Graveyard Shift

Graveyard Shift

Infobox short story |
name = Graveyard Shift
author = Stephen King
country = United States
language = English
genre = Horror short story
published_in = Night Shift
publisher = Doubleday
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pub_date = 1978
preceded_by =
followed_by =

"Graveyard Shift" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in 1978 in the compilation "Night Shift".

etting

"Graveyard Shift" is set in a small town in Maine, and the action largely takes place in a textile mill.

Plot summary

A young drifter 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. Some have even gained rudimentary flight. They eventually come across a sub-basement, locked from the inside, that harbors something more terrifying and hideous than any of the men could have dreamed - a cow-sized mother rat with no eyes or legs, only breeding more rats.

Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

The movie was filmed in the village of Harmony, Maine at Bartlettyarns Inc. , the oldest woolen yarn mill in the United States (est. 1821). The historic Bartlett mill was renamed "Bachman" for the movie. The interior shots of the antique mill machinery, and the riverside cemetery, were in Harmony. Other scenes (restaurant interior, and giant wool picking machine) were at locations in Bangor, Maine, at an abandoned waterworks and armory. A few other mill scenes were staged near the Eastland woolen mill in Corinna, Maine, which subsequently became a Super Fund site.

External links

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