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Like many of Stephen King's stories, this one takes place in a small town in Maine. The day after a violent thunderstorm strikes, a strange mist spreads across the town of Bridgton. A large group of people become trapped in the Federal, the town's supermarket, when they discover numerous deadly creatures of unknown species, resembling slugs, dragon flies, lobsters, spiders, and giant squid, lurking within the mist. The theory amongst the group is that 'The Arrowhead Project,' a top-secret military experiment, caused the devastation. This story, previously published as a novella in 'Skeleton Crew,' was frightfully fantastic, the ending, uncertain, like a bad dream. I highly recommend this book, can't wait to see the movie!

This is my favorite Stephen King story so far. It had so many elements to it, it just blew my mind. Of course, you have the normal monsters that are present in any horror story, but at the same time, you have no idea what they are. This is a great example of why the unknown is scarier than the known. When you throw people into a cramped space, with no option to leave, the human psyche goes crazy. You have people who refuse to believe it (The flat-earthers) and raving religious lunatics (Mrs. Carmody). This story was about sacrifice. It was a peak into the mentality of humans. It faced you the horrible bleakness of not knowing what to do when up against the unknown. Amazing horror story. This story definitely shows why Mr. King is the king of macabre.

This book is lacking any real Stephen King quality.

-Horror is placed on a small town by creatures in the mist.... protection and shelter in town grocery store is the only thing to keep them safe! (Made into a movie!)

I found this book hard to put down and I just wanted to keep on reading.... Another great novel by Stephen King.

"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!

Loved the chracters but the storyline was kinda predictable.