"The Mist", a marvelously devious novella first published in the compendium "Skeleton Crew", is one of Stephen King's finest and most go-for-the-jugular stories he's ever written. Set, of course, in Maine, the story details the aftermath of a large coastal storm which blows in a mysteriously thick, menacing fog that quickly envelopes the area. Trapped in the local grocery store, a group of locals quickly discovers that a host of unholy, unearthly creatures are waiting in the mist, and all who venture out are sure to meet their violent end. While the little book creates classic creature-feature horror scenes and ratchets up the suspense while the inhabitants of the store fight to stay alive, the worst enemies in the story are the humans themselves, who quickly devolve and regress into primal, animalistic survival mode and turn against one another. While the reader of this novella will walk away after finishing the story with a truly unsettling feeling from all the weird and terrifying creatures, the scariest conjuration is a religiously-unsettled woman named Mrs. Carmody, one of the most haunting and dangerous characters ever written. Check out the movie version, too, for a wonderfully dark and intense adaptation of King's story!
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