Front Cover
Core Fiction Hardcover
Novella Collection
1985
Skeleton Crew
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Synopsis
The Mist: A sudden unnatural fog traps shoppers in a supermarket while unknown creatures gather outside.
Here There Be Tygers: A schoolboy's trip to the bathroom becomes a strange encounter.
The Monkey: A toy monkey appears linked to a family's recurring deaths.
Cain Rose Up: A college student reaches a dangerous breaking point.
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut: A woman's obsession with finding faster routes leads somewhere beyond ordinary roads.
The Jaunt: Space travel depends on teleportation, but one family learns why travellers must remain unconscious.
The Wedding Gig: A band hired for a gangster's wedding witnesses humiliation and revenge.
Paranoid: A Chant: A fearful narrator records a world of surveillance and suspicion.
The Raft: Four students become stranded on a lake with a predatory presence.
Word Processor of the Gods: A writer receives a machine that can alter reality.
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands: A cursed man avoids physical contact at all costs.
Beachworld: A survivor on a desert planet becomes dangerously attached to the sand.
The Reaper's Image: An antique mirror carries a disturbing history.
Nona: A drifter recounts a violent journey with a mysterious young woman.
For Owen: A brief poem follows a child's imaginative walk to school.
Survivor Type: A stranded surgeon records the extremes he accepts to stay alive.
Uncle Otto's Truck: An old truck becomes the focus of a man's fatal obsession.
Morning Deliveries: A milkman's route hides a series of cruel surprises.
Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game: Two intoxicated workers search for an inspection sticker during a dangerous night.
Gramma: A boy left alone with his bedridden grandmother confronts family secrets.
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet: A writer's belief in tiny hidden beings spreads to those around him.
The Reach: An elderly islander faces a final crossing over frozen water.
Here There Be Tygers: A schoolboy's trip to the bathroom becomes a strange encounter.
The Monkey: A toy monkey appears linked to a family's recurring deaths.
Cain Rose Up: A college student reaches a dangerous breaking point.
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut: A woman's obsession with finding faster routes leads somewhere beyond ordinary roads.
The Jaunt: Space travel depends on teleportation, but one family learns why travellers must remain unconscious.
The Wedding Gig: A band hired for a gangster's wedding witnesses humiliation and revenge.
Paranoid: A Chant: A fearful narrator records a world of surveillance and suspicion.
The Raft: Four students become stranded on a lake with a predatory presence.
Word Processor of the Gods: A writer receives a machine that can alter reality.
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands: A cursed man avoids physical contact at all costs.
Beachworld: A survivor on a desert planet becomes dangerously attached to the sand.
The Reaper's Image: An antique mirror carries a disturbing history.
Nona: A drifter recounts a violent journey with a mysterious young woman.
For Owen: A brief poem follows a child's imaginative walk to school.
Survivor Type: A stranded surgeon records the extremes he accepts to stay alive.
Uncle Otto's Truck: An old truck becomes the focus of a man's fatal obsession.
Morning Deliveries: A milkman's route hides a series of cruel surprises.
Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game: Two intoxicated workers search for an inspection sticker during a dangerous night.
Gramma: A boy left alone with his bedridden grandmother confronts family secrets.
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet: A writer's belief in tiny hidden beings spreads to those around him.
The Reach: An elderly islander faces a final crossing over frozen water.
Verification Summary
Verified Edition
Copyright evidence identifies the Putnam first trade edition with the complete 1 through 10 number line and ISBN 0-399-13039-3. This edition contains twenty-two works, led by the novella The Mist. It is distinct from the Scream Press limited edition.