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Synopsis
Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of tales from the modern master of horror
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Review
In the introduction to Skeleton Crew, his second collection of stories, King pokes fun at his penchant for "literary elephantiasis," makes scatological jokes about his muse, confesses how much money he makes (gross and net), and tells a story about getting arrested once when he was "suffused with the sort of towering, righteous rage that only drunk undergraduates can feel." He winds up with an invitation to a scary voyage: "Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way."
And he certainly does. Skeleton Crew contains a superb novella ("The Mist") that alone is worth the price of admission, plus two forgettable poems and 20 short stories on such themes as an evil toy monkey, a human-eating water slick, a machine that avenges murder, and unnatural creatures that inhabit the thick woods near Castle Rock, Maine. The short tales range from simply enjoyable to surprisingly good.
In addition to "The Mist," the real standout is "The Reach," a beautifully subtle story about a great-grandmother who was born on a small island off the coast of Maine and has lived there her whole life. She has never been across "the Reach," the body of water between island and mainland. This is the story that King fans give to their friends who don't read horror in order to show them how literate, how charming a storyteller he can be. Don't miss it. --Fiona Webster
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Liable to leave the reader in a state of shock (Sunday Telegraph)
Deliciously scary (Cosmopolitan)
As a storyteller King is unbeatable (Mirror)
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Hardback. Condition: Fair. Who could imagine ? In this brilliant collection of twenty-two stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine . A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction a trip to the attic turns into a journey to hell a woman driver finds a very 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. Features the novella The Mist Now a major motion picture. Seller Inventory # CIN039913039XA
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