Skeleton Crew by Stephen KingMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
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!
In The Mist, a supermarket becomes the last bastion of humanity as a peril beyond dimension invades the earth
Touch The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands, and say your prayers.
There are some things in attics that are better left alone - things like The Monkey.
The most sublime woman driver on earth offers a man Mrs. Todd's Shortcut> to paradise.
A boy's sanity is pushed to the edge when he's left alone with the odious corpse of Gramma.
If you were stunned by Gremlins, the Fornits of The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet will knock your socks off.
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 probably isn't the best of Stephen King's short story anthologies, nor is it my personal favourite but it does contain two of (in my opinion) his best, these being Mrs Todd's Shortcut and The Reach.
I love the daring and love once lost in the sci-fi of the first. Not to mention the obvious connections with King's epic Gunslinger series. In the second I love the feeling of a community so close it's almost like family and the satisfaction from staying in one place for your entire life, something I never managed myself.
I can recommend this both as a book to read and hold and the audiobook to listen to on a rainy train journey.
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