Includes the stories “Uncle Otto’s Pickup truck” and “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut”-established in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

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The #1 NY Occasions bestseller and winner of the 1986 Locus Award for Best Collection, Skeleton Staff is “Stephen Ruler at his very best” (The Denver Post)-a terrifying, mesmerizing collection of stories from the outer limits of 1 of the best imaginations of our time.

“Wildly imaginative, delightfully diabolical…King once about Skeleton Crew: Stories once again proves to be the consummate storyteller” (The Associated Press).

A supermarket becomes the place where mankind makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. A female generating a Jaguar finds a frightening shortcut to heaven. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless bad. And a desert isle is the scene of the very most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged. This “wonderfully gruesome” collection (THE BRAND NEW York Times Publication Review) contains:

-“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”- “Phrase Processor of the Gods”

-“THE PERSON Who Would Not really Shake Hands”

-“Beachworld”

-“The Reaper’s Picture”

-“non-a”

-“For Owen”

-“Survivor Type”

-“Uncle Otto’s Pickup truck”

-“Morning Deliveries (Milkman No. 1)”

-“Big Tires: a Tale from the Laundry Game (Milkman No. 2)”

-“Gramma”

-“The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet”

-“The Reach”

King is best known for his iconic, immersive long books, but he’s also a professional of the short story, which is a magnificent collection.