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Title	:	Skeleton Crew
Author	:	Stephen King
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 612 pages
Published	:	May 13th 1993 by Warner Books (first published June 21st 1985)
Categories	:	Horror. Short Stories. Fiction. Fantasy. Thriller. Anthologies. Supernatural

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The Master at his scarifying best! From heart-pounding terror to the eeriest of whimsy--tales from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time!

Evil that breathes and walks and shrieks, brave new worlds and horror shows, human desperation bursting into deadly menace--such are the themes of these astounding works of fiction. In the tradition of Poe and Stevenson, of Lovecraft and The Twilight Zone, Stephen King has fused images of fear as old as time with the iconography of contemporary American life to create his own special brand of horror--one that has kept millions of readers turning the pages even as they gasp.

In the book-length story "The Mist," a supermarket becomes the last bastion of humanity as a peril beyond dimension invades the earth. . .

Touch "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands," and say your prayers . . .

There are some things in attics which are better left alone, things like "The Monkey" . . .

The most sublime woman driver on earth offers a man "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" to paradise . . .

A boy's sanity is pushed to the edge when he's left alone with the odious corpse of "Gramma" . . .

If you were stunned by Gremlins, the Fornits of "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" will knock your socks off . . .

Trucks that punish and beautiful teen demons who seduce a young man to massacre; curses whose malevolence grows through the years; obscene presences and angels of grace--here, indeed, is a night-blooming bouquet of chills and thrills.

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Original Title:	Skeleton Crew
ISBN:	0751504386 (ISBN13: 9780751504385)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Locus Award for Best Collection (1986), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Anthology/Collection (1986)

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You can find this review and more at Novel Notions. Stephen King is such a master storyteller. Ive come to love him over the past few years, and I now count him among my favorite authors. I have to agree with the masses, however; King tends to fall flat when it comes to endings. Thankfully, thats not really an issue when it comes to short stories. Theyre not supposed to really end, which I think is a huge boon in Kings favor. As with Night Shift, the first of Kings short story collections I



You can find this review and more at Novel Notions. Stephen King is such a master storyteller. Ive come to love him over the past few years, and I now count him among my favorite authors. I have to agree with the masses, however; King tends to fall flat when it comes to endings. Thankfully, thats not really an issue when it comes to short stories. Theyre not supposed to really end, which I think is a huge boon in Kings favor. As with Night Shift, the first of Kings short story collections I

Skeleton Crew is still my overall favorite of Stephen King's short story collections. Several of the stories have been used in film and television (in forms that I actually enjoyed!) and I think that overall he does a good job of maintaining an aura of suspense throughout the collection instead of from story to story. The collection actually starts off with a novella, The Mist, that I used an excerpt from during high school for a competitive forensics dramatic reading that I scored very well

A collection of stories that starts with the novella "The Mist." There are a couple of fantastic stories with the rest being good. I didn't enjoy the inclusion of two poems, but overall the ratings averaged out to a solid four. This is King's second short story collection, but I enjoyed his first, "Night Shift", the best.1.The Mist -I reviewed this where it originally appeared in the anthology "Dark Forces". See my review there. (5/5)2. Here There Be Tygers - Short and strange. There is a tiger

1. The Mist - 5/52. Here There Tygers - 4/53. The Monkey - 4/54. Cain Rose Up - 4/55. Mrs. Todd's Shortcut - 2/56. The Jaunt - 3/57. The Wedding Gig - 4/58. Paranoid: A Chant - 3/59. The Raft - 4/510. Word Processor of the Gods - 4/511. The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands - 2/512. Beachworld - 5/513. The Reaper's Image - 3/514. Nona - 5/515. For Owen - 4/516. Survivor Type - 4/517. Uncle Otto's Truck - 3.5/518. Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1) - 3/519. Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game

Stephen King seems to be a bit hit and miss with me. Sometimes there can be a Joyland and sometimes there can be a Under the Dome. But they have never been bad or unreadable, just seemingly poor, rushed and formulaic. I am noticing that I like his more modern tales greater than his 80s and 90s huge output.So here is a short story collection from that time. The time where it seems like he was writing a book every couple of months. And it was just how I find myself feeling about all of his works.