Skeleton Crew

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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 diabolicalKing 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.