Skeleton Crew - Stephen King

Written by Stephen King
Read by Jim Syger
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

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) 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.

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Previously unpublished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Previously unpublished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Previously unpublished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