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. “Big Wheels: a Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No. “The Raft”- “Word Processor of the Gods” This “wonderfully gruesome” collection ( The New York Times Book Review) includes:

And a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil. A woman driving a Jaguar finds a scary shortcut to paradise. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. “Wildly imaginative, delightfully diabolical…King once again proves to be the consummate storyteller” (The Associated Press).Ī supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. 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. Todd’s Shortcut”-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maineįeatures “The Mist” now a TV series event on Spike Trucks that punish and beautiful teen demons who seduce a young man to massacre curses whose malevolence grows through the years obscene presences and angels of grace-here, indeed, is a night-blooming bouquet of chills and thrills.Includes the stories “Uncle Otto’s Truck” and “Mrs. If you were stunned by Gremlins, the Fornits of 'The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet' will knock your socks off.

Ī boy's sanity is pushed to the edge when he's left alone with the odious corpse of 'Gramma'. The most sublime woman driver on earth offers a man 'Mrs. There are some things in attics which are better left alone, things like 'The Monkey'. Touch 'The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands,' and say your prayers.

In the book-length story 'The Mist,' a supermarket becomes the last bastion of humanity as a peril beyond dimension invades the earth. In the tradition of Poe and Stevenson, of Lovecraft and The Twilight Zone, Stephen King has fused images of fear as old as time with the iconography of contemporary American life to create his own special brand of horror-one that has kept millions of readers turning the pages even as they gasp. The Master at his scarifying best! From heart-pounding terror to the eeriest of whimsy-tales from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time!Įvil that breathes and walks and shrieks, brave new worlds and horror shows, human desperation bursting into deadly menace-such are the themes of these astounding works of fiction.

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