Includes the stories "Uncle Otto's Truck" and "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut"--set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine Features "The Mist" now a TV series event on Spike The #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 1986 Locus Award for Best Collection, Skeleton Crew is "Stephen King at his best" ( The Denver Post )--a terrifying, mesmerizing collection of stories from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time."Wildly imaginative, delightfully diabolical...King once again proves to be the ...
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Includes the stories "Uncle Otto's Truck" and "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut"--set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine Features "The Mist" now a TV series event on Spike The #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the 1986 Locus Award for Best Collection, Skeleton Crew is "Stephen King at his best" ( The Denver Post )--a terrifying, mesmerizing collection of stories from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time."Wildly imaginative, delightfully diabolical...King once again proves to be the consummate storyteller" (The Associated Press). A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. A woman driving a Jaguar finds a scary shortcut to paradise. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil. And a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged. This "wonderfully gruesome" collection ( The New York Times Book Review ) includes: -"The Mist" -"Here There Be Tygers" -"The Monkey" -"Cain Rose Up" -"Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" -"The Jaunt" -"The Wedding Gig" -"Paranoid: A Chant" -"The Raft"- "Word Processor of the Gods" -"The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands" -"Beachworld" -"The Reaper's Image" -"Nona" -"For Owen" -"Survivor Type" -"Uncle Otto's Truck" -"Morning Deliveries (Milkman No. 1)" -"Big Wheels: a Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. 2)" -"Gramma" -"The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" -"The Reach" King is best known for his iconic, immersive long novels, but he is also a master of the short story, and this is a magnificent collection.
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Add this copy of Skeleton Crew: Stories to cart. $85.32, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2020 by Simon & Schuster Audio and Bla.
Add this copy of Skeleton Crew: Stories to cart. $123.67, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2020 by Simon & Schuster Audio and Bla.
As a huge fan of horror fiction AND Stephen King, Skeleton Crew was his second collection of short stories that I read after Night Shift. It was also an excellent book that I loved just as much! The majority of his fans would automatically mention the first story, The Mist, as their favorite, but while I always immensely enjoy reading the novella, there are numerous stories in this collection that I would call just as good or better. The Monkey has always been one of my favorites, a terrifying story of a man who moves his family into a new house and finds a toy from his childhood, a toy monkey that brought a lot of horror and death into his young life. Cain Rose Up is one of the shortest stories in the book, but it is also one of the scariest. It is about a college student who rapidly goes crazy, becoming more and more unpredictably dangerous. What he decides to do about it will horrify you. Uncle Ottos Truck is the spooky tale of a man who is haunted by the broken down truck that belonged to his deceased uncle. Gramma is a chilling story of a little boy who discovers a frighteningly good reason to be afraid of his bed-ridden grandma. Finally, The Reach is about an old woman who suddenly finds that she can see the ghost of her dead husband and others, ghosts who are summoning her to The Reach, the body of water that separates the small town of Little Tall Island from the mainland. Any fan of Stephen King who enjoys his short stories will enjoy this book, but it is a particularly perfect choice for horror fans!
