Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

And this week I'm diving back into the world of night shift.

Specifically, I am looking at the adaptations of Stephen King's first collection

of short stories, Night Shift, one particular adaptation of one particular short story,

an infamous adaptation, if you will, one that I had decided on the first go-around not to

touch, but after some people have asked

me to do it, I decided, hey, what harm is it in reviewing maximum overdrive?

And I have a lot of thoughts on maximum overdrive, so bear with me.

But before I get there, there's a lot to talk about actually in the world of Stephen King right now.

As I'm recording this, it is Friday the 13th Eve, aka Thursday, Friday the 12th of October.

So just the fact that we're getting a Friday the 13th in October is pretty awesome.

In the world of Jonathan Mayberry, who wrote the Pine Deep trilogy that I reviewed this time

last year, tomorrow, Friday the 13th in October, is known as Little Halloween.

So let's all celebrate Little Halloween with a little maximum overdrive.

And also, if you haven't, if you're just listening to this for the first time, uh, welcome to Stephen King cast, but, um, please

know that the, uh, I, during the course of this, this podcast, just almost 170, it's past

170 episodes. Uh, I have reviewed not just Stephen King.

I've also touched upon works by other authors that fans of Stephen King, I believe would enjoy

one example is, like I just mentioned, an author by the name of Jonathan Mayberry, who

whose style when writing the Pine Deep trilogy

is very reminiscent of Stephen King as a love letter to Halloween.

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