 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to Thursday Theorist. Today we are talking about Stephen King's first published short story collection night shift. I'm gonna be going through these and connecting the stories that that I can connect anyways But also I'm gonna leave some stuff out. I'm gonna let you guys down there in the comments below Tell me stuff that you guys found on your own You can sheet if you want to and go running around to the Stephen King wiki or to the actual Connections page on his website. You can if you want to I think it'd be more fun If you guys use your actual knowledge and let me know what you caught that I did not mention in this episode down below If you want to get my full review and read through All of my catches from this you can go to Goodreads.com. There's a I'll leave a link down there in the doobly-doo to my review And it'll give you all the connections that I made so first and foremost we were gonna go to Jerusalem's lot or as it's more popularly popularly known as Salem's lot This the short story Jerusalem's lot is far more Lovecraftian than it is vampires or anything like that is a very dark Insidious story. It's all right. I am not a huge fan of the way it's written. I'm just I mean King doesn't write like King in that story King writes like Lovecraft. I mean that's exactly what it felt like and I'm not a big fan of Lovecraft So I'm not a fan of the story The funny part about it is that this is one of two Salem's lot themed stories in this book and of course Salem's lot comes into play with the dark tower because of father Callahan He's in the Wolves of the Kala song of Susanna and I think he spoilers and all that remember these are spoiler videos He dies in the dark tower now next one is Let's see here a night surf. I think it is I'm pretty sure night surf is the one from the stand if I remember correctly. Hang on. Let me go through here I am the doorway It's the plague Yeah This is where the people are on the beach and they're talking about the smell of the smell of the burning flesh from the bodies That they're getting rid of I found that extremely interesting that he would write a short story Considering how big and vast the stand is that he would go and write a short story based on that let's see here next up is Gray matter gray matter is important and same with the boogeyman which are both in here Gray matter is important because I believe that Pennywise is a gray and the thing that leads me to believe that the most is the way Pennywise introduces himself at the beginning of it as I'm either mr. Bob gray or Pennywise the dancing clown And gray matter is all about some kind of alien shapeshifting thing And it also ties into spoilers for the outsiders It ties into the end of the outsider as well because of the the mass That you see in the story gray matter fits the changing of the outsider in the outsider So all these things tie together. I find that really cool Let's see here. There was one more on one to bring up. Let's see here One for the road is the last Salem's lot story Other than if you go wolves of the Kala they go back and they talk a little more about what happened to Salem's lot but in one for the road It's probably one of Stephen King's more frightening stories because if you haven't read is or if you have read It's more frightening knowing what the thing is a car breaks down They end up going out and checking on it They end up breaking down the outskirts of Salem's lot and you realize that all these vampires are still Running around the area And causing havoc and they're still dangerous and I think there's a there's a part Is this gonna be word for word? but he talks about the glowing red eyes in the dark and I had a blast wondering maybe who from Salem's lot that Was that happened to traits out, you know into the Surrounding area to come see about the broke-down car. Anyways, so what connections what stories connect for you? What connections did you find? I want to know make this a community thing Let me know down there in the comments below, but until next time I have any you've in you This has been another Thursday theorist review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye