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* HarsherInHindsight: "Cain Rose Up," about a college campus shooting, is already one of the more disturbing stories in the collection, but the surge in school shootings has only made the story harder to read. In particular, the shooting's first victim, a young, pretty blonde student, is implied to have been targeted because of the killer's misogyny. With the rise of incel shooters who target women for "rejecting" them, that part only hits closer to home.
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* RealismInducedHorror: "Cain Rose Up" features no supernatural elements, only a college campus shooting from the perspective of the killer. The fact that shootings like the one in the story could, and have, happened multiple times makes it horrifying.
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** ''Beachworld'''s protagonist is a 5'5 man named B. Shapiro. Even funnier, because the story is about him being stranded in the driest place in the galaxy.
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* ItWasHisSled: The ending of "The Jaunt" in which [[spoiler:Ricky enters the Jaunt awake and emerges completely insane]] is one of the most infamous and discussed endings to a Stephen King short story due to how ''[[DownerEnding horrifying]]'' it is.
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* TheWoobie: Poor, poor Ricky from "The Jaunt". He decides to hold his breath so he can remain awake and see what it's like. It turns out that, while it only lasts for a few nanoseconds in objective time, it seems to take a million years to the traveler if they are awake, and they are [[AndIMustScream stuck in the void the entire time.]] Unsurprisingly, he's completely insane by the time he gets out.
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* TheWoobie: Poor, poor Ricky [[spoiler:Ricky]] from "The Jaunt". He [[spoiler:He decides to hold his breath so he can remain awake and see what it's like. It turns out that, while it only lasts for a few nanoseconds in objective time, it seems to take a million years to the traveler if they are awake, and they are [[AndIMustScream stuck in the void the entire time.]] Unsurprisingly, he's completely insane by the time he gets out.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow:
** "Gramma" is made scarier knowing that King's own grandmother was blind and senile, similar to the Gramma in the story.
** The storm on Long Lake in Bridgton, Maine and the morning trip into town to stock up on supplies went pretty much as King writes it in the opening events of "The Mist" ("Although," he writes, "I was spared the company of such an odious creature as Brent Norton").
** King can relate to the plight of the unnamed narrator in "Nona"; in at least one autobiographical essay, King has related tales of verbal and physical abuse heaped on him by beefy workingmen in bars, when he was a long-haired college student in TheSixties.
** "Gramma" is made scarier knowing that King's own grandmother was blind and senile, similar to the Gramma in the story.
** The storm on Long Lake in Bridgton, Maine and the morning trip into town to stock up on supplies went pretty much as King writes it in the opening events of "The Mist" ("Although," he writes, "I was spared the company of such an odious creature as Brent Norton").
** King can relate to the plight of the unnamed narrator in "Nona"; in at least one autobiographical essay, King has related tales of verbal and physical abuse heaped on him by beefy workingmen in bars, when he was a long-haired college student in TheSixties.
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** "Gramma" is made scarier knowing that King's own grandmother was blind and senile, similar to the Gramma in the story.
** The storm on Long Lake in Bridgton, Maine and the morning trip into town to stock up on supplies went pretty much as King writes it in the opening events of "The Mist" ("Although," he writes, "I was spared the company of such an odious creature as Brent Norton").
** King can relate to the plight of the unnamed narrator in "Nona"; in at least one autobiographical essay, King has related tales of verbal and physical abuse heaped on him by beefy workingmen in bars, when he was a long-haired college student in TheSixties.
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: In the "Notes" section at the end of the book, King relates a priceless story related to "The Raft"--a story of [[DoNotTryThisAtHome late-night drunk driving]], some traffic cones, a trip to jail, and a ''real-life'', honest-to-God DeusExMachina. King had submitted an early version of the tale, called "The Float," to ''Adam'', a girlie magazine, which paid only upon publication. While driving drunk, a traffic cone dislodged his muffler, and in a righteous drunken fury he started driving through the town of Orono, collecting them. A cop caught him, and asked, [[DeadpanSnarker "Son, are those traffic cones yours?"]] King represented himself in court a month later and lost, having to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars within thirty days. Lo and behold, he received a check from ''Adam'' for exactly that amount. He paid his fine and vowed to go straight and never mess with traffic cones again. As he puts it, "Straight I have not exactly gone, but believe me when I say I'm quits with the cones." At the end of his anecdote, he adds that he never even saw "The Float" in any ''Adam'' magazine, although he checked regularly, and asks his readers if anyone has a copy they could Xerox and send to him, just to "make sure it was published somewhere other than the Twilight Zone."
