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Skeleton Crew
- 573 pages · about 10 hours
- First published 1985
- 73 editions
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1 About this book
Skeleton Crew, published in 1985, is a collection of short fiction by Stephen King. It gathers twenty-two pieces: eighteen short stories, two poems and two novellas, The Mist, in which a supermarket becomes a refuge when something terrible arrives outside, and The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet. Among the stories are The Monkey and The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands. King introduces the book himself, in his usual conversational manner, and closes it with notes on how several of the stories came to be written.
- Horror
- Magic
- Fantasy
- Fantasy, short stories
- Fantasy, collections & anthologies
- Novella
- Alcoholism
- Anecdotes
2 What to expect
A big collection of Stephen King's shorter fiction: twenty-two pieces, led by the novella The Mist. The range is wide, from monster stories and science fiction to quieter, stranger tales and two poems, and the quality varies as it does in any collection this size. Several of the stories are very gruesome, and King's chatty introduction and closing notes frame the whole.
Good for readers who want: horror short stories, a Stephen King sampler, and a book to read a tale at a time.
3 About Stephen King
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
4 More by Stephen King
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