One by one, each survivor enters the fog in a desperate attempt to reach safety or find help. The bulk of the plot takes place in a supermarket, where David Drayton is trapped with his son, Billy, and a number of other civilians. The monsters lurk in the fog, making contact with the townspeople only after the fog envelops their homes and local businesses. In what is arguably the collection’s most famous story, “The Mist,” a mist draws itself over a suburban town, concealing a rift between the human world and a Lovecraftian world of hideous monsters. Moreover, the voices of King’s narrators are candid, providing an objectivity and ethos that are undermined by the supernatural forces around them.
They are distinctively modern, referring to technologies, products, and events embedded in the public consciousness of late nineteenth-century America.
The stories in Skeleton Crew take place in worlds that are already unsettled, often as a result of some repressed or hidden crime or the denial of a supernatural entity that ends up being all too real. The collection helped establish King as one of the most prominent horror writers in American history. Many of the stories in Skeleton Crew, such as “The Mist,” previously stood as independent works others have been adapted into other forms, including comic strips and films. Lovecraft, King’s stories explore the dark underbelly of human consciousness, the vices of modern life, and the ways in which antisocial impulses and negative experiences such as fear, anxiety, anger, and trauma give shape to our dreams and nightmares. Often likened to the preeminent works of horror writers Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Skeleton Crew is a 1985 collection of short stories by American fantasy-horror author Stephen King.
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