I’m sure there’s something in here for those who enjoy that kind of thing, but that ain’t me. Sci-fi is a tough sell for me, and this did nothing to change my opinion on the genre. Of the five pieces I didn’t recommend, Beachworld fared the poorest. 75% is a pretty good win rate, although it’s not quite as good a number as I posted for Night Shift. I recommended fifteen of the twenty-two pieces on offer in Skeleton Crew, and if you take away the two pieces of poetry (which probably shouldn’t count towards the total anyway) that’s fifteen out of twenty. It also feels less cohesive than that first book – more a bunch of stories put together than anything truly united. Overall, it is a decent book, although if I had to put it side by side with Night Shift, it would probably come up a little short. 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.Skeleton Crew came out in 1985 and was the second collection of short stories Stephen King published. If you were stunned by Gremlins, the Fornits of 'The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet' will knock your socks off. Ī boy's sanity is pushed to the edge when he's left alone with the odious corpse of 'Gramma'.

The most sublime woman driver on earth offers a man 'Mrs. There are some things in attics which are better left alone, things like 'The Monkey'. Touch 'The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands,' and say your prayers. In the book-length story 'The Mist,' a supermarket becomes the last bastion of humanity as a peril beyond dimension invades the earth.

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. 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!Įvil 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.

Stories in skeleton crew