Graveyard Shift: A Novella
By (Author) M L Rio
Thorndike Press
Thorndike Press
1st March 2025
Large Print Edition
United States
General
Fiction
Horror and supernatural fiction
Classic fiction: general and literary
Hardback
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
Every night, in the colleges ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a bartender, a rideshare driver, a hotel receptionist, the steward of the derelict church that looms over them, and the editor-in-chief of the college paper, always in search of a story.
One dark October evening in the defunct churchyard, they find a hole that wasnt there before. A fresh, open grave where no grave should be. But who dug it, and for whom
Before they go their separate ways, the gravedigger returns. As they trail him through the night, they realize he may be the key to a string of strange happenings around town that have made headlines for the last few weeksand that they may be closer to the mystery than they thought.
Atmospheric and eerie, with the ensemble cast her fans love and a delightfully familiar academic backdrop, Graveyard Shift is a modern Gothic tale in If We Were Villains author M. L. Rios inimitable style.
M. L. Rio holds an MA in Shakespeare studies from Kings College London and Shakespeares Globe and a PhD in English from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her bestselling first novel If We Were Villains has been published in twenty countries and eighteen languages. Graveyard Shift is her first novella.