An edition of Skeleton Crew (1985)

Stephen King's Skeleton crew

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An edition of Skeleton Crew (1985)

Stephen King's Skeleton crew

Limited 1st ed.
  • 4.35 ·
  • 23 Ratings
  • 373 Want to read
  • 21 Currently reading
  • 55 Have read

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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!

Evil 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. 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.

In the book-length story "The Mist," a supermarket becomes the last bastion of humanity as a peril beyond dimension invades the earth. . .

Touch "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands," and say your prayers . . .

There are some things in attics which are better left alone, things like "The Monkey" . . .

The most sublime woman driver on earth offers a man "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" to paradise . . .

A boy's sanity is pushed to the edge when he's left alone with the odious corpse of "Gramma" . . .

If you were stunned by Gremlins, the Fornits of "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" will knock your socks off . . .

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.
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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
  • 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
Publish Date
Publisher
Scream Press
Language
English
Pages
545

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2004?, Signet
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1996?, Signet
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1991?, Signet
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Skeleton Crew
1986, Futura
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1986-06, New American Library
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Skeleton Crew
1986-06, New American Library
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Cover of: Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew
1986-06, New American Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Signet printing (1)
Cover of: Stephen King's Skeleton crew
Stephen King's Skeleton crew
1985, Scream Press
in English - Limited 1st ed.

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Book Details


Published in

Santa Cruz, Calif

Edition Notes

"Published by arrangement with New American Library and the Putnam Publishing Group"--Verso of t.p.
"This volume is one of one thousand copies, signed on the facing page in silver ink by the author and artist"--Colophon.

Other Titles
Skeleton crew.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3561.I483 S55 1985b

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 545 p., [1] col. leaf of plates :
Number of pages
545

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2282918M
ISBN 10
0910489122
LCCN
86148341
OCLC/WorldCat
13772239
Library Thing
24369
Goodreads
3034515

Excerpts

Leute werden als Diebe, Ehebrecher, Wilddiebe und Betrüger gebrandmarkt, auf Grund von völlig fadenscheinigen Beweisen und wildesten Spekulationen. Ich glaube, dass das nur deshalb nicht ganz und gar bösartig wird, weil der landläufige Tratsch in den Lebensmittelgeschäften und Friseursalons meistens merkwürdig naiv ist. Man könnte meinen, dass diese Leute Gemeinheit und Liederlichkeit erwarten, ja, sie sogar erfinden, wenn es sie nicht gibt, aber dass das wirkliche und offenkundige Böse ihre Vorstellungskraft übersteigt, selbst wenn es genau vor ihren Augen schwebt wie so ein böser Zauberteppich aus einem Kameltreibermärchen.
Page 265-267, added by bitnapper.

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