** The story also doubles as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
** The story also doubles as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
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* UncannyValley: The Monkey, especially as it's seen on multiple covers of ''Skeleton Crew''.
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* WhatAnIdiot: In "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet":
** The editor lampshades this; he says that Jane herself admitted that she ought to have realized that Jimmy was sneaking into her husband's study after finding orange peels there since Reg claimed he was allergic to oranges. That would have been the time to check and see where the spare key had gone.
** Jimmy himself was TooDumbToLive; he's established as being unruly but not stupid, given how sneaky he is. Somehow he thought it was a good idea to break into the one forbidden room where his mom is working, to eat and leave evidence there, as well as play there with a loud toy gun. When his mother and her employer come running into the room, they scream at him to get out of there. Soon after, Reg appears with a gun in his hand and with obvious murderous intent.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Jimmy would realize that if his mother is being hard on him, he needs to listen. She needs this job. Also, it's kind of obvious that Reg is holding a gun. Move and get out of there before Reg starts firing.\\
'''Instead''': He sticks out his tongue at Jane and Gertrude, and keeps firing at what he sees in the typewriter, ignoring a murderous Reg.\\
'''The Result''': This could have easily gotten his mother fired, and it's established that she is struggling as it is with him having been held back a year from first grade. As it is, the worst-case scenario happens; Reg tackles him and prepares to shoot Jimmy, since it seems Jimmy killed his muse Fornit named Rackne. All Jimmy can do is freeze in understandable mortal terror, and he screams when Jane gets shot in the head. He and his mother get shot while Gertrude goes MamaBear and picks him up, with the bullet, fortunately, being nonfatal for either of them. Safe to say that afterward, Gertrude ''definitely'' loses her job because Jane is hospitalized for a serious head injury and Reg commits suicide, meaning that Jimmy costs his mother some valuable income. The editor says that even when Jimmy was old enough to testify, he couldn't explain why he thought it was a good idea. Jane theorizes that maybe the ''Them'' that Reg feared were real, but she also thinks it was possible that Reg's schizophrenia got the better of him.
** The editor lampshades this; he says that Jane herself admitted that she ought to have realized that Jimmy was sneaking into her husband's study after finding orange peels there since Reg claimed he was allergic to oranges. That would have been the time to check and see where the spare key had gone.
** Jimmy himself was TooDumbToLive; he's established as being unruly but not stupid, given how sneaky he is. Somehow he thought it was a good idea to break into the one forbidden room where his mom is working, to eat and leave evidence there, as well as play there with a loud toy gun. When his mother and her employer come running into the room, they scream at him to get out of there. Soon after, Reg appears with a gun in his hand and with obvious murderous intent.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Jimmy would realize that if his mother is being hard on him, he needs to listen. She needs this job. Also, it's kind of obvious that Reg is holding a gun. Move and get out of there before Reg starts firing.\\
'''Instead''': He sticks out his tongue at Jane and Gertrude, and keeps firing at what he sees in the typewriter, ignoring a murderous Reg.\\
'''The Result''': This could have easily gotten his mother fired, and it's established that she is struggling as it is with him having been held back a year from first grade. As it is, the worst-case scenario happens; Reg tackles him and prepares to shoot Jimmy, since it seems Jimmy killed his muse Fornit named Rackne. All Jimmy can do is freeze in understandable mortal terror, and he screams when Jane gets shot in the head. He and his mother get shot while Gertrude goes MamaBear and picks him up, with the bullet, fortunately, being nonfatal for either of them. Safe to say that afterward, Gertrude ''definitely'' loses her job because Jane is hospitalized for a serious head injury and Reg commits suicide, meaning that Jimmy costs his mother some valuable income. The editor says that even when Jimmy was old enough to testify, he couldn't explain why he thought it was a good idea. Jane theorizes that maybe the ''Them'' that Reg feared were real, but she also thinks it was possible that Reg's schizophrenia got the better of him.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In the early days of the Jaunt, it was understood that one could send a letter to someone else in another part of the world and receive it immediately. Years later, email came into the picture, effectively serving that purpose without teleportation.
