at school rather interesting and a very skillful story line and plot. However, past the cease it didn't seem like what it was meant to be. Hence, I docked a star from the story. Deeply intriguing and exceptionally well written. A very good volume, incredibly tense. I think the ending was defective in something. I establish the story of coming face to face with your brothers killers at school rather interesting and a very skilful story line and plot. However, past the terminate it didn't seem similar what it was meant to be. Hence, I docked a star from the story. Deeply intriguing and uncommonly well written. ...more

Warning: When you read this, don't turn off y'all lights. This one sure is creepy! Plus, information technology's kind of realistic. I know there's already a picture show for this, but even without that... my imagination got the best of me. >.< Warning: When you read this, don't turn off you lot lights. This one certain is creepy! Plus, it'due south kind of realistic. I know in that location'southward already a movie for this, but fifty-fifty without that... my imagination got the all-time of me. >.< ...more

Apr 29, 2014 Shawn rated information technology liked it

I experience this should have been a full length novel. It was a skilful idea, but the author needed more time for character development, and I really didn't like the ending at all. I feel this should accept been a total length novel. It was a practiced thought, but the author needed more fourth dimension for character development, and I really didn't like the ending at all. ...more than

King breaks the string of directly-upward stinkers with a moderately interesting, but poorly executed story about a man haunted past the death of his blood brother. In 1957, nine-year-old Jim and twelve-twelvemonth-old Wayne are walking home from the library when Wayne is stabbed past a trio of greasers. Fast forward to 1974 and Jim is a high-school English teacher. When one of his students is killed in a striking-and-run, the new pupil that takes their place is one of his blood brother's killers.

Jim thinks he must be going

Rex breaks the cord of straight-up stinkers with a moderately interesting, but poorly executed story about a homo haunted by the death of his brother. In 1957, ix-year-old Jim and twelve-twelvemonth-onetime Wayne are walking abode from the library when Wayne is stabbed by a trio of greasers. Fast forrad to 1974 and Jim is a high-school English language instructor. When one of his students is killed in a hit-and-run, the new student that takes their place is one of his brother's killers.

Jim thinks he must be going insane—which probably would have been a better storyline—but no, ghosts from the past take come to haunt Jim as well. The only solution is to conjure a demon…

While the cease of Sometimes They Come Back leaves much to be desired, at that place's something to be said for the cautionary tale of utilizing evil to practice your bidding. Unfortunately, King introduces and ends this idea too rapidly, leaving readers with almost nothing to remember about.

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Aug 16, 2018 Noelle rated it it was amazing

Excellent terrifying curt story, but there were actually some parts in the narrative which fabricated me wonder if he (Jim Norman) had any responsibility in first conjuring upwards the demons. Sure hints actually were curious.

Aug 04, 2021 Ben rated information technology actually liked it

Short story 10 in King's Night Shift.

This one took awhile to come together for me. The first half or so takes its time providing the context. While all the tension is held off a bit. Honestly, it was just the ending that brought my satisfaction with the story upwardly with a squeamish conclusion in multiple aspects.

Brusque story x in Male monarch's Dark Shift.

This one took awhile to come up together for me. The first one-half or so takes its time providing the context. While all the tension is held off a chip. Honestly, it was only the ending that brought my satisfaction with the story up with a overnice decision in multiple aspects.

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One very interesting book, really well fabricated how the children are put how everything is put and so on and so on. Makes information technology incrediable, I won't end just books like "Stand past me" and others like this even and this book "Sometimes they come up back" are powerful and incrediable. Little fantasy, horror, drama that's cool. The story probably based on existent stuff and little edits. I have saw such stuff in my life, unfortunately without fantasy but with people like this which want to make you misserable. Wh One very interesting book, really well made how the children are put how everything is put and then on and then on. Makes it incrediable, I won't terminate simply books like "Stand past me" and others like this even and this volume "Sometimes they come back" are powerful and incrediable. Little fantasy, horror, drama that'southward absurd. The story probably based on existent stuff and little edits. I have saw such stuff in my life, unfortunately without fantasy only with people like this which desire to brand you misserable. Which boot, punch y'all so on and so on, fifty-fifty I have been role of such problems. But the horrible matter is that the nightmares come, you don't want them but they come up! ...more

The book, "Sometimes They Come up Back" past: Steven King wasn't really interesting to me. It was neutral. Although I recommend this book to students who are interested in ghosts. The book wasn't specifically detailed well-nigh what the demon physical appearance. This caused me to dislike the book. "Sometimes They Come Back" is basically most a human being named James who faces his past problems in his current time of period. Are they ghosts? Who knows. The book, "Sometimes They Come up Dorsum" by: Steven King wasn't really interesting to me. Information technology was neutral. Although I recommend this volume to students who are interested in ghosts. The book wasn't specifically detailed nearly what the demon physical appearance. This caused me to dislike the book. "Sometimes They Come Back" is basically about a man named James who faces his by problems in his current time of period. Are they ghosts? Who knows. ...more than

It begin as a suspense only then information technology sort of left me feeling lost. It made me call back I knew what was going to happen earlier it happened. Instead of a short story that left readers unsatisfied, King should have made the story a bit longer.

