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Skeleton Crew : Stories

Includes the story “The Monkey”—now a major motion picture!

The #1 New York Times bestseller—a mesmerizing treasury of short stories by Stephen King.

An eerie-looking child’s toy harbors an unimaginable evil. A supermarket is unexpectedly the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. An idyllic lake conceals a bottomless terror. And a desert island is the scene of the most frightening struggle for survival ever waged.

Featuring the short story “The Monkey” (now a major motion picture) and the novella “The Mist,” which was both a feature film and television series, as well as many other haunting now classic tales, this magnificent collection is enduring and irresistible proof that Stephen King is a true master of the short story form.

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”


Author:

  • Stephen King

Narrators:

  • Stephen King
  • Dylan Baker
  • Kyle Beltran
  • Matthew Broderick
  • Norbert Leo Butz
  • Michael C. Hall
  • Paul Giamatti
  • Dana Ivey
  • Will Patton
  • Robert Petkoff
  • David Morse
  • Lois Smith
  • Frances Sternhagen

Format:

  • Audiobook
  • E-book

Duration:

  • 22 h 29 min
  • 618 pages

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Fiction
  • Short stories

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    Stephen King

    Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

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