Skeleton Crew

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. <br> Wildly imaginative, delightfully diabolical King once again proves to be the consummate storyteller (The Associated Press). <br>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; and The Reach. <br>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."