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** In the early days of the Jaunt, it was understood that one could send a letter to someone else in another part of the world and receive it immediately. Years later, email came into the picture, effectively serving that purpose withoutteleportation.teleportation.
** ''Beachworld'''s protagonist is a 5'5 man named B. Shapiro. Even funnier, because the story is about him being stranded in the driest place in the galaxy.
** In the early days of the Jaunt, it was understood that one could send a letter to someone else in another part of the world and receive it immediately. Years later, email came into the picture, effectively serving that purpose without
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* UncannyValley: The Monkey, especially as it's seen on multiple covers of ''Skeleton Crew''
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* WhatAnIdiot: In "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet":
** The editor lampshades this; he says that Jane herself admitted that she ought to have realized that Jimmy was sneaking into her husband's study after finding orange peels there since Reg claimed he was allergic to oranges. That would have been the time to check and see where the spare key had gone.
** Jimmy himself was TooDumbToLive; he's established as being unruly but not stupid, given how sneaky he is. Somehow he thought it was a good idea to break into the one forbidden room where his mom is working, to eat and leave evidence there, as well as play there with a loud toy gun. When his mother and her employer come running into the room, they scream at him to get out of there. Soon after, Reg appears with a gun in his hand and with obvious murderous intent.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Jimmy would realize that if his mother is being hard on him, he needs to listen. She needs this job. Also, it's kind of obvious that Reg is holding a gun. Move and get out of there before Reg starts firing.\\
'''Instead''': He sticks out his tongue at Jane and Gertrude, and keeps firing at what he sees in the typewriter, ignoring a murderous Reg.\\
'''The Result''': This could have easily gotten his mother fired, and it's established that she is struggling as it is with him having been held back a year from first grade. As it is, the worst-case scenario happens; Reg tackles him and prepares to shoot Jimmy, since it seems Jimmy killed his muse Fornit named Rackne. All Jimmy can do is freeze in understandable mortal terror, and he screams when Jane gets shot in the head. He and his mother get shot while Gertrude goes MamaBear and picks him up, with the bullet, fortunately, being nonfatal for either of them. Safe to say that afterward, Gertrude ''definitely'' loses her job because Jane is hospitalized for a serious head injury and Reg commits suicide, meaning that Jimmy costs his mother some valuable income. The editor says that even when Jimmy was old enough to testify, he couldn't explain why he thought it was a good idea. Jane theorizes that maybe the ''Them'' that Reg feared were real, but she also thinks it was possible that Reg's schizophrenia got the better of him.
* WhatAnIdiot: In "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet":
** The editor lampshades this; he says that Jane herself admitted that she ought to have realized that Jimmy was sneaking into her husband's study after finding orange peels there since Reg claimed he was allergic to oranges. That would have been the time to check and see where the spare key had gone.
