Skeleton Crew by Stephen King Book Review

 Skeleton Crew 

By Stephen King 

Published Year: 1985

Page Count: 690 pages

Medium Used: Paperback

Genre: Horror, Short Stories, Anthology, Thriller, 2026-read. 

The Mist (a novella of 190 pages length)

Rating: 5/5

Really frightening. All the more scary because it is so plausible. I mean some scientists tinkering with world dimensions and bringing in a host of other worldly, carnivorous creatures into ours? After a night of terrible storm that takes down power lines, damages houses and destroys roads and bridges, a fine mist seems to be slowly encroaching over the land. David, the narrator and protagonist, takes his son to the supermarket to restock their supplies. They get stranded there in the market for over four days because they realise that there are bugs and strange, monstrous creatures, out lurking and feeding on the flesh and blood of whoever makes the mistake of stepping amidst them. They spend that time, sealed up in the supermarket, struggling to contain their fears and nursing their failing hopes and courage. To make matters worse, there is a preacher of doom amongst them, sermoning about God wanting blood sacrifice to fall out of this predicament. Also the scenes describing the mutilation and death of those who become food to the creatures is haunting and harrowing to say the least. 

Definitely, one of the best horror, thriller stories on apocalypse like situation. The end is open to speculation and I feel there must be some hope. All apocalyptic stories have some remnant population, scattered across the world, recouping and repopulating right? Atleast the escaped guys, with David the boss, hold a gun handy if worst comes to worst and there is no hope left for them!!