Gates Falls is a town in Maine. It appears in the short story "Graveyard Shift" from the short story collection Night Shift. It houses a textile mill that is infested with rats. The 1990 film adaptation was filmed in Harmony, Maine.
The name of the mill is never given in the short story. In the film it's named Bachman Textile Mill.
It is mentioned in the novel Salem's Lot as being in the vicinity of the town of Jerusalem's Lot. Jerusalem's Lot is said to be a bedroom town for Gates Falls, as well as the cities of Lewiston and Portland.
According to the short story "It Grows On You," Gates Falls is located near Castle Rock.
The textile mill in Gates Falls is not to be confused with the Gates Falls Mill in Lewiston, Maine from the 2004 television series Kingdom Hospital, which manufactured uniforms worn by Union soldiers during the Civil War and burned down in 1869.
In the novel The Dark Half, on their way from Ludlow, Maine to Castle Rock, Maine, George Stark and Liz Beaumont get off the turnpike at Gates Falls.
Mike Noonan, the protagonist of Bag of Bones, mentions that Gates Falls was one of the many western Maine locations in which the band Sara Tidwell and the Red-Top Boys built a reputation.
Peter Riley, the narrator of the novella "Hearts in Atlantis," is from Gates Falls.
In the unfinished novel The Plant, Herb Porter mentions growing up in Gates Falls.
Jamie Morton, the protagonist of Revival, makes various references to Gates Falls and its proximity to Harlow.
In the novella Gwendy's Button Box, Gwendy Peterson and Harry Streeter go on a date at the Gates Falls Roller Rink.
In the novella "Mr. Harrigan’s Phone", the protagonist attends Gates Falls High and his father works in the town as a salesman for Parmeleau Tractors and Heavy Machinery.
In the novella "Rat", Drew Larson mentions going to Gate Falls with his family.
In the novella Two Talented Bastids, Gates Falls is mentioned as being the second largest of the twenty-seven incorporated towns in Castle County, only behind Castle Rock. The novella also states that high schoolers from nearby Harlow, which lacked a high school, could choose between going to Castle Rock High, Gates Falls High, or Mountain View Secondary.
In the novella Rattlesnakes, Vic Trenton remembers contacting a junkyard in Gates Falls to pick up his family's Ford Pinto after the events of Cujo.
In the novella The Dreamers, William Davis spends a night in a motel in Gates Falls.