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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‘This is what happened’ – The Mist, 1. The Coming of the Storm
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(Sphere, I January 1986, paperback, 624 pages, bought from a charity shop many years ago but I can’t remember what one)
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I’ve read Skeleton Crew a few times. My copy is a second hand one bought in a charity shop many years ago. It’s falling apart after so many re-read’s and the cover is about to come off. I’ll need to buy a new copy soon. It’s one of King’s earliest collections. I like this collection of stories a lot. I like the fact that the stories are all quite different and are mix of genres including horror. The best stories are The Mist (I hated the movie adaptation), Mrs Todd’s Shortcut, Word Processor of the Gods, Nona and The Reach. I’d recommend this.
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I’m currently reading through the lists of books with some connection to The Dark Tower from Stephen King’s own website, https://stephenking.com/darktower/connections/. According to this link the connections between The Dark Tower and Skeleton Crew are:
1: THE BALLAD OF THE FLEXIBLE BULLET: In the Dark Tower novels, Ginelli (no first name given) owns the Four Fathers Restaurant and The Ginelli Pizza truck. In “Thinner,” Richard Ginelli is a silent partner in the Three Fathers Restaurant. In “The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet” the Four Fathers bar appears.
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