Robert reviewed Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
Review of 'Skeleton Crew' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Stories are rated 1-4:
1 I would recommend avoid reading this
2 Not great
3 I enjoyed it. I would casually recommend a king or horror fan read this.
4 I would recommend everyone read this.
The Mist [4]
Mist rolls over a small town bring an array of unsettling creatures. Outstanding. It reads like the novelisation of Doom. It also feels like a zombie movie. Man is as great a danger as the monsters.
Here There Be Tygers [2]
A boy meets a tiger in the bathroom.
The Monkey [4]
A possessed monkey toy has the power to kill. Showing again that King is pretty good with the possessed object stories.
Cain rose up [1]
A college kid goes shooting. I could barely remember this a day after I read it and had to check Wikipedia to remind myself of the plot.
Mrs Tod’s Shortcut [3]
Mrs Tod finds …
Stories are rated 1-4:
1 I would recommend avoid reading this
2 Not great
3 I enjoyed it. I would casually recommend a king or horror fan read this.
4 I would recommend everyone read this.
The Mist [4]
Mist rolls over a small town bring an array of unsettling creatures. Outstanding. It reads like the novelisation of Doom. It also feels like a zombie movie. Man is as great a danger as the monsters.
Here There Be Tygers [2]
A boy meets a tiger in the bathroom.
The Monkey [4]
A possessed monkey toy has the power to kill. Showing again that King is pretty good with the possessed object stories.
Cain rose up [1]
A college kid goes shooting. I could barely remember this a day after I read it and had to check Wikipedia to remind myself of the plot.
Mrs Tod’s Shortcut [3]
Mrs Tod finds a shortcut. And another. And another. Sort of sad.
The Jaunt [4]
A father explains teleportation to his family. Sci-Fi
The Wedding Gig [3]
A gangster gets mown down. No supernatural events.
Paranoid: a chant [1]
Unreadable.
Word Processor of the Gods [4]
A writer re-evaluates his family.
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands [3]
In a gentlemen's club, a man enters who has the opposite of the Midas touch.
Beachworld [2]
Crash landing on an out of the way planet the survivors had to deal with the sand. It gets ever where. I think this would be a but I hate the final paragraph.
The Reaper's Image [2]
So forgettable I forgot it. An antiquities dealer goes mirror shopping.
Nona [3]
Bonnie and Clyde, on Bonnie is a Psychic rat creature.
For Owen [1]
A poem.
Survivor Type [2]
A surgeon takes extreme measures when lost on a deserted island.
Uncle Otto's Truck [3]
Stephen King returns to the world of possessed cars yet another time.
Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1) [1]
A murderous milkman makes deliveries.
Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman #2) [3]
A vehicle inspection is required.
Gramma [4]
A boy is left alone with is grandmother. Hijinks Ensue. My favourite in the book easily, though I actually was considering skipping it in the first few pages.
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet [4]
Fornit Some Fornus. An editor feeds of a writers insanity.
The Reach [2]
An old lady finally leaves the island she has never left before.