** Jimmy himself was TooDumbToLive; he's established as being unruly but not stupid, given how sneaky he is. Somehow he thought it was a good idea to break into the one forbidden room where his mom is working, to eat and leave evidence there, as well as play there with a loud toy gun. When his mother and her employer come running into the room, they scream at him to get out of there. Soon after, Reg appears with a gun in his hand and with obvious murderous intent.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Jimmy would realize that if his mother is being hard on him, he needs to listen. She needs this job. Also, it's kind of obvious that Reg is holding a gun. Move and get out of there before Reg starts firing.\\
'''Instead''': He sticks out his tongue at Jane and Gertrude, and keeps firing at what he sees in the typewriter, ignoring a murderous Reg.\\
'''The Result''': This could have easily gotten his mother fired, and it's established that she is struggling as it is with him having been held back a year from first grade. As it is, the worst-case scenario happens; Reg tackles him and prepares to shoot Jimmy, since it seems Jimmy killed his muse Fornit named Rackne. All Jimmy can do is freeze in understandable mortal terror, and he screams when Jane gets shot in the head. He and his mother get shot while Gertrude goes MamaBear and picks him up, with the bullet, fortunately, being nonfatal for either of them. Safe to say that afterward, Gertrude ''definitely'' loses her job because Jane is hospitalized for a serious head injury and Reg commits suicide, meaning that Jimmy costs his mother some valuable income. The editor says that even when Jimmy was old enough to testify, he couldn't explain why he thought it was a good idea. Jane theorizes that maybe the ''Them'' that Reg feared were real, but she also thinks it was possible that Reg's schizophrenia got the better of him.
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* NightmareFuel: A natch for this collection:
** The [[EldritchAbomination various monstrosities]] of "The Mist".
** "Cain Rose Up", loosely based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman Charles Whitman massacre]]. An extremely short tale, but a horrifying one nonetheless - especially since school shootings have become a greater part of the national consciousness.
** The "[[EldritchAbomination oil slick]]" that eats the teens in "The Raft" and hypnotizes them with colors. Particularly the horrific way it kills Deke, dragging his entire body down ''[[{{Squick}} through a tiny crack between two planks in the deck of the raft!]]''
** The Monkey is a monstrous entity that causes a death every time it claps its cymbals together. It's also hinted to be sadistic about it, purposely targeting people close to the protagonist after he stops it from clapping its cymbals once. [[spoiler:And then even as he disposes of it in a lake, it's implied to be NotQuiteDead when several dead fish are found floating to the surface.]]
** Spike Milligan of "Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)" manages to accomplish by how he leaves horrific things like venomous spiders and deadly gases in the dairy products he delivers ForTheEvulz.
** The end of "The Jaunt" [[spoiler:when Ricky held his breath when they gave the gas so he could see The Jaunt for himself. The end result is that he turns into a white-haired, [[AgeWithoutYouth preternaturally-aged creature]] that claws out his own eyes while screaming about how it's longer than they think in there.]]
** Richard Pine's um, [[{{Autocannibalism}} diet]] and descent into madness in "Survivor Type" is truly horrifying.
** The [[EldritchAbomination various monstrosities]] of "The Mist".
** "Cain Rose Up", loosely based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman Charles Whitman massacre]]. An extremely short tale, but a horrifying one nonetheless - especially since school shootings have become a greater part of the national consciousness.
** The "[[EldritchAbomination oil slick]]" that eats the teens in "The Raft" and hypnotizes them with colors. Particularly the horrific way it kills Deke, dragging his entire body down ''[[{{Squick}} through a tiny crack between two planks in the deck of the raft!]]''
** The Monkey is a monstrous entity that causes a death every time it claps its cymbals together. It's also hinted to be sadistic about it, purposely targeting people close to the protagonist after he stops it from clapping its cymbals once. [[spoiler:And then even as he disposes of it in a lake, it's implied to be NotQuiteDead when several dead fish are found floating to the surface.]]
** Spike Milligan of "Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)" manages to accomplish by how he leaves horrific things like venomous spiders and deadly gases in the dairy products he delivers ForTheEvulz.
** The end of "The Jaunt" [[spoiler:when Ricky held his breath when they gave the gas so he could see The Jaunt for himself. The end result is that he turns into a white-haired, [[AgeWithoutYouth preternaturally-aged creature]] that claws out his own eyes while screaming about how it's longer than they think in there.]]
