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Skeleton Crew
Stephen King
published: 1985, read: 12/12/22
512 pages, genre: Horror
rating: 8/10, normalized: 7.778/10
0.677σ better than average
1.157σ or 0.936/10 better than average in Horror genre
0.831σ or 0.712/10 better than average by Stephen King
This is a goated collection of 22 short stories with notable mention including: The Mist, The Jaunt, The Raft, Beachworld, Nona, For Owen, Survivor Type, Morning Deliveriess (1) and (2).
Some of his best, blending ethereal horror, with real evil of the world horror, with some sci-fi horror too. Great introduction to SK
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| 12/12/22 | Stephen King | Skeleton Crew | 512 | 1985 | Horror | 8.000 | 7.778 | ||
| 6/23/22 | Stephen King | If It Bleeds | 448 | 2020 | Horror | 6.500 | 6.111 | short story(s) | |
| 9/5/24 | Greg Egan | Planck Dive | 23 | 1998 | Sci-Fi | 9.250 | 9.167 | time dilationshort story(s) | |
| 5/12/24 | Italo Calvino | Cosmicomics | 179 | 1965 | Sci-Fi | 7.029 | 6.699 | time dilationshort story(s) | Will Liff. |
| 1/5/26 | Brian Evenson | A Collapse of Horses | 220 | 2016 | Horror | 6.750 | 6.389 | short story(s) | Ben Roth |
| 1/18/25 | Stephen King | Lisey's Story | 527 | 2006 | Horror | 6.917 | 6.574 | Banks G. | |
| 12/10/24 | Stephen King | Misery | 432 | 1987 | Horror | 6.600 | 6.222 | Dad | |
| 7/7/24 | Stephen King | Pet Sematary | 560 | 1983 | Horror | 8.750 | 8.611 | Dad | |
| 6/30/24 | Stephen King | Carrie | 212 | 1974 | Horror | 8.000 | 7.778 | Dad | |
| 6/10/24 | M. R. James | Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad | 25 | 1904 | Horror | 6.750 | 6.389 | short story(s) | Chabon |
| 2/19/24 | Stephen King | Bag of Bones | 607 | 1998 | Horror | 6.625 | 6.250 | John B. | |
| 5/23/23 | Stephen King | Four Past Midnight | 960 | 2004 | Horror | 7.000 | 6.667 | John B. | |
| 5/23/23 | Stephen King | The Langoliers | 304 | 1990 | Horror | 7.000 | 6.667 | John B. | |
| 7/13/22 | Stephen King | The Outsider | 576 | 2018 | Horror | 6.500 | 6.111 | ||
| 1/20/22 | Stephen King | The Apt Pupil | 224 | 1998 | Horror | 6.000 | 5.556 | Jack M. | |
| 4/9/19 | Stephen King | Full Dark, No Stars | 368 | 2010 | Horror | 8.000 | 7.778 | Dad | |
| 10/9/16 | Harlan Ellison | I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream | 163 | 1967 | Horror | 7.250 | 6.944 | short story(s) | |
| 10/9/16 | Charlotte Stetson | The Yellow Wallpaper | 29 | 1892 | Horror | 6.500 | 6.111 | short story(s) | |
| 8/4/26 | Ray Bradbury | There Will Come Soft Rains | 5 | 1950 | Fiction | 6.750 | 6.389 | short story(s) | |
| 7/1/26 | Vernor Vinge | A Fire Upon the Deep | 626 | 1992 | Sci-Fi | 7.250 | 6.944 | time dilation | |
| 5/5/26 | Brian Evenson | Altmann's Tongue | 278 | 1994 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | short story(s) | |
| 4/2/26 | Roberto Bolaño | Posthumous Stories | 160 | 2025 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | short story(s) | |
