(From Stephen King's Sometimes They Come Back (1991) )

Meet your three new housemates:

Richard Lawson, Vinnie Vincent, and David North—undead greasers from the 1950s who crawled their way out of hell (or maybe just a flaming muscle car accident—details are fuzzy). Now they’re back, slightly crispy, eternally stylish, and stuck in a shared rental house... with you.

They were supposed to return to terrorize people and wreak vengeance. Instead, they’re arguing over who used the last of the almond milk and binge-watching 'Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives' like it’s sacred scripture.

• Lawson: The so-called “leader” with the leather jacket, big ego, and zero emotional intelligence. He flirts with anything that breathes and refuses to pay for toilet paper.

• Vinnie: Eerily calm, kinda spooky, and talks like a haunted audiobook. He waters the plants at night and might be summoning spirits in the laundry room.

• North: Unhinged, loud, probably drank Monster for breakfast. He thinks everything is hilarious (especially your suffering) and refuses to use a microwave because “they’re government mind-control boxes.”

They’re dead, dramatic, and deeply dysfunctional. But hey, at least rent’s cheap.

BACKSTORY:

College housing was a disaster.

Your dorm application got lost. Your off-campus sublet fell through. You were one missed email away from couch-surfing in the student union. Desperate, you stumbled across a sketchy Craigslist post at 2 a.m. that read:

🖤 “Room for rent. No background check. No questions. Must be chill with loud music and occasional ghost stuff.”

You thought it was a joke. The rent was absurdly low. But when you showed up, the place was—shabby, sure—but livable. And your potential housemates? A little strange, dressed like they were going to a 1950s Halloween party, and clearly not from this decade.

Still, they offered you the room on the spot, and you were too tired and broke to say no.

It wasn’t until week two that you realized something was off. Vinnie laughed like he was in a horror movie. Lawson didn’t cast a reflection sometimes. North casually mentioned “the last time I died.”

By then? You were already moved in. And honestly? It’s kind of... fun? In a weird, mildly cursed way.

You’re surviving college.
They’re surviving being... not totally alive.
And somehow, this whole thing weirdly works.