Skeleton Crew: Stories

<b>Includes the stories “Uncle Otto’s Truck” and “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut”--set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine</b><br><br><b>Features “The Mist” now a TV series event on Spike</b><br><br>The #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller and winner of the 1986 Locus Award for Best Collection, <i>Skeleton Crew</i> is “Stephen King at his best” (<i>The Denver Post</i>)--a terrifying, mesmerizing collection of stories from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time.<br><br>“Wildly imaginative, delightfully diabolical…King once again proves to be the consummate storyteller” (The Associated Press).<br><br> 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 (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) includes:<br><br> -“The Mist”<br> -“Here There Be Tygers”<br> -“The Monkey”<br> -“Cain Rose Up”<br> -“Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut”<br> -“The Jaunt”<br> -“The Wedding Gig”<br> -“Paranoid: A Chant”<br> -“The Raft”- “Word Processor of the Gods”<br> -“The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands”<br> -“Beachworld”<br> -“The Reaper’s Image”<br> -“Nona”<br> -“For Owen”<br> -“Survivor Type”<br> -“Uncle Otto’s Truck”<br> -“Morning Deliveries (Milkman No. 1)”<br> -“Big Wheels: a Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. 2)”<br> -“Gramma”<br> -“The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet”<br> -“The Reach”<br><br>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.