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Stephen King: Skeleton Crew (Paperback, 1993, Time Warner Books Uk)

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The Master at his scarifying best! From heart-pounding terror to the …

Review of 'Skeleton Crew' on 'Goodreads'

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.