Skeleton Crew is one of my favorites, mainly because my family used to shop at the grocery store from "The Mist" when we went to Bridgton in the summer. It's s

Skeleton Crew is one of my favorites, mainly because my family used to shop at the grocery store from "The Mist" when we went to Bridgton in the summer. It's still open, but it's not really recognizable anymore. When I was a child, it was pretty much exactly the way he described it, all buzzing fluorescents, wilted produce, and green linoleum. I got really mad at Stephen King for writing himself into the Dark Tower books, but I kind of get it. I see the last two books especially as Steve plowing through a story he'd basically given up on as un-finishable, because he also couldn't not finish them. Putting himself in as a character is his apology to us as readers for there being no possible satisfactory conclusion to the series. edit: remove redundant redundancy