Skeleton Crew by Stephen King - Complete & Unabridged Audiobook

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King



The collection features 22 works. Including nineteen short stories, a

novella (114 pages, hardback), "The Mist," and two poems: "Paranoid: A Chant" and "For Owen".



In addition to the introduction, in which King directly addresses his readers in his signature conversational style, Skeleton Crew features an epilogue of sorts entitled "Notes" wherein King discusses the origins of several stories in the collection.



The stories are collected from science-fiction and horror anthologies (Dark Forces, Shadows, Terrors, and New Terrors) genre magazine publications (Twilight Zone, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Startling Mystery Stories, Weirdbook and Fantasy and Science Fiction) and popular magazines (Redbook, Gallery, Yankee and Playboy).



Although published in 1985, the stories collected in Skeleton Crew span seventeen years from "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut " (King's second professional sale when he was just eighteen years old)[1] [2] to "The Ballad of The Flexible Bullet" which was completed in 1983.



Skeleton Crew is critically held as showing King as a maturing writer with greater breadth and depth than his previous short works [5].





Contains:



The Mist..............................................Dark Forces anthology (1980)



Here There Be Tygers...................................Spring 1968 issue of Ubris



The Monkey.........................................November 1980 issue of Gallery



Cain Rose Up...........................................Spring 1968 issue of Ubris



Mrs. Todd's Shortcut....................................May 1984 issue of Redbook



The Jaunt...........................June 1981 issue of The Twilight Zone Magazine



The Wedding Gig............December 1980 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine



Paranoid: A Chant..........................................Previously unpublished



The Raft...........................................November 1982 issue of Gallery



Word Processor of the Gods..........................January 1983 issue of Playboy



The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands.......................Shadows 4 anthology (1981)



Beachworld..........................................Fall 1984 issue of Weird Tales



The Reaper's Image..................Spring 1969 issue of Startling Mystery Stories



Nona......................................................Shadows anthology (1978)



For Owen....................................................Previously unpublished



Survivor Type..............................................Terrors anthology (1982)



Uncle Otto's Truck.....................................October 1983 issue of Yankee



Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)..............................Previously unpublished



Big Wheels: A Tale of The Laundry Game (Milkman #2)....New Terrors anthology (1980)



Gramma...............................................Spring 1984 issue of Weirdbook



The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet.....June 1984 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction



The Reach.............................................November 1981 issue of Yankee