May xiv, 2015 Alisia rated it liked it

Perhaps my mind is just preoccupied but this story seemed a niggling difficult to follow. Just to make sure I did follow the story correctly I looked up the synopsis on wiki. I accept to say the synopsis makes this story sound far more interesting than it actually played out to be.

It was alright.
Sometimes King's bullies all sound like the same person, but with different names ("give me your money or I'll cut yous with my knife...oh wait, he peed his pants!") That can pretty much be the keen in 90% of his stories.
The ending was very dark and Style besides sudden. It was alright.
Sometimes King'south bullies all audio like the aforementioned person, but with unlike names ("requite me your money or I'll cut you with my pocketknife...oh await, he peed his pants!") That can pretty much exist the peachy in 90% of his stories.
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Nov 27, 2019 skylar lokota rated it information technology was astonishing

My favorite story from Night Shift so far! "Sometimes They Come up Dorsum" creeped me out and fabricated me nervous while reading. Sinister and satisfying! Also I dearest (view spoiler)[ a good Faustian twist, sue me (hide spoiler)]. My favorite story from Night Shift and so far! "Sometimes They Come Back" creeped me out and made me nervous while reading. Sinister and satisfying! Besides I dear (view spoiler)[ a good Faustian twist, sue me (hide spoiler)]. ...more

Aug 12, 2020 Allison Faught rated it really liked it

I'm kind of excited to watch the motion-picture show adaptation of this one! Kind of had 'The Outsiders' experience to it, merely with a King ending. There were a couple scenes that lost me, a couple that were graphic and a story that kept my interest throughout.

Mar 17, 2014 Susan marked it as nerveless

Cavalier, Mar 1974
Nerveless in Night Shift
Then in The Stephen King Value Collection

Classic Male monarch. Draws you in from the first folio and doesn't let go. One of my favorite King short stories. Just brilliant. Classic King. Draws y'all in from the first page and doesn't let go. One of my favorite King curt stories. Only bright. ...more

Kind of left an eerie feeling later reading. I was lost a few times.

Sometimes they come back is a book about a teacher named Jim Norman,he has a wife that he lives with. In 1957 jims brother wayne was stabbed past the local bullys who would ever sit down effectually at the store. Jim contuines to take nightmares about the awful death of his brother, Jim e'er repeats the one line ``run Jim run'' his brother's last words. Jim has never told anyone what happened, non even his married woman. Jim gets a new task offering equally an english teacher he finds out one his students died in a hi Sometimes they come back is a book well-nigh a instructor named Jim Norman,he has a wife that he lives with. In 1957 jims brother wayne was stabbed by the local bullys who would always sit around at the shop. Jim contuines to take nightmares nigh the awful death of his blood brother, Jim always repeats the one line ``run Jim run'' his brother's concluding words. Jim has never told anyone what happened, not even his wife. Jim gets a new job offer as an english instructor he finds out one his students died in a hit and run. A petty chip after he gets a new student that looks just similar ane of the boys who killed his brother,named Robert Lawson who would be in his 30s past now. More deaths happen and so effentally the whole gang of boys who seem to expect like the ones who killed his brother are in his class, Jim has a gut feeling that something isnt right. I of his students came to him panicking saying that the boys called Jim an old friend and wanted to kill him. Jim calls a cop to get information about where the boys who killed his brother are at present the cop tells him they all are dead. Just the cop was wrong, the boys are ghosts at present, Jim calls the boys to meet him subsequently school in a dark room where Jim then cuts a finger off from both easily and forms an evil monster spell that then kills the boys. Jim got his revenge but notwithstanding lost two fingers from it.
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Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his male parent left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his female parent. Parts of his babyhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his begetter'due south family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was 11, his mother brought her children back to Durham, G Stephen Edwin King was born the 2nd son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury Rex. Later on his begetter left them when Stephen was ii, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was xi, his female parent brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for skilful. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had get incapacitated with quondam age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to have over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a pocket-sized house in Durham and financial support. Afterwards Stephen'south grandparents passed away, Mrs. Male monarch found piece of work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.

Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a fellow member of the Student Senate. He came to back up the anti-war move on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a bourgeois view that the state of war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English language and qualified to teach on the high schoolhouse level. A typhoon lath examination immediately post-graduation found him iv-F on grounds of loftier blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.

He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked equally students; they married in January of 1971. Every bit Stephen was unable to find placement every bit a instructor immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings every bit a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her educatee loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a brusque story auction to men'due south magazines.

Stephen made his first professional short story auction ("The Glass Flooring") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he connected to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.

In the autumn of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden University, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.

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