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- Complete And Unabridged Audiobook -
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Read by Jim Syger., v% q! l$ G$ Q! i0 s& g4 i# L: L% ?
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The collection features 22 works. Including nineteen short stories, a ; s2 ?2 ^/ e; l, }
novella (114 pages, hardback), "The Mist," and two poems: "Paranoid: A Chant" and "For Owen".$ I: e8 |5 Q% w7 `4 k1 B2 D# T6 @
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.
9 s: f4 E6 ?) v8 R7 g' yThe 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).
; S6 J9 f6 s1 y4 s$ lAlthough 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.
3 A+ i* K9 h" f6 `( ~6 q, d6 |Skeleton Crew is critically held as showing King as a maturing writer with greater breadth and depth than his previous short works.
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