Stephen King Top 10: Skeleton Crew King, The Mist Book

Actors: William Sadler, Chris Owen
Studio: Genius Products (TVN)
DVD Release Date: March 25, 2008
Rating: R

Top 10: Number 10 - Skeleton Crew including The Mist

Skeleton Crew contains 22 works by Stephen King. The Mist, a novella included in the Skeleton Crew book, has been published as a separate book also. With Skeleton Crew, you get that novella, along with nineteen other fiction short stories and two poems.

When you want to read some Stephen King but don't have a lot of time just then, a short story from the book Skeleton Crew could satisfy.

The titles are:

"The Mist" (novella)
"Here There Be Tygers"
"The Monkey"
"Cain Rose Up"
"Mrs. Todd's Shortcut"
"The Jaunt"
"The Wedding Gig"
"Paranoid: A Chant" (poem)
"The Raft"
"Word Processor of the Gods"
"The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands"
"Beachworld"
"The Reaper's Image"
"Nona"
"For Owen" (poem)
"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"

Some of these titles had been previously published in magazines such as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Gallery, Redbook and Yankee. Skeleton Crew gathered these previously published Stephen King stories together in one book.

Movie Based on a Novella in the Skeleton Crew Book:
Stephen King's novella (about a fog trapping a group of people in a grocery store) has been adapted into the thriller movie The Mist by director Frank Darabont.