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Title: The Overnight Title Record # 158073
Author: Ramsey Campbell
Date: 2004-06-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: The bookstore’s shelves are put in order every night, but every morning, books are found lying all over the floor, many damp and damaged beyond repair. The store’s computers keep acting up, and even when the machines are off, they seem to glow with a spectral gray light. Things soon go from bad to worse. A salesclerk abruptly loses his ability to read. One employee accuses another of making sexual advances. A hit-and-run in the parking lot claims a life. The security monitors display half-seen things crawling between the stacks. Desperate to pass a company inspection, the manager musters his staff for an overnight inventory. When the last customers reluctantly depart, leaving almost-visible trails of slime shining behind them, the doors are locked, sealing the staff inside for a final orgy of shelving. The damp, grey, silent things that have been lurking in the basement and hiding in the fog may move slowly, but they are inexorable. This bookstore is the doorway to a hell unlike any other.
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Awards

Place Year and Award Category
Win 2004 IHG Best Novel

Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Overnight 2004-06-00 Ramsey Campbell PS Publishing 1-902880-96-X
£35.00?£: UK pound
xv+
414
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel J. K. Potter Checkmark
The Overnight 2004-06-00 Ramsey Campbell PS Publishing 1-902880-95-1
£60.00?£: UK pound
414
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel J. K. Potter  
The Overnight 2005-03-00 Ramsey Campbell Tor 0-765-31299-9
$24.95?$: US dollar
396
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
novel David Bowers  
The Overnight 2006-04-00 Ramsey Campbell Tor 0-765-35153-6
$7.99?$: US dollar
390
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
novel  
The Overnight 2012-09-01 Ramsey Campbell Drugstore Indian Press 978-1-84863-491-6
£6.99?£: UK pound
362
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
novel  
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