Skeleton Crew

Includes the stories ';Uncle Otto's Truck' and ';Mrs. Todd's Shortcut'—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine Features ';The Mist' now a TV series event on Spike 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.';Wildly imaginative, delightfully diabolical…King once again proves to be the consummate storyteller' (The Associated Press). 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: -';The Mist' -';Here There Be Tygers' -';The Monkey' -';Cain Rose Up' -';Mrs. Todd's Shortcut' -';The Jaunt' -';The Wedding Gig' -';Paranoid: A Chant' -';The Raft'- ';Word Processor of the Gods' -';The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands' -';Beachworld' -';The Reaper's Image' -';Nona' -';For Owen' -';Survivor Type' -';Uncle Otto's Truck' -';Morning Deliveries (Milkman No. 1)' -';Big Wheels: a Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. 2)' -';Gramma' -';The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet' -';The Reach' 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.