** Richard Pine's um, [[{{Autocannibalism}} diet]] and descent into madness in "Survivor Type" is truly horrifying.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In the "Notes" section at the end of the book, King relates a priceless story related to "The Raft"--a story of [[DoNotTryThisAtHome late-night drunk driving]], some traffic cones, a trip to jail, and a ''real-life'', honest-to-God DeusExMachina. King had submitted an early version of the tale, called "The Float," to ''Adam'', a girlie magazine, which paid only upon publication. While driving drunk, a traffic cone dislodged his muffler, and in a righteous drunken fury he started driving through the town of Orono, collecting them. A cop caught him, and asked, [[DeadpanSnarker "Son, are those traffic cones yours?"]] King represented himself in court a month later and lost, having to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars within thirty days. Lo and behold, he received a check from ''Adam'' for exactly that amount. He paid his fine and vowed to go straight and never mess with traffic cones again. As he puts it, "Straight I have not exactly gone, but believe me when I say I'm quits with the cones." At the end of his anecdote, he adds that he never even saw "The Float" in any ''Adam'' magazine, although he checked regularly, and asks his readers if anyone has a copy they could Xerox and send to him, just to "make sure it was published somewhere other than the Twilight Zone."
** The story also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
** The story also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: In the "Notes" section at the end of the book, King relates a priceless story related to "The Raft"--a story of [[DoNotTryThisAtHome late-night drunk driving]], some traffic cones, a trip to jail, and a ''real-life'', honest-to-God DeusExMachina. King had submitted an early version of the tale, called "The Float," to ''Adam'', a girlie magazine, which paid only upon publication. While driving drunk, a traffic cone dislodged his muffler, and in a righteous drunken fury he started driving through the town of Orono, collecting them. A cop caught him, and asked, [[DeadpanSnarker "Son, are those traffic cones yours?"]] King represented himself in court a month later and lost, having to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars within thirty days. Lo and behold, he received a check from ''Adam'' for exactly that amount. He paid his fine and vowed to go straight and never mess with traffic cones again. As he puts it, "Straight I have not exactly gone, but believe me when I say I'm quits with the cones." At the end of his anecdote, he adds that he never even saw "The Float" in any ''Adam'' magazine, although he checked regularly, and asks his readers if anyone has a copy they could Xerox and send to him, just to "make sure it was published somewhere other than the Twilight Zone."
** The story also doubles as aCrowningMomentOfAwesome.SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
** The story also doubles as a
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** ]The The storm on Long Lake in Bridgton, Maine and the morning trip into town to stock up on supplies went pretty much as King writes it in the opening events of "The Mist" ("Although," he writes, "I was spared the company of such an odious creature as Brent Norton").
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** The "[[EldritchAbomination oil slick]]" that eats the teens in "The Raft" and hypnotizes them with colors.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: "Gramma" is made scarier knowing that King's own grandmother was blind and senile, similar to the Gramma in the story.
** This element comes into a couple other stories as well. The storm on Long Lake in Bridgton, Maine and the morning trip into town to stock up on supplies went pretty much as King writes it in the opening events of "The Mist" ("Although," he writes, "I was spared the company of such an odious creature as Brent Norton"). And King can relate to the plight of the unnamed narrator in "Nona"; in at least one autobiographical essay, King has related tales of verbal and physical abuse heaped on him by beefy workingmen in bars, when he was a long-haired college student in TheSixties.
** This element comes into a couple other stories as well. The storm on Long Lake in Bridgton, Maine and the morning trip into town to stock up on supplies went pretty much as King writes it in the opening events of "The Mist" ("Although," he writes, "I was spared the company of such an odious creature as Brent Norton"). And King can relate to the plight of the unnamed narrator in "Nona"; in at least one autobiographical essay, King has related tales of verbal and physical abuse heaped on him by beefy workingmen in bars, when he was a long-haired college student in TheSixties.
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** "Gramma" is made scarier knowing that King's own grandmother was blind and senile, similar to the Gramma in the story.
**This element comes into a couple other stories as well. The ]The storm on Long Lake in Bridgton, Maine and the morning trip into town to stock up on supplies went pretty much as King writes it in the opening events of "The Mist" ("Although," he writes, "I was spared the company of such an odious creature as Brent Norton"). And Norton").
** King can relate to the plight of the unnamed narrator in "Nona"; in at least one autobiographical essay, King has related tales of verbal and physical abuse heaped on him by beefy workingmen in bars, when he was a long-haired college student inTheSixties. TheSixties.
** "Gramma" is made scarier knowing that King's own grandmother was blind and senile, similar to the Gramma in the story.
