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Skeleton Crew Mass Market Paperback – June 3, 1986
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In this brilliant collection of twenty-two stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine….
A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction…a trip to the attic turns into a journey to hell…a woman driver finds a very 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.
Features the novella “The Mist”—Now a major motion picture
- Print length576 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBerkley
- Publication dateJune 3, 1986
- Dimensions4.16 x 1.17 x 6.87 inches
- ISBN-100451168615
- ISBN-13978-0451168610
- Lexile measure840L
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And he sure does. Skeleton Crew contains a superb short novel ("The Mist") that alone is worth the price of admission, plus two forgettable poems and 20 short stories on such themes as an evil toy monkey, a human-eating water slick, a machine that avenges murder, and unnatural creatures that inhabit the thick woods near Castle Rock, Maine. The short tales range from simply enjoyable to surprisingly good.
In addition to "The Mist," the real standout is "The Reach," a beautifully subtle story about a great-grandmother who was born on a small island off the coast of Maine and has lived there her whole life. She has never been across "the Reach," the body of water between island and mainland. This is the story that King fans give to their friends who don't read horror in order to show them how literate, how charming a storyteller he can be. Don't miss it. --Fiona Webster
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"Wildly imaginative, delightfully diabolical." --Associated Press
“Wonderfully gruesome…Don’t turn your back on this book.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Stephen King at his best.”—The Denver Post
“Wildly imaginative, delightfully diabolical…King once again proves to be the consummate storyteller.”—The Associated Press
“Stunning, ingenious…Stephen King at the very top of his talent.”—New York Daily News
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Product details
- Publisher : Berkley; Reissue edition (June 3, 1986)
- Language : English
- Mass Market Paperback : 576 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0451168615
- ISBN-13 : 978-0451168610
- Lexile measure : 840L
- Item Weight : 12 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.16 x 1.17 x 6.87 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #408,930 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7,061 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction
- #17,179 in Horror Literature & Fiction
- #45,910 in American Literature (Books)
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About the author

Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His first crime thriller featuring Bill Hodges, MR MERCEDES, won the Edgar Award for best novel and was shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award. Both MR MERCEDES and END OF WATCH received the Goodreads Choice Award for the Best Mystery and Thriller of 2014 and 2016 respectively.
King co-wrote the bestselling novel Sleeping Beauties with his son Owen King, and many of King's books have been turned into celebrated films and television series including The Shawshank Redemption, Gerald's Game and It.
King was the recipient of America's prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American Letters. In 2007 he also won the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives with his wife Tabitha King in Maine.
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I would like to tell Mr. King that cement and concrete are not interchangeable. Cement is to concrete as flour is to cake - a mistake many authors and newscasters make. I'm not sure he used either in this book, however, he has from time to time
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The Mist-The longest story in the book. A video retelling of the tale is now showing on the Spike network. One Maine morning a mist invades a beautiful lakeside area. The first person narrator's wife urges him to go to the grocery to stock up but on his arrival he discovers that dinosaurs have invaded the market! This tale reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds . It has an apocalyptic theme and is quite scary.
Mrs Todd's Shortcut tells the enchanting story of a lovely woman who resembles the ancient goddess Diana on her auto jaunts. A romantic story with great descriptions of a New England October.
The Man Who Who Would Not Shake Hands-Tragedy following a car wreck in distant India. Every time the chief protagonist of this tale shakes hands with someone they die!
Beachworld-A science fiction yarn about a spaceship trapped on a planet that is nothing but sand dunes!
Nona-A bloody tale told by a serial killer who is insane
Survivor Tale-A grisly story of an unethical medical doctor stranded on a forbidding island after his boat sinks. Not for the queasy among us!
The Jaunt-A futuristic tale of mind travel from Earth to Mars.
The Raft-Four college students decide to go swimming from a raft in a lonely Maine lake before being confronting by a horrible creature that eats them!
The Reaper's Image-An early short story by King in which the image of the grim reaper appears on an expensive old mirror.
Light and entertaining reading.
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and the Reach, these stories where outstanding and well worth the price alone, these are all typical King stories and come highly recommended.
It includes some great stories that have earned their fame elsewhere, such as "The Raft", "The Monkey" and "The Mist", the last of which is possibly the best example of rising terror I've ever read, and recently made into a film (which I haven't yet seen - it's probably rubbish anyway). As in most collections of this size there are a few less inspiring stories, but most are short and even if they don't give you the chills you were after, you'll never feel like you wasted your time reading them. King's narrative style and dialogue are as good as ever--
A great collection, dirt cheap now online so pick it up!












