Skeleton Crew

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Matthew Broderick, Michael C. Hall, Paul Giamatti, Will Patton, Norbert Leo Butz, Lois Smith, Dylan Baker

Length: 22 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

Narrated by Stephen King, Matthew Broderick, Michael C. Hall, Paul Giamatti, Will Patton, Norbert Leo Butz, Lois Smith, Dylan Baker, Kyle Beltran, Dana Ivey, Robert Petkoff, David Morse, and Frances Sternhagen.

The master at his scarifying best! From heart-pounding terror to the eeriest of whimsy - tales from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time!

In "The Mist", a supermarket becomes the last bastion of humanity as a peril beyond dimension invades the earth.

Touch "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands", and say your prayers.

There are some things in attics that are better left alone - things like "The Monkey".

The most sublime woman driver on earth offers a man "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" to paradise.

A boy's sanity is pushed to the edge when he's left alone with the odious corpse of "Gramma".

If you were stunned by Gremlins, the Fornits of "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" will knock your socks off.

Trucks that punish and beautiful teen demons who seduce a young man to massacre; curses whose malevolence grows through the years; obscene presences and angels of grace - here, indeed, is a night-blooming bouquet of chills and thrills.

©2016 Stephen King (P)2016 Simon & Schuster Audio

Michael C. Hall and Norbert Leo Butz - awesome

Overall, this is pretty good, even though I already have these stories in other Audible releases. The Raft is one of my favorites so I didn't mind hearing this one again. I didn't give it five stars all across the board because of that, and also, there are so many stories and while I loved many of them, there were a few that didn't quite do it for it me the first time I listened through it. I've listened several times now (gets me through the day) and a couple of those iffy ones improved upon a second listen. I was really impressed with Beachworld. Michael C. Hall nailed that one. I wish he could have narrated the Dexter novels, but since the Showtime series was a little bit different, I guess it's appropriate someone else narrated those, but I digress. (And, BTW, the narration job on the Dexter novels was not bad - the author did a good job with that). The point is, Michael C. Hall is a super performer. Also, Norbert Leo Butz did a great job with Nona and Survivor Type. He was perfectly creepy in Nona, and Survivor Type is one of the most horrific situations I can imagine, and I'm glad that the story wasn't ruined with an inept narrator. The short story Gramma had notably cheesy music with it, which reminded me of an 80's B horror film. Cain Rose Up was one of the stories that I just didn't like - it was just sort of incomplete, blah, boring. The story about the tiger in the bathroom seemed stupid at first, but it did make me smile at one point. Overall, there are some stories/performances that are really good, and made up for the ones that didn't seem to be all that great at first.

Good variation!

I greatly enjoyed all of the various stories and narrators. I especially loved listening to Stephen King narrate one of his own pieces! However, some of these pieces were just not for me and I just forwarded through them when I found myself wondering away. Despite that, this was an awesome read/listen!

Not his best works! 😒

These stories have a Stephen King flavor but watered down. Not even close to his best.

Very enthralling

The different stories had a wonderful life of their own. I got very lost as I listened to each one. The will suck you in and you can completely lose yourself. There were some that were a bit too much to take- the one about the college student, for example, was very shocking. Overall, I really enjoyed listening to them and the cast of narrators was very good. All read the stories to the degree that incant imagine them sounding any better.

ive listen to Stephen King all time not his best s

ive listen to Stephen King books all time some more than once. this was not his best stuff

king captured my interest as always.

As always King doesn't disappoint. look forward to the next adventure. I had not even heard of the majority of these stories. Good read.

Addicted to his audible books

There were some good ones on here, although I could have done without the last two. I enjoyed it and although it's not as good as Full Dark No Stars, I'm glad I purchased it

Great collection of stories.

I really enjoyed most of the stories here. Some stories were weird or not very interesting but those are only few. Great narration. Especially loved Michael C Hall and narration of Mist and Raft.

The King of Short Stories

Thank you Stephen King! Another wonderful adventure of story telling! You're short stories amaze and chill to the bone....

Read as a kid... Still great !

I've been a fan of King for a while and 2020 seemed like a good time to revisit the old stuff
... Like The Stand and Captain Tripps !😳