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** King can relate to the plight of the unnamed narrator in "Nona"; in at least one autobiographical essay, King has related tales of verbal and physical abuse heaped on him by beefy workingmen in bars, when he was a long-haired college student in
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** "Cain Rose Up", loosely based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman Charles Whitman massacre]]. An extremely short tale, but a horrifying one nonetheless.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In the "Notes" section at the end of the book, King relates a priceless story related to "The Raft"--a story of [[DoNotTryThisAtHome late-night drunk driving]], some traffic cones, a trip to jail, and a ''real-life'', honest-to-God DeusExMachina. King had submitted an early version of the tale, called "The Float," and was going to be paid two hundred and fifty on publication. While driving drunk, a traffic cone dislodged his muffler, and in a righteous drunken fury he started collecting them. A cop caught him, and asked, "[[DeadpanSnarker Son, are these traffic cones yours]]?" King represented himself in court a month later and lost, having to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars in seven days. Lo and behold, the check came within the seven days for "The Float". As he puts it, "Straight I have not exactly gone, but believe me when I say I'm quits with the traffic cones." To add insults to injury, however, he never found the story in print and has asked reader to send him a magazine with it to prove he's "not crazy".
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In the "Notes" section at the end of the book, King relates a priceless story related to "The Raft"--a story of [[DoNotTryThisAtHome late-night drunk driving]], some traffic cones, a trip to jail, and a ''real-life'', honest-to-God DeusExMachina. King had submitted an early version of the tale, called "The Float," and was going to be ''Adam'', a girlie magazine, which paid two hundred and fifty on only upon publication. While driving drunk, a traffic cone dislodged his muffler, and in a righteous drunken fury he started driving through the town of Orono, collecting them. A cop caught him, and asked, "[[DeadpanSnarker Son, [[DeadpanSnarker "Son, are these those traffic cones yours]]?" yours?"]] King represented himself in court a month later and lost, having to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars in seven within thirty days. Lo and behold, the he received a check came within the seven days from ''Adam'' for "The Float". exactly that amount. He paid his fine and vowed to go straight and never mess with traffic cones again. As he puts it, "Straight I have not exactly gone, but believe me when I say I'm quits with the traffic cones." To add insults to injury, however, " At the end of his anecdote, he adds that he never found the story even saw "The Float" in print any ''Adam'' magazine, although he checked regularly, and asks his readers if anyone has asked reader to a copy they could Xerox and send him a magazine with to him, just to "make sure it to prove he's "not crazy". was published somewhere other than the Twilight Zone."
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In the "Notes" section at the end of the book, King relates a priceless story related to "The Raft"--a story of [[DoNotTryThisAtHome late-night drunk driving]], some traffic cones, a trip to jail, and a ''real-life'', honest-to-God DeusExMachina:
--> King had submitted an early version of the tale, called "The Float," and was going to be paid two hundred and fifty on publication. While driving drunk, a traffic cone dislodged his muffler, and in a righteous drunken fury he started collecting them. A cop caught him, and asked, "[[DeadpanSnarker Son, are these traffic cones yours]]?" King represented himself in court a month later and lost, having to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars in seven days. Lo and behold, the check came within the seven days for "The Float". As he puts it, "Straight I have not exactly gone, but believe me when I say I'm quits with the traffic cones." To add insults to injury, however, he never found the story in print and has asked reader to send him a magazine with it to prove he's "not crazy".
--> King had submitted an early version of the tale, called "The Float," and was going to be paid two hundred and fifty on publication. While driving drunk, a traffic cone dislodged his muffler, and in a righteous drunken fury he started collecting them. A cop caught him, and asked, "[[DeadpanSnarker Son, are these traffic cones yours]]?" King represented himself in court a month later and lost, having to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars in seven days. Lo and behold, the check came within the seven days for "The Float". As he puts it, "Straight I have not exactly gone, but believe me when I say I'm quits with the traffic cones." To add insults to injury, however, he never found the story in print and has asked reader to send him a magazine with it to prove he's "not crazy".
