Skeleton Crew: Stories

This book is very, very good, some of my favourite short stories are in here. The Mist is awesome, but I think Inlike the Raft best. There are a lot of interesting terrors in this one, and I love it through and through.

Reading Skeleton Crew slowly for over a year now, using it as a bridge between various other novels and such to help with my SK addiction, I can say Skeleton Crew serves as possibly the best sampling of Stephen King considering the diversity and length it gives, all for under $10. The collection features a full novel, nineteen short stories, and even a couple poems to mix things up. One can see that this really does include so much of the best from SK when so many of these stories later ended up being adapted into TV show episodes or even movies. Some notables include... The headlining feature of Skeleton Crew is certainly The Mist, which stands as one of his fan favorites, and even though it's shorter then most of his novels, he's able to still deliver on a great balance between tension, action, and character-development better than most of his 700+page novels. This story alone almost makes it worth the price, yet it only takes up a quarter of the collection. As many other reviewers note, Cain Rose Up sticks out awkwardly as a too simple and too violent story of a school shooting. It feels like it should actually be the end of a much more complex and interesting story (like Rage). The Jaunt is probably my favorite out of the whole collection for it's delivery on a interesting idea, and the resulting payoff at the end, it's also cool to read one from SK that delves into some fun sci-fi aspects. This whole story can be read online for free, so if nothing else, at least do that. The premise for Word Processor of the Gods is awesome enough, a homemade computer that is able to create anything into existence that is typed into it. However, I feel that this could've been made into something much bigger and better then it is, yet still stands as a good read. Nona felt the most like a SK story with a near excessive amount of characters that all felt like they should be part of a bigger story (which is why most of them later show up in other stories set in the same town). It still serves as a good read, especially if recently reading Body or Hearts in Atlantis. The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet takes some time to build up speed into a great disturbing yet subtlety comedic story. It's one of the longer and last stories in the collection and along with The Reach it's a great note to end on. Overall, I would recommend this collection for any SK fan, as it features many of his most popular and memorable works (especially in terms of works that are not full novels) might even be the best place for a newcomer of Stephen King to start.

Skeleton Crew is one of several books that collect Stephen King short stories. The first and longest is The Mist, a novella that starts with a sudden and dangerous storm and continues with a far more dangerous fog and what is hidden inside of it. I won't give away any more plot details but King did a masterful job of balancing the menace from outside forces with conflict among the human survivors. The Mist is the true standout in this collection and it's worth the price of the book just to get it. The second longest story is The Monkey, and it also happened to be my second favorite in the book. A man is terrorized by a cymbal-clapping windup monkey that he believes has been responsible for a number of deaths since he was a young boy. This is his struggle to be rid of the thing to save himself and his family. It's a simple story, but a creepy one and a good example of what a short story should be. Over 20 stories are presented here of varying quality. Most of them run between 20 to 30 pages so even if you don't fall in love with some of them, it's not like you've invested too much time. I found nearly all of them to be reasonably entertaining and several to be well above average. The book is well worth buying and I would recommend it to all Stephen King fans willing to read him in small doses.

This is an A+ classic by King, bought it to replace previous copy that was lost over the years. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the stories again, this is timeless reading.

Skeleton Crew is an excellent collection of Stories! The Mist has a lot of Lovecraft elements as the tentacles from planet x, the pterodactyl and the spiders. The Jaunt is a Sci-fi story about teleportation to Mars. The Raft talks about an oil slick , an unknowable force that drags them all into the lake. And Gramma had been a witch like the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz, that says bad spells as Yogsoggoth. Certainly Lovecraft would be proud of Stephen King. I admire the craftiness and the writing of Stephen King.

Stephen king: the name says it all. Genuine and all pervading horror.

Loved reading these short stories.

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Je connais le plupart des histoires. Heureusement ma memoire n'est pas très étanche. Il y avait aussi les parties non connus. Fan de Stephen King, je lis QUE cet ecrivain, en anglais pour ne rien perdre lors de la traduction, je peux dire que, encore une fois, je me suis bien amusé avec ce livre.