Skeleton Crew - Stephen King

Category: Horror, Short Story
Language: English
Keywords: Horror Short Stories Stephen King
Written by Stephen King
Read by Jim Syger
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

Important note: This audiobook was recorded on audio cassettes. Unfortunately, the quality of the first cassette (sides 1 and 2, which is approximately the first half of the story “The Mist”) is rather terrible, but the rest is acceptable.

In this brilliant collection, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine… A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction…a trip to the attic turns into a journey to hell…a woman driver finds a very 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.

Published in 1985, this collection features 22 works, including a novella “The Mist”, 19 short stories and two poems: “Paranoid: A Chant” and “For Owen”.

In addition to the introduction, Skeleton Crew features an epilogue entitled “Notes” wherein King discusses the origins of several stories in the collection.

Table of contents:

- 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 #1)
- Big Wheels: A Tale of The Laundry Game (Milkman #2)
- Gramma
- The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
- The Reach