Skeleton Crew - Stories

Zusatztext “Stunning! ingenious…Stephen King at the very top of his talent.” Informationen zum Autor Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes  Never Flinch  (May 2025), the short story collection  You Like It Darker ( a New York Times Book Review  top ten horror book of 2024),  Holly  (a  New York Times  Notable Book of 2023),  Fairy Tale ,  Billy Summers ,  If It Bleeds ,  The Institute ,  Elevation ,  The Outsider ,  Sleeping Beauties  (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy:  End of Watch ,  Finders Keepers , and  Mr. Mercedes  (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel  11/22/63  was named a top ten book of 2011 by  The New York Times Book Review  and won the  Los Angeles Times  Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works  The Dark Tower ,  It ,  Pet Sematary ,  Doctor Sleep , and  Firestarter  are the basis for major motion pictures, with  It  now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.  Klappentext Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of tales from the modern master of horror. Leseprobe Skeleton Crew VII. The First Night. Mr. McVey had worked in Bridgton cutting meat ever since I was twelve or thirteen, and I had no idea what his first name was or his age might be. He had set up a gas grill under one of the small exhaust fans—the fans were still now, but presumably they still gave some ventilation—and by 6:30 P.M. the smell of cooking chicken filled the market. Bud Brown didn’t object. It might have been shock, but more likely he had recognized the fact that his fresh meat and poultry wasn’t getting any fresher. The chicken smelled good, but not many people wanted to eat. Mr. McVey, small and spare and neat in his whites, cooked the chicken nevertheless and laid the pieces two by two on paper plates and lined them up cafeteria-style on top of the meat counter. Mrs. Turman brought Billy and me each a plate, garnished with helpings of deli potato salad. I ate as best I could, but Billy would not even pick at his. “You got to eat, big guy,” I said. “I’m not hungry,” he said, putting the plate aside. “You can’t get big and strong if you don’t—” Mrs. Turman, sitting slightly behind Billy, shook her head at me. “Okay,” I said. “Go get a peach and eat it, at least. ’Kay?” “What if Mr. Brown says something?” “If he says something, you come back and tell me.” “Okay, Dad.” He walked away slowly. He seemed to have shrunk somehow. It hurt my heart to see him walk that way. Mr. McVey went on cooking chicken, apparently not minding that only a few people were eating it, happy in the act of cooking. As I think I have said, there are all ways of handling a thing like this. You wouldn’t think it would be so, but it is. The mind is a monkey. Mrs. Turman and I sat halfway up the patent-medicines aisle. People were sitting in little groups all over the store. No one except Mrs. Carmody was sitting alone; even Myron and his buddy Jim were together—they were both passed out by the beer cooler. Six new men were watching the loopholes. One of them was Ollie, gnawing a leg of chicken and drinking a beer. The mop-handle t...

Product details

• Authors: Stephen King
• Publisher: Scribner USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781501143502
• ISBN: 978-1-5011-4350-2
• No. of pages: 672
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 212 mm x 38 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense