Stephen King 
Skeleton Crew 

Includes the stories ‚;Uncle Otto’s Truck‘ and ‚;Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut’set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine Features ‚;The Mist‘ now a TV series event on Spike 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.‘;Wildly imaginative, delightfully diabolical King once again proves to be the consummate storyteller‘ (The Associated Press). 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‘ -‚;The Reach‘ 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.