The 2nd-14th story of Skeleton Crew.

Here are 13 more stories from Skeleton Crew by Stephen King.

2. Here There Be Tygers

It is a really short story, only 5 pages, about a third grade elementary student named Charles. Charles was imagining that there was a tiger inside the bathroom, but no one believed him. His friend and teacher were eaten when they tried to see it. But there was no sound at all.

It is a weird story of a child imagination and yet it became real on its own way.

3. The Monkey

I like this story. This kinda story really gives me the creep.

Hal Shelburn was haunted by a clockwork toy, a monkey with an evil grin and a pair of cymbals which will clap if you turn the wind-up key. He found it in the back closet of his house. Bad things started happening after he found that monkey. The monkey clapped its cymbals without anyone touching it and not long after that, terrible thing happened. Hal realized the terrible things that the monkey can do when Beulah Mc Caffery was killed at the same time it was clapping its cymbals by itself. And after that, people that he knew died one by one. He got rid of that damned monkey

20years later, the monkey came back through Hal’s son’s hand. He tried to get rid of it again by throwing it into the deepest par of the lake. Was it really gone? Not long after that day, hundreds of dead fish appeared on above the deepest part of the lake.

4. Cain Rose Up

This is a very short story about nerve breakdown. A college boy named Curt Garrish entered his dormitory room looking a bit different than usual. He had a gun in his room. He locked himself inside the room and start looking at the people on the street from his room’s window. And then he started firing his gun toward them, killing everyone that caught his eyes.

5. Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut

I find this story as an interesting story with a bit confusing end.

It was a story told by Homer Buckland about Worth Todd’s first wife, Ophelia Todd. Homer was a caretaker at Todd’s family, he was telling a story about Ophelia Todd to one of his friend. Ophelia Todd was a nice lady who likes to take shortcut. She used her Go-Devil Mercedes to unimaginable places just to shorten her time. One day, she asked Homer to prove her shortcut theory. She drove her car to streets than haven’t been used for years, and at one point it didn’t look like they were still in the state. The trees seemed alive, the animals were not usual animals, but she ignored them all.

Ophelia’s shortcuts were getting shorter and shorter each time. One day, she was missing. Ophelia’s story ended there but not Homer’s story. One night Homer decided to leave his town and not long after that he showed up in front of his friend, he was looking younger than before and there was a woman with him. This ending confused me a little, what really happened to Homer? Why is he more alive than before? And who is that woman with him? But overall I like this story.

6. The Jaunt

The Jaunt is a futuristic story, at first I was bored because I don’t really like futuristic story, but Stephen King is truly the mastered at his element, he made such an interesting ending that makes me like this story so much.

The Oates family, Mark and his wife Marilys and their children, Ricky and Patty were at the Jaunt Lounge. They were waiting to be jaunted to Mars. Mark told the story about how The Jaunt was made. Victor Carune was the master behind The Jaunt, it happened about a hundred years ago. Carune was able to teleport many things but unable to teleport living things. They all ended up dead. The first Human Test came up looking like a really old man. The scientist finally figured out the problem. It takes less than a second for the body to jaunt but much longer time mentally. So everyone had to be put to sleep before jaunting.

The Oates Family jaunted to Mars and found something so terrifying. Ricky who was a daredevil boy, who always wanted to try what other kids dare not to try, hold his breath so that he wouldn’t fall asleep. He wanted to see it, to feel it mentally. When Ricky arrived at the other end of The Jaunt, he looked like an old version of children, it didn’t look like Ricky anymore, it clawed its eyes out and then he said “longer than you think dad!”

Among all stories in this book, I think The Jaunt has the most perfect ending.

7. The Weeding Gig

The story took place in the era when mafia still ruled the society and black people were highly discriminated. A Jazz musician was asked to perform at the weeding of Mike Scollay’s sister. Mike Scollay was the leader of some kind of gangster. His sister was a very fat woman, Scollay loved her so much and he would kill anyone who laughs at her. Maureen Scollay married a little guy named Rico. At the weeding, The Greek, Scollay’s enemy, sent a man to insult Maureen. Scollay was furious and blinded by anger, he was killed at that day.

Maureen felt responsible, she said that her brother wouldn’t die if she wasn’t a fat woman. She took over her brother’s business and killed the Greek. Her empire became bigger and more brutal than her brother’s. The musician followed her progress from newspaper until she passed away

8. Paranoid: A Chant

It is a story in form of poetry or something. It is a nice way to put paranoid into words. It really defines someone who was so scared of the world outside. This person thought that he/she was being watched, and there were so many sophisticated means to spy him/her.

It’s quite interesting.

9. The Raft

The story is about 4 college students. Deke, Randy, Rachel and LaVerne. They went to a raft in the middle of the lake. But it wasn’t just the Raft that they found there, they also found a black thing looking like oil spill. That thing ate them one by one. King made it so graphical as if I was seeing the eating process instead of reading it.

I like this story a lot.

10. Word Processor of the Gods

So far, this story is the happiest story of all. Richard Hangstrom lived with his awful family, ignorant wife and son. His no good for nothing brother, Roger, had a family that he wanted to be his. His nephew, Jon, made him a word processor before Jon passed away. It wasn’t a normal word processor, it gave him everything he want. Then he started deleting his family and made his brother family came to life and became his family.

11. The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands

George Gregson met a man named Henry Brower. Henry always refused to shake hand with anyone. One day, Henry shook the hand of a dog in front of George to show him why he doesn’t want to shake hand with anyone. The dog died few minutes after that, so did his friend who forcedly shook Brower’s hand. He found out that Brower was cursed by someone when he was in Bombay. In the end, Brower killed him self by shaking his own hand.

12. Beachworld

It’s a bit boring for me.

A ship fell and crashed on a place that looked like the biggest beach in the world. It was all sand and nothing but sand. They weren’t sure was it a beach or desert. There were two survivors, Rand who was going nuts and Billy Saphiro who was trying as his best to stay sane. The sand was somehow alive. Few days later, they were rescued. But rand stayed behind.

13. The Reaper’s Image

Mr. Carlin was showing Spangler, an insurance man, The DeIver Mirror. He had bad feeling about that historical mirror. There was an image of someone inside that mirror. If anyone sees the mirror closely, he/she will see that image and then he/she would disappear into thin air. No one could find their whereabouts. Spangler didn’t believe him until he saw it for himself. Mr. Carlin knew that Spagler will never be seen again.

14. Nona

Mr. CarlinKing used an ‘I’ centered main character. This man left his college and met a beautiful girl named Nona. There was something wrong with her, she was somehow making him brutal. They had to hitchhike to go to Castle Rock. But what happened then was beyond his control, he started killing anyone that got on his way. Their last stop was a building behind the cemetery. They stayed inside.

This story is the least interesting of all the stories.