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Skeleton Crew

Stories collected

Title

Originally published in

The Mist

Dark Forces (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Previously unpublished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 (1981)

Beachworld

Fall 1984 issue of Weird Tales

The Reaper's Image

Spring 1969 issue of Startling Mystery Stories

Nona

Shadows (1978)

For Owen

Previously unpublished

Survivor Type

Terrors (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Previously unpublished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 (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

Overview

The collection features 22 works, which includes nineteen short stories, a novella ("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 "The Reaper's Image" (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 collection also features some more personal works, including "For Owen", the poem he wrote for his son, and "Gramma" a horrific tale from an eleven-year old boy's perspective that seems to recall King's own horrors living with his invalid grandmother .

Of one of the stories in the collection, King says: "As far as short stories are concerned, I like the grisly ones the best. However the story "Survivor Type" goes a little bit too far, even for me."

Adaptations

Film and television

"The Raft" was adapted as a segment of the 1987 New World Pictures anthology film Creepshow 2, with a script by George A. Romero, and directed by Michael Gornic.

"Word Processor of the Gods" (1984 Laurel TV, directed by Michael Gornic) was a 22-minute episode of Tales from the Darkside.

"Gramma" (1986 CBS/MGM-UA, directed by Bradford May) was a 21-minute episode of The New Twilight Zone written by Harlan Ellison.

The Mist (2007 The Weinstein Company, written/directed by Frank Darabont) was adapted into the film The Mist, which was released on November 21, 2007.

Dollar Baby adaptations

The following stories have been adapted as Dollar Baby short films:

Here There Be Tygers (1988) by Guy Maddin

Paranoid (2000) by Jay Holben

Here There Be Tygers (2003) by James Cochrane

The Jaunt (2007) by Todd Gorman

Other media adaptations

The Mist was adapted into a text-based computer game by Mindscape Software.

The Mist was adapted as a 90-minute full-cast audio recording in 1986 in "3-D Sound" from ZBS Productions, released by Simon & Schuster, Inc..

References

^ King, Stephen, "Introduction" to Skeleton Crew, Putnam Press 1985 pp. 13

^ Collings, Michael R., The Annotated Guide to Stephen King, Starmount Press, 1986, pp.25

^ Beahm, George, The Stephen King Companion, Andrews and McNeel, 1989, pp. 271

^ Spignesi, Stephen J. The Essential Stephen King, New Page Books, 2001, pp. 232

^ Grant, Charles L. "Interview with Stephen King " Monsterland Magazine, May/June, 1985.

See also

Dollar Baby

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Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

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"

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The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

Novels: The Gunslinger The Drawing of the Three The Waste Lands Wizard and Glass Wolves of the Calla Song of Susannah The Dark Tower The Wind Through the Keyhole

Short stories: "The Gunslinger" "The Way Station" "The Oracle and the Mountains" "The Slow Mutants" "The Gunslinger and the Dark Man" "The Little Sisters of Eluria"

Comics: The Gunslinger Born The Long Road Home Treachery The Sorcerer The Fall of Gilead

Ka-tets

Roland Deschain Jake Chambers Eddie Dean Susannah Dean Oy Father Callahan

Cuthbert Allgood Alain Johns Jamie De Curry

The Red

Crimson King Randall Flagg John Farson Mordred Deschain Rhea of the Cos Eldred Jonas

Other characters

Patrick Danville Stephen King Bryan Smith Sheemie Ruiz Blaine the Mono Calvin Tower Dinky Earnshaw Andrew Quick Steven Deschain Ted Brautigan

Races

Can-toi Old Ones Slow mutants Taheen Vampires

Places

All-World Devar-Toi Lud Calla Bryn Sturgis

Organizations

North Central Positronics Sombra Corporation Tet Corporation

Glossary

Ka Slo-Trans

High Speech

Related books

'Salem's Lot The Stand The Talisman Skeleton Crew It The Eyes of the Dragon Insomnia Rose Madder Desperation The Regulators Bag of Bones Hearts in Atlantis Black House Everything's Eventual From a Buick 8

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Works of Stephen King

Novels

Carrie (1974) 'Salem's Lot (1975) The Shining (1977) The Stand (1978) The Dead Zone (1979) Firestarter (1980) Cujo (1981) Christine (1983) Pet Sematary (1983) Cycle of the Werewolf (1983) The Talisman (1984; with Peter Straub) It (1986) The Eyes of the Dragon (1987) Misery (1987) The Tommyknockers (1987) The Dark Half (1989) Needful Things (1991) Gerald's Game (1992) Dolores Claiborne (1992) Insomnia (1994) Rose Madder (1995) The Green Mile (1996) Desperation (1996) Bag of Bones (1998) The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) Dreamcatcher (2001) Black House (2001; with Peter Straub) From a Buick 8 (2002) The Colorado Kid (2005) Cell (2006) Lisey's Story (2006) Duma Key (2008) Under the Dome (2009) Doctor Sleep (TBA)

The Dark Tower series

The Gunslinger (1982) The Drawing of the Three (1987) The Waste Lands (1991) Wizard and Glass (1997) Wolves of the Calla (2003) Song of Susannah (2004) The Dark Tower (2004) The Wind Through the Keyhole (TBA)

Richard Bachman novels

Rage (1977) The Long Walk (1979) Roadwork (1981) The Running Man (1982) Thinner (1984) The Bachman Books (1985) The Regulators (1996) Blaze (2007)

Short fiction collections

Night Shift (1978) Different Seasons (1982) Skeleton Crew (1985) Four Past Midnight (1990) Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993) Hearts in Atlantis (1999) Everything's Eventual (2002) Just After Sunset (2008) Full Dark, No Stars (2010)

Non-fiction

Danse Macabre (1981) Nightmares in the Sky (1988) On Writing (2000) Secret Windows (2000) Faithful (2004; with Stewart O'Nan)

E-books

Riding the Bullet (2000) The Plant (2000; unfinished) Ur (2009)

Screenplays

Creepshow (1982) Cat's Eye (1985) Silver Bullet (1985) Maximum Overdrive (1986; also director) Pet Sematary (1989) Sleepwalkers (1992) Cell (TBA)

Teleplays

Sorry, Right Number (1988) Golden Years (1991) The Stand (1994) The Shining (1997) Chinga (1998; with Chris Carter) Storm of the Century (1999) Rose Red (2002) Kingdom Hospital (2004) Desperation (2006)

Collaborations with musicians

Ghosts (1997; with Michael Jackson) Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (2010; with John Mellencamp) Black Ribbons (2010; with Shooter Jennings)

Graphic novels

Creepshow (1982) The Dark Tower (2007) The Stand (2008) The Talisman (2009) American Vampire (2010) N. (2010)

Unpublished novels

The Aftermath (1963) Sword in the Darkness (1970) The House on Value Street (1974) The Cannibals (1983; 1989)

Unpublished works by Stephen King Media based on Stephen King works Tabitha King Naomi King Joe Hill Owen King Bryan Smith Peter Straub Rock Bottom Remainders Dollar Baby Jerusalem's Lot Castle Rock, Maine Derry, Maine The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red

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