The Late Shift

Last night I finished reading American Supernatural Tales, which I thought was really pretty good, although a lot of the stories were not exactly supernatural, they were more like science-fiction. The stories were all arranged chronologicaly and prefaced by brief biographies of the author. One story I was reading last night was "The Late Shift" by Dennis Etchison, in which a sinister company reanimates corpses in order to provide free labour for the late night shifts in stores and garages, and "Last Call for the Sons of Shock" by David J. Schow, in which the old "Universal Monsters" (the creatures from the horror films made by Universal Studios in the 1930s, such as Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster and the Wolf-Man) have survived into the present-day where Dracula is a high-class drug pusher, Frankenstein's Monster owns a rock bar in Hollywood and the Wolf-Man is a professional wrestler and they gather for their annual reunion to look back over past glories and learn that the Creature from the Black Lagoon has returned home, while the Invisible Man has just vanished.

It was another really quiet day at work. I got home at around quarter to six.