![]() ![]() ![]() I stand firmly by my opinion that King is a terrible poet, and this poem is no exception, which is why I won't attach any rating to it. This story felt a lot like it could have benefited from a little further investigation into the motives of the characters, so it ultimately didn't engage me that much. King has written worse stories, but this one just didn't do much for me. In which a toy monkey starts haunting an entire family. No wonder it was first published a few years before King began his professional career - he was still in the writer's sandpit, just playing around with words. Rather badly written and poorly plotted, this story did not have the least appeal to me, though the image of being confronted with a predator at the school toilet is indeed a frightening one. That doesn't mean that Night Shift didn't have some intense, scary and horrifying stories (just read Quitters, Inc., The Ledge or Sometimes They Come Back), but in Skeleton Crew, there are fewer missteps and more stories which just grab you by the throat and won't let go of your body until even after you have put down the book.īeyond the spoiler tags, a few thoughts on each story I have read so far are hidden. I have been reading this book on and off for a really long time by now, but I am slowly getting attached to King's short stories, and to be honest, on average, his stories grab me more intensely in this collection than they did in. ![]()
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