Giving your wife a gun could be seen as a ludicrously symbolic act'). He patronises his wife, who is the usual pathetic female creature that Stephen King loves ('You always make it seem better', she coos at one point), then shags a complete stranger about an hour later ('I thought fleetingly that if I were her husband and proprietor of those green eyes and full figure, I might not travel so much. The film sounds like a vast improvement, revising (and improving) the weak ending.David, another author insert, is a dick. Only after talking about King's novels with a colleague, who loaned me his copy, did I get the chance to refresh my memory. I think I must have read Skeleton Crew during my teenage King phase, but this story obviously failed to make an impact. This exhilarating novella explores the horror in both the enemy you know-and the one you can only imagine. But what’s out there may be worse than what they left behind. Clearly, staying in the store may prove fatal, and the Draytons, along with store employee Ollie Weeks, Amanda Dumfries, Irene Reppler, and Dan Miller, attempt to make their escape. She insists a sacrifice must be made and two groups-those for and those against-are aligned. Carmody, begins to play on their fears to convince them that this is God’s vengeance for their sins. As the confinement takes its toll on their nerves, a religious zealot, Mrs. Once there, they become trapped by a strange mist that has enveloped the town. In the wake of a summer storm, terror descends.David Drayton, his son Billy, and their neighbor Brent Norton join dozens of others and head to the local grocery store to replenish supplies following a freak storm. #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s terrifying novella about a town engulfed in a dense, mysterious mist as humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction-originally published in the acclaimed short story collection Skeleton Crew and made into a TV series, as well as a feature film starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden.
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