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In the "Notes" section at the end of the book, King relates a priceless story related to "The Raft"--a story of [[DoNotTryThisAtHome late-night drunk driving]], some traffic cones, a trip to jail, and a ''real-life'', honest-to-God DeusExMachina:
-->DeusExMachina. King had submitted an early version of the tale, called "The Float," and was going to be paid two hundred and fifty on publication. While driving drunk, a traffic cone dislodged his muffler, and in a righteous drunken fury he started collecting them. A cop caught him, and asked, "[[DeadpanSnarker Son, are these traffic cones yours]]?" King represented himself in court a month later and lost, having to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars in seven days. Lo and behold, the check came within the seven days for "The Float". As he puts it, "Straight I have not exactly gone, but believe me when I say I'm quits with the traffic cones." To add insults to injury, however, he never found the story in print and has asked reader to send him a magazine with it to prove he's "not crazy".
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--> King had submitted an early version of the tale, called "The Float," and was going to be paid two hundred and fifty on publication. While driving drunk, a traffic cone dislodged his muffler, and in a righteous drunken fury he started collecting them. A cop caught him, and asked, "[[DeadpanSnarker Son, are these traffic cones yours]] ?" yours]]?" King represented himself in court a month later and lost, having to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars in seven days. Lo and behold, the check came within the seven days for "The Float". As he puts it, "Straight I have not exactly gone, but believe me when I say I'm quits with the traffic cones." To add insults to injury, however, he never found the story in print and has asked reader to send him a magazine with it to prove he's "not crazy".
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In the "Notes" section at the end of the book, King relates a priceless story related to "The Raft"--a story of [[DoNotTryThisAtHome late-night drunk driving]], some traffic cones, a trip to jail, and a ''real-life'', honest-to-God DeusExMachina. The story also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In the "Notes" section at the end of the book, King relates a priceless story related to "The Raft"--a story of [[DoNotTryThisAtHome late-night drunk driving]], some traffic cones, a trip to jail, and a ''real-life'', honest-to-God DeusExMachina. DeusExMachina:
--> King had submitted an early version of the tale, called "The Float," and was going to be paid two hundred and fifty on publication. While driving drunk, a traffic cone dislodged his muffler, and in a righteous drunken fury he started collecting them. A cop caught him, and asked, "[[DeadpanSnarker Son, are these traffic cones yours]] ?" King represented himself in court a month later and lost, having to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars in seven days. Lo and behold, the check came within the seven days for "The Float". As he puts it, "Straight I have not exactly gone, but believe me when I say I'm quits with the traffic cones." To add insults to injury, however, he never found the story in print and has asked reader to send him a magazine with it to prove he's "not crazy".
** The story also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
--> King had submitted an early version of the tale, called "The Float," and was going to be paid two hundred and fifty on publication. While driving drunk, a traffic cone dislodged his muffler, and in a righteous drunken fury he started collecting them. A cop caught him, and asked, "[[DeadpanSnarker Son, are these traffic cones yours]] ?" King represented himself in court a month later and lost, having to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars in seven days. Lo and behold, the check came within the seven days for "The Float". As he puts it, "Straight I have not exactly gone, but believe me when I say I'm quits with the traffic cones." To add insults to injury, however, he never found the story in print and has asked reader to send him a magazine with it to prove he's "not crazy".
** The story also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
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** The "[[EldritchAbomination oil slick]]" that eats the teens in "The Raft" and hypnotizes them with colors.
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny: In the "Notes" section at the end of the book, King relates a priceless story related to "The Raft"--a story of [[DoNotTryThisAtHome late-night drunk driving]], some traffic cones, a trip to jail, and a ''real-life'', honest-to-God DeusExMachina. The story also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
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** This element comes into a couple other stories as well. The storm on Long Lake in Bridgton, Maine and the morning trip into town to stock up on supplies went pretty much as King writes it in the opening events of "The Mist." And King can relate to the plight of the unnamed narrator in "Nona"; in at least one autobiographical essay, King has related tales of verbal and physical abuse heaped on him by beefy workingmen in bars, when he was a long-haired college student in TheSixties.
