Graveyard shift

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Graveyard shift means a shift of work running through the early hours of the morning, especially one from midnight until 8 am. There is no certainty as to the origin of this phrase; according to Michael Quinion it is little more than "an evocative term for the night shift ... when ... your skin is clammy, there's sand behind your eyeballs, and the world is creepily silent, like the graveyard.".^[1]

Recently, the World Health Organization, has announced that working the graveyard shift will be listed as a 'probable' cause of cancer. An estimated twenty percent of the American labor force works the night shift.^[2]

Graveyard shift may also refer to:

Contents 1 Movies, television, and video games 2 Literature 3 Music 4 References

[edit] Movies, television, and video games

• Graveyard Shift (Central Park Drifter), a film about a vampire taxi cab driver.
• Graveyard Shift, a film based on the Stephen King story of the same name.
• Graveyard Shift, an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants
• Graveyard Shift, a mission in video game Hitman 2: Silent Assassin

[edit] Literature

• Graveyard Shift, a short story by Stephen King, from his Night Shift collection. Adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1989.
• The Graveyard Shift, a novel by Jack Higgins under his real name, Harry Patterson, the first of three featuring Detective Nick Miller.
• The Graveyard Shift, a short novel by William P. McGivern featured in Alfred Hitchcock's Anthology - Volume 4.

[edit] Music

• "Graveyard Shift", a song by Uncle Tupelo
• "Graveyard Shift", a song by Steve Earl and the Del McCoury Band from The Mountain (album)
• "Graveyard Shift", a song by Kardinal Offishall from the 2008 album Not 4 Sale
• "Graveyard Shift", a song by John Zorn from the 1989 album Naked City
• Graveyard Shift, a side-project of Jani Liimatainen and former bandmate Henrik Klingenberg of Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica
• Graveyard Shift, a now defunct rap rock group that was under the Mo Thug record label. Comprised of members Tombstone, Sin and Gate's.

[edit] References