NIGHT SURF: A group of survivors of a flu virus that has wiped out most of earth’s population struggles to make a life for themselves in an almost empty, desolate world. The story is not very gory but is still about giant killer rats which are kind of crass.
It’s well written and okay as far as stories go. Graveyard Shift is one of the weaker stories in this collection. The man forces his cruel foreman deeper into the sub-basement until the rats devour him. The crew discover a sub-basement that is home to hordes of mutant rats some as large as a dog. GRAVEYARD SHIFT: A man agrees to be part of a clean-up crew clearing out the basement of the old mill where he works. I can’t help wonder if this story developed into the novel Salem’s Lot. It’s a well written tale and lacks gore despite the gruesome premise. Jerusalem’s Lot is written in the form of letters between the young man who inherited Chapelwaite and an old friend. He uncovers skeletons in the family closet involving religious fanaticism, the unholy worship of a giant worm and three members of his family are the undead. JERUSALEM’S LOT: A man moves to the huge estate he has inherited when a distant relative died. A world where madness and blind panic become the only reality.ĭEAR BONES, How good it was to step into the cold, draughty hall here at Chapelwaite, every bone in an ache from that abominable coach, in need of instant relief from my distended bladder – and to see a letter addressed in your own imitable scrawl propped on the obscene little cherry-wood table beside the door (JERUSALEM’S LOT)
This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where the familiar and friendly lure and deceive. As you read, the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck, reach round from behind to clutch and lock themselves, white-knuckled, around the throat. These are tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the creeping peopled shadows of night. Children of the Corn were adapted for a TV movie of the same name (2009).Ī collection of terrifying stories that reveal a shuddering detailed map of the dark places that lie behind our waking, rational world. Battleground was adapted as part of the series Nightmares & Dreamscapes (2006).
Trucks were adapted for a TV movie with the same name (1997). TV ADAPTATIONS: Sometimes They Come Back was adapted as TV movie of the same name (1991). The Mangler was adapted for the screen as a movie with the same name (1995). Graveyard Shift was adapted for the screen as a movie with the same name (1990). Trucks were adapted for the screen as the movie Maximum Overdrive (1986). Quitter’s Inc and The Ledge were adapted for the screen as the movie Cat’s Eye (1985). FEATURE FILM ADAPTATIONS: Children of the Corn were adapted for the screen into a series of horror movies (1984+).
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