![]() ![]() It's a story you may wish you hadn't read. "Graveyard Shift" is about cleaning out a long unused factory basement that has a subbasement-a hideous colony of fat giant blind legless rats that are mutating into bats. ![]() But most of the other tales go straight through you like rats' fangs. His big opening tale, "Jerusalem's Lot"-about a deserted village-is obviously his first shot at 'Salem's Lot and, in its dependence on a gigantic worm out of Poe and Lovecraft, it misses the novel's gorged frenzy of Vampireville. He is as effective in the horror vignette as in the novel. The present collection rounds up his magazine pieces, mainly from Cavalier, and also offers nine stories not previously published. King, of course, is the 30-year-old zillionaire who poured the pig's blood on Carrie, woke the living dead in 'Salem's Lot, and gave a bad name to precognition in The Shining. Twenty New England horror shorts by Stephen King (and a painfully lofty introduction by old pro John D. ![]()
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