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Stephen King's #1 New York Times bestseller--an anthology of stories from the outer limits of the imagination!

From one of the greatest storytellers in modern times comes this classic collection of twenty-two works of fright and wonder...unforgettable tales that will take you to where your darkest fears await. Whether it's a mysterious impenetrable mist camouflaging bizarre, otherworldly terrors that could herald the destruction of humanity...or an eerie-looking child's toy that harbors an unimaginable evil...or four college students on a deserted lake encountering something that crosses the boundary of sanity...or a man suddenly given the omnipotent ability to quite literally edit his own reality...the extraordinary narratives found in Skeleton Crew are the enduring and irresistible proof that Stephen King is a true master of the short fiction form.

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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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