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** This element comes into a couple other stories as well. The storm on Long Lake in Bridgton, Maine and the morning trip into town to stock up on supplies went pretty much as King writes it in the opening events of "The Mist." Mist" ("Although," he writes, "I was spared the company of such an odious creature as Brent Norton"). And King can relate to the plight of the unnamed narrator in "Nona"; in at least one autobiographical essay, King has related tales of verbal and physical abuse heaped on him by beefy workingmen in bars, when he was a long-haired college student in TheSixties.
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** This element comes into a couple other stories as well. The storm on Long Lake in Bridgton, Maine and the morning trip into town to stock up on supplies went pretty much as King writes it in the opening events of "The Mist." And King can relate to the plight of the unnamed narrator in "Nona"; in at least one autobiographical essay, King has related tales of verbal and physical abuse heaped on him by beefy workingmen in bars, when he was a long-haired college student in TheSixties.
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** The end of "The Jaunt" [[spoiler:when Ricky held his breath when they gave the gas so he could see The Jaunt for himself. The end result is that he turns into a white-haired HumanoidAbomination that claws out his own eyes while screaming about how it's longer than they think in there.]]
* {{Squick}}: The details of Richard Pine's AutoCannibalism
* {{Squick}}: The details of Richard Pine's AutoCannibalism
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** The end of "The Jaunt" [[spoiler:when Ricky held his breath when they gave the gas so he could see The Jaunt for himself. The end result is that he turns into a white-haired HumanoidAbomination white-haired, [[AgeWithoutYouth preternaturally-aged creature]] that claws out his own eyes while screaming about how it's longer than they think in there.]]
* {{Squick}}: The details of Richard Pine'sAutoCannibalism{{Autocannibalism}}.
* {{Squick}}: The details of Richard Pine's
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: "Gramma" is made scarier knowing that King's own grandmother was blind and senile, similar to the Gramma in the story.
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* UncannyValley: The Monkey, especially as it's seen on multiple covers of ''Skeleton Crew''
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* HilariousInHindsight: In the early days of the Jaunt, it was understood that one could send a letter to someone else in another part of the world and receive it immediately. Years later, email came into the picture, effectively serving that purpose without teleportation.
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** Spike Milligan of "Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)" manages to accomplish by how he leaves horrific things like venomous spiders and deadly gases in the dairy products he delivers ForTheEvulz.
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* NightmareFuel: A natch for this collection
** The [[EldritchAbomination various monstrosities]] of "The Mist"
** The Monkey is a monstrous entity that causes a death every time it claps its cymbals together. It's also hinted to be sadistic about it, purposely targeting people close to the protagonist after he stops it from clapping its cymbals once. [[spoiler:And then even as he disposes of it in a lake, it's implied to be NotQuiteDead when several dead fish are found floating to the surface.]]
** The end of "The Jaunt" [[spoiler:when Ricky held his breath when they gave the gas so he could see The Jaunt for himself. The end result is that he turns into a white-haired HumanoidAbomination that claws out his own eyes while screaming about how it's longer than they think in there.]]
* {{Squick}}: The details of Richard Pine's AutoCannibalism
* UncannyValley: The Monkey, especially as it's seen on multiple covers of ''Skeleton Crew''
** The [[EldritchAbomination various monstrosities]] of "The Mist"
** The Monkey is a monstrous entity that causes a death every time it claps its cymbals together. It's also hinted to be sadistic about it, purposely targeting people close to the protagonist after he stops it from clapping its cymbals once. [[spoiler:And then even as he disposes of it in a lake, it's implied to be NotQuiteDead when several dead fish are found floating to the surface.]]
** The end of "The Jaunt" [[spoiler:when Ricky held his breath when they gave the gas so he could see The Jaunt for himself. The end result is that he turns into a white-haired HumanoidAbomination that claws out his own eyes while screaming about how it's longer than they think in there.]]
* {{Squick}}: The details of Richard Pine's AutoCannibalism
* UncannyValley: The Monkey, especially as it's seen on multiple covers of ''Skeleton Crew''
