Skeleton Crew (Signet)
by Stephen King
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Author: Stephen KingEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Published: 1986-06-03
ISBN: 0451168615
Number of pages: 576
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: Good!
Summary: 4 Stars
I've always liked books of short stories, because you don't need to stay invested for 300+ pages if you have other things going on. You can pick it up and set it down without feeling like you'll miss something, or forget an important element when you have to stay away for weeks while class is in session or other priorities have you running.
This is a noteworthy collection of shorts by one of the masters of storytelling. Stand-outs in my opinion include The Mist, The Jaunt, and The Raft, but there's interest to be found throughout. Some of the very short ones such as Cain Rose Up, which almost seems like an exercise in some parts, read well nonetheless and draw you in to the tale, considering they're only a few pages in length.
Bottom line for me: not all of the stories will bowl the reader over, but there's certainly a lot of good to be found in these pages.
Summary of Skeleton Crew (Signet)
In the introduction to Skeleton Crew (1985), 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 one time 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 sure does. Skeleton Crew contains a superb short novel ("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
Twenty-two stories from the "wildly imaginative" #1 Bestselling Author
In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine....A supermarket becomes the place where humanity takes its last stand against unholy destruction...a trip to the attic turns into a journey to hell...a woman driver 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.
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