Skeleton Crew: Stories

Includes the stories “Uncle Otto’s Truck” and “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut”--set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine<br/><br/>Features “The Mist” now a TV series event on Spike<br/><br/>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.<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 (The New York Times Book Review) 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.