โ Scribed by King, Stephen
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"Stephen King at his best" (The Denver Post)--a terrifying, award-winning collection of stories from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time.
A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. A woman driver finds a scary shortcut to paradise. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil. And a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged. These "wonderfully gruesome" stories (The New York Times Book Review) include: "The Mist"; "Here There Be Tygers"; "The Monkey"; "Cain Rose Up"; "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut"; "The Jaunt"; "The Wedding Gig"; "Paranoid: A Chant"; "The Raft"; "Word Processor of the Gods"; "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands"; "Beachworld"; "The Reaper's Image"; "Nona"; "For Owen"; "Survivor Type"; "Uncle Otto's Truck"; "Morning Deliveries (Milkman No. 1)"; "Big Wheels: a Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman No....
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Intro; Dedication; Epigraph; Introduction; The Mist; I. The Coming of the Storm; II. After the Storm. Norton. A Trip to Town.; III. The Coming of the Mist.; IV. The Storage Area. Problems with the Generators. What Happened to the Bag-Boy.; V. An Argument with Norton. A Discussion Near the Beer Coole