Skeleton Crew
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The Ballad of The Flexible Bullet" which was completed in 1983
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Skeleton Crew is critically held as showing King as a maturing writer
[}}#endnote_Beahm] with greater breadth and depth than his previous short works
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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 perspetive that seems to recall King's own horrors living with his invalid grandmother
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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."
[}}#endnote_kinggrant]The book contains the following stories:
* "
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 #1)"
* "
Big Wheels: A Tale of The Laundry Game (Milkman #2)"
* "
Gramma"
* "
The Ballad of The Flexible Bullet"
* "
The Reach"
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.
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
*
Home Delivery: Servicio a Domicilio (2005) by Elio Quiroga
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..
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^ - 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.
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