![]() The boss demands these men go into the long unused basement where they discover … cockroaches. In my version of the tale, called “Rat Patrol,” a group of men work for a vicious boss in a furniture warehouse in Queens. ![]() I immediately set about plagiarizing the thing. Things don’t go well.Ĭupid might as well have hit me with an arrow. Finally, they discover the mother of these mutations, a rat as big as a cow. The men descend to discover that rats have turned the basement into their kingdom the farther they travel into the bowels of this underworld, the bigger and weirder the rats become. ![]() One night his boss commands a crew of men to help him clean out the basement of the mill, a place that hasn’t been touched in decades. The second story in the collection, “Graveyard Shift,” is about a guy who gets work at a textile mill in a small town in Maine. By the time I’d turned 12 I felt sure I wanted to be a writer - a horror writer - and “Night Shift” became my template. But I picked it up and devoured it at some point, reading and rereading until the cover wore thin and fell off. His first collection, “Night Shift,” came out in 1978. ![]() The first time I wrote a short story I ripped off Stephen King. ![]()
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