Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast. One Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

And I'm back, ladies and gentlemen, to review the stories found within Skeleton Crew that I did not review the first time around.

So there has been a lot of clamoring out there. There's been emails and

Facebook posts and Twitter questions about when I am coming back. Guys, I'm back. I'm back.

For my next go-around, I have been, you know, on a good stretch lately, I have been podcasting one episode every month or so,

sometimes a little bit longer. And that's not fair to all, you guys. I was trying to get through

Mr. Mercedes. I still hope to get to Mr. Mercedes before I, you know, did some recording,

but because I was having difficulty,

um, I said, you know what, screw it. Let me just go back to my original plan, which was to review, uh, skeleton crew, the stories that I never got around to in my first review of that

particular collection of short stories, because I figured that you'd probably like to hear, uh,

what I have to say. And then from here, from here I will continue my reexamination of the stories I didn't

get around to the first time. Guys, I am so sorry for my return back that you're hearing what

you're hearing in the background. I don't know if you can hear that or not, but for those of you who can and those of you

have been longtime listeners, chances are you know exactly what you're listening to.

These are the sounds of my two co-hosts who are overjoyed right now that they could join

you in the return to the Stephen Kingcast.

We are sitting here in our fireplace room.

It's cold enough to warrant a fire in the fireplace.

It's really toasty. It's really nice.

I'm sitting on the floor.

The dogs are behind me on the couch.

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