title: The Stephen King Value Collection: Lawnmower Man, Gray Matter, and Graveyard Shift (Value Collections)
author:  Stephen King 
description: Glover<br />Six cassettes, 9 hours<br /><br /><b>Tales from </b><b><i>Gray Matter</i></b><b> include:</b><br />The Boogeyman<br />I Know What You Need<br />Strawberry Spring<br />Gray Matter<br />The Woman in the Room<br />Battleground<br /><br /><b>Tales from </b><b><i>Graveyard Shift</i></b><b> include:</b><br />Graveyard Shift<br />The Man Who Loved Flowers<br />The Last Rung on The Ladder<br />Night Surf<br />Jerusalem's Lot<br /><br /><b>Tales from </b><b><i>Lawnmower Man</i></b><b> include:</b><br />Lawnmower Man<br />The Mangler<br />Quitters, Inc.<br />The Ledge<br />Sometimes They Come Back
zlib_text: 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  GRAVEYARD SHIFT
  
  
  Stephen King
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Two A.M., Friday.
  
  
  Hall was sitting on the bench by the elevator, the only place on the third
  floor where a working joe could catch a smoke, when Warwick came up. He wasn’t
  happy to see Warwick. The foreman wasn’t supposed to show up on three during
  the graveyard shift; he was supposed to stay down in his office in the
  basement drinking coffee from the urn that stood on the corner of his desk.
  Besides, it was hot.
  
  
  It was the hottest June on record in Gates Falls, and the Orange Crush
  thermometer which was also by the elevator had once rested at 94 degrees at
  three in the morning. God only knew what kind of hellhole the mill was on the
  three-to-eleven shift.
  
  
  Hall worked the picker machine, a balky gadget manufactured by a defunct
  Cleveland firm in 1934. He had only been working in the mill since April,
  which meant he was still making minimum $1.78 an hour, which was still all
  right. No wife, no steady girl, no alimony. He was