| 3/25/26 | Roberto Bolaño | Nazi Literature in the Americas | 237 | 1996 | Fiction | 8.250 | 8.056 | short story(s) | |
| 3/22/26 | Roberto Bolaño | The Insufferable Gaucho | 164 | 2003 | Fiction | 7.625 | 7.361 | short story(s) | |
| 3/20/26 | Roberto Bolaño | Antwerp | 119 | 2002 | Fiction | 7.250 | 6.944 | short story(s) | |
| 3/3/26 | Stefan Zweig | Chess | 84 | 1942 | Fiction | 8.500 | 8.333 | short story(s) | |
| 1/19/26 | Raymond Carver | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | 176 | 1981 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | short story(s) | |
| 12/31/25 | Cixin Liu | To Hold Up the Sky | 336 | 2021 | Sci-Fi | 6.700 | 6.333 | short story(s) | |
| 10/2/25 | Brett Easton Ellis | The Informers | 240 | 1994 | Fiction | 7.000 | 6.667 | short story(s) | |
| 9/16/25 | David Foster Wallace | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | 288 | 1999 | Fiction | 8.633 | 8.481 | short story(s) | |
| 8/11/25 | Greg Egan | Diaspora | 376 | 1997 | Sci-Fi | 8.000 | 7.778 | referenced | thesephist |
| 5/27/25 | Hubert Selby Jr. | Last Exit to Brooklyn | 320 | 1964 | Fiction | 8.708 | 8.565 | short story(s) | King |
| 1/28/25 | Stephen King | 11/22/63 | 849 | 2011 | Historical Fiction | 8.000 | 7.778 | Grandma | |
| 1/13/25 | qntm | Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories | 107 | 2022 | Sci-Fi | 7.375 | 7.083 | short story(s) | |
| 1/3/25 | Isaac Asimov | Nightfall and Other Stories | 352 | 1969 | Sci-Fi | 6.737 | 6.374 | short story(s) | |
| 11/16/24 | Dan Simmons | Hyperion Hyperion Cantos (1) | 482 | 1989 | Sci-Fi | 8.025 | 7.806 | time dilation | |
| 10/25/24 | Various | 40 x 40 | 394 | 2003 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | short story(s) | |
| 10/13/24 | Italo Calvino | Invisible Cities | 179 | 1972 | Fiction | 5.500 | 5.000 | short story(s) | |
| 9/30/24 | Jorge Luis Borges | The Zahir | 13 | 1949 | Fiction | 7.250 | 6.944 | short story(s) | |
| 9/25/24 | Franz Kafka | In the Penal Colony | 33 | 1919 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | short story(s) | |
| 9/25/24 | Ray Bradbury | The Veldt | 13 | 1950 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | short story(s) | |
| 9/6/24 | Greg Egan | You and Whose Army? | 34 | 1998 | Sci-Fi | 6.750 | 6.389 | short story(s) | |
| 9/4/24 | Paul Anderson | Tau Zero | 232 | 1970 | Sci-Fi | 7.250 | 6.944 | time dilation | roon |
| 7/10/24 | Ursula K. Le Guin | Rocannon's World Hainish Cycle (1) | 258 | 1966 | Sci-Fi | 6.500 | 6.111 | time dilation | |
| 6/28/24 | Te-Ping Chen | The Land of Big Numbers | 236 | 2021 | Fiction | 5.625 | 5.139 | short story(s) | |
| 6/26/24 | Various | American Short Fiction Vol. 9, Issue 33 | 128 | 2006 | Fiction | 7.625 | 7.361 | short story(s) | |
| 6/7/24 | Gershom Scholem | The Golem of Prague & The Golem of Rehovoth | 8 | 1965 | Essays | 7.500 | 7.222 | short story(s) | Chabon |
| 6/6/24 | Jorge Luis Borges | Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius | 16 | 1940 | Fiction | 7.750 | 7.500 | short story(s) | Chabon |
