I find this so surprising because sooner or later any author, however moderately successful, tends to have their work adapted in other media. I particularly wanted to revisit this story because hey, in case you can’t tell, I really like video games and The Mist is one of the few King stories to have received a video game adaptation. My choice of Skeleton Crew for this Halloween’s reading material was not random, as it opens with King’s 1980 short story The Mist. I am, after all, a self-confessed horror nerd. It is true that some of his works have not aged brilliantly, but despite a lot of roughness, he remains undeniably one of my favorite authors of all time. Back in my crazy teenage years, I bunged all of King’s published catalog of fiction, and now that it’s been long enough that I’ve forgotten most of the details, I treat myself to some selective re-readings. ![]() Halloween weekend is almost upon us and on my coffee table is my battered old paperback from Skeleton Crew, a 1985 collection of horror short stories written by Stephen King.
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