An edition of Skeleton Crew (1985)

Skeleton Crew

1st Signet printing (6)
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An edition of Skeleton Crew (1985)

Skeleton Crew

1st Signet printing (6)
  • 4.35 ·
  • 23 Ratings
  • 382 Want to read
  • 21 Currently reading
  • 55 Have read

Welcome to the world of terror! Let the one and only Stephen King take you into a wold where a macabre mist traps humanity in its swirling horror…where a beautiful young girl offers satanic seduction…where a child’s toy becomes the ultimate instrument of evil…where a man is given a devilish machine that grans him godlike powers…where nothing is what it seems and nowhere is safe…

Stephen King takes you into this world—and the skill that makes him the most spellbinding storyteller of our time will not let you escape before the final fearful turn of the page.
—back cover

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
573

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1986-06, New American Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Signet printing (6)
Cover of: Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew
1986-06, New American Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Signet printing (1)
Cover of: Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew
1986-06, New American Library
Mass Market Paperback in English - 1st Signet printing (1)
Cover of: Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew
1986, Futura
Paperback in English

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New York, USA

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.

Edition Notes

"A Signet book."

Series
Signet -- AE 4293
Copyright Date
1985

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3561.I5746 S55 1986

The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
573 p. ;
Number of pages
573

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24586703M
Internet Archive
skeletoncre00king
ISBN 10
0451142934
ISBN 13
9780451142931
OCLC/WorldCat
13573310, 492921305
Google
8Klpksh_bbsC
Goodreads
848455

Work Description

From the Flap:

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.
(source)



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

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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