"The Crate" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the July 1979 issue of Gallery. In 1982, the story was adapted as a segment in the movie Creepshow, and included in comic-book form in the Creepshow graphic novella. An old wooden crate, marked from an 1834 Arctic expedition, is discovered by a janitor beneath the basement stairs at the zoology department of Horlicks University. He notifies Dexter Stanley, the school's biology professor, and together they open it to discover the crate contains a small yet powerful – and hungry – beast, still alive after 140 years. The creature kills and eats the janitor, as well as Stanley's grad student Charlie Gereson – consuming them entirely, leaving only scraps of clothing behind.
Adaptations (1)
The Crate was adapted into a 1982 film.
Creepshow1982 · film · 120 min · dir. George A. Romero · IMDb ↗Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