| 2/19/24 | Ray Bradbury | Mars is Heaven | 12 | 1948 | Fiction | 8.000 | 7.778 | short story(s) | |
| 6/18/23 | Various | Obsolescence | 360 | 2023 | Sci-Fi | 6.000 | 5.556 | short story(s) | |
| 1/29/23 | George Saunders | Escape from Spiderhead | 10 | 2010 | Sci-Fi | 7.750 | 7.500 | short story(s) | |
| 1/11/23 | Ted Chiang | Exhalation | 368 | 2019 | Sci-Fi | 7.500 | 7.222 | short story(s) | |
| 1/8/23 | Joe Halderman | The Forever War | 236 | 1974 | Sci-Fi | 5.000 | 4.444 | time dilation | |
| 1/6/23 | Neal Stephenson | Anathem | 1013 | 2008 | Sci-Fantasy | 8.500 | 8.333 | time dilation | roon |
| 10/27/22 | Cixin Liu | Deaths End Three Body Problem (3) | 592 | 2008 | Sci-Fi | 8.500 | 8.333 | time dilation | Alex W. |
| 7/25/22 | Ray Bradbury | The Illustrated Man | 256 | 1969 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | short story(s) | |
| 6/24/22 | Stephen King | Later | 256 | 2021 | Thriller | 6.500 | 6.111 | ||
| 6/13/22 | Stephen King | The Institute | 576 | 2019 | Fiction | 6.500 | 6.111 | ||
| 6/12/19 | Stephen King | The Stand | 1153 | 1978 | Fiction | 8.500 | 8.333 | Dad | |
| 4/13/19 | Stephen King | The Long Walk | 384 | 1979 | Thriller | 8.500 | 8.333 | Dad | |
| 3/20/17 | David Ives | All in the Timing: Sure Thing | 13 | 1994 | Screenplay | 7.750 | 7.500 | short story(s) | |
| 2/15/17 | Frank O'Connor | The Drunkard | 6 | 1948 | Fiction | 8.000 | 7.778 | short story(s) | |
| 9/11/14 | Guy De Maupassant | The Prisoners | 24 | 1880 | Fiction | 7.500 | 7.222 | short story(s) | |
| 10/31/26 | Steven L. Peck | A Short Stay in Hell | 110 | 2012 | Horror | 7.350 | 7.056 | ||
| 4/16/25 | Blake Butler | Uxa.Gov | 356 | 2024 | Horror | 4.500 | 3.889 | ||
| 3/2/25 | Cassandra Khaw | The Salt Grows Heavy | 112 | 2023 | Horror | 7.650 | 7.389 | ||
| 3/1/25 | Iain Reid | I'm Thinking of Ending Things | 256 | 2016 | Horror | 7.250 | 6.944 | ||
| 1/11/25 | Felix Blackwell | Stolen Tongues | 320 | 2017 | Horror | 6.750 | 6.389 | ||
| 1/9/25 | Brett Easton Ellis | American Psycho | 399 | 1991 | Horror | 7.750 | 7.500 | ||
| 1/7/25 | William Peter Blatty | The Exorcist | 340 | 1971 | Horror | 8.000 | 7.778 | Dad | |
| 10/29/24 | Sarah Moss | Ghost Wall | 145 | 2018 | Horror | 7.500 | 7.222 | ||
| 10/26/24 | Tanya Pell | Cicada | 166 | 2024 | Horror | 6.500 | 6.111 | ||
| 9/29/24 | Joe Hill | Heart Shaped Box | 402 | 2000 | Horror | 6.750 | 6.389 | ||
| 9/27/24 | Josh Malerman | Incidents Around the House | 385 | 2024 | Horror | 6.750 | 6.389 | ||
| 9/19/24 | Gus Moreno | This Thing Between us | 149 | 2021 | Horror | 6.125 | 5.694 | ||
| 8/9/24 | John Langan | The Fisherman | 263 | 2016 | Horror | 7.833 | 7.593 | ||
| 2/9/24 | Richard Bachman | Rage | 211 | 1977 | Horror | 7.375 | 7.083 | ||
| 12/4/23 | Agustina Bazterrica | Tender is the Flesh | 224 | 2017 | Horror | 6.500 | 6.111 | Jessika | |
| 7/13/23 | Christopher Beuhlman | Between Two Fires | 436 | 2012 | Horror | 6.813 | 6.458 | Nick W. | |
| 7/6/23 | Dan Simmons | Carrion Comfort | 802 | 1989 | Horror | 8.563 | 8.403 |