"Graveyard Shift" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the October 1970 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. It was adapted into a 1990 film of the same name.
Graveyard Shift is set in a small town in Maine, and the action largely takes place in a textile mill.
A young drifter named Hall, has been working at a decrepit textile mill in a small town in Maine when his boss, a cruel ta...
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"Graveyard Shift" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the October 1970 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. It was adapted into a 1990 film of the same name.
Graveyard Shift is set in a small town in Maine, and the action largely takes place in a textile mill.
A young drifter named Hall, has been working at a decrepit textile mill in a small town in Maine when his boss, a cruel taskmaster, recruits him and others to assist with a massive cleaning effort. The basement of the old mill has been abandoned for decades, and over the years, a monumental infestation of rats has taken hold. This rat empire, cut off from the rest of nature, has allowed the animals to evolve into a strange and varied combination of vicious mutant creatures. Some have even gained rudimentary flight. The men eventually come across a sub-basement, locked from the inside, that harbors something more terrifying and hideous than any of the men could...
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