Though movies might still be the default, we're increasingly seeing popular books being retold as prestige TV shows big-budget audio dramas and, of course, video games.
I find this so surprising because sooner or later, any even moderately successful author tends to see their work adapted into other media. I particularly wanted to revisit this story because, well, in case you can't tell, I really like video games and The Mist is one of surprisingly few King stories to have received a video game adaptation. My choice of Skeleton Crew for this Halloween's reading material wasn't random, as it opens with King's 1980 novella The Mist. I am, after all, a self-confessed horror nerd.
Fair to say some of his stuff hasn't aged brilliantly, but despite many rough edges he undeniably remains one of my all-time favourite authors. Back in my wild teenage years I binged King's entire back-catalogue of published fiction, and now that it's been long enough for me to have forgotten most of the details, I'm treating myself to some selective re-reads. Halloweekend is almost upon us and sitting on my coffee table is my battered old paperback copy of Skeleton Crew, a 1985 collection of short horror stories by Stephen King.
