The standalone paperback was relatively brief at 230 pages and was told from the point of view of David Drayton.Īs with any Stephen King story, the general atmosphere of the book was dark, while the situation inside the supermarket was similar to that leading to the final facedown in The Stand. The story was originally printed as a novella in Skeleton Crew, a compilation of 22 stories by Stephen King. While on an errand to pick up supplies in the local supermarket, artist David Drayton, his son Billy, and neighbor Brent Norton find themselves stranded inside the store as someone bursts in, warning them against “something” lurking within the mist, something dangerous and unknown. The Mist tells the story of a mysteriously thick mist that envelops Bridgeton, Maine after a storm that devastates most of the homes in the area and kills the power throughout town. Because my momentum has waned somewhat, it took me a while before I started on and finished the paperback. I wasn’t able to get a copy until three years later (two weeks ago) at a secondhand bookstore, along with an old issue of Firestarter (which was also turned into a movie starring a young Drew Barrymore). It was, by far, one of the creepiest most tragic horror films that I have watched. After I saw the movie in the cinema, I was immediately intrigued to read the book version of The Mist.
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