The Monkey

[heathfodor]

Loving this collection so far. The Mist was great, loking forward to seeing the movie.

The Monkey is freaking me out. Love this stuff

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[michal]

The Mist is a very dark and well-told story I think. I didn't enjoy The Monkey very much, but the entire Skeleton Crew collection is well worth reading and rereading (and, in my case - rereading and rereading and rereading. :smile2:)

[LadyDi4476]

The Monkey is by far one of the scariest short stories SK has ever written. That one and "Gramma" which is also in this book. This is one of my fave short story collections from him. It has has "The Raft!"

[Lina]

I read The Monkey long ago but I remember that this story impressed me and it seemed to be scary to me. I guess I should re-read it in future.
In general, I like this story collection and one of my favorite stories is The Raft. I don't know why but when I first read this story it scared me to death. I re-read it a few days ago, but still it seemes to be really horrible!

[jlessl]

All the stories are good! SK tapped into another scary children thing with the monkey toy, just as he did with clowns, in IT. Now THAT was one scary book and the movie, I think, did it justice. I love that movie.

As for the movie version of the Mist, be prepared, it doesn't compare to the story and the ending was changed for shock effect.

Gramma has all the makings for a great movie. Wonder why no one has done it?

[The Outsider]

Dude this story was frickin creepy. And the scariest part was, a little while after reading it, I was looking in a closet for something, and I saw a little monkey with cymbals in there. Needless to say I got rid of that quickly.

[DanishReader]

Gramma was done as an episode in The Twilight Zone.

[heather_eaves]

I agree that The Monkey is a really scaryy story. Skeleton Crew has turned out to be one of my favorite books because it has so many many great stories in it. In SC I also loved The Mist, Gramma, Mrs. Todd's Shortcut, The Jaunt, The Reapers Image, Survior Type and Uncle Otto's Truck. I love all his collections of short stories but this is the only one that I have found so many stories through the book that I really love to read over and over!

[heather_eaves]

I did that exact same thing a couple of days after reading the story but I found it at my grandparents house. Those monkey's with those cymbals are really scary looking. Escpecially because this monkey was old and the fur was mangey looking just like the one SK describes.

[bryantburnette]

For some reason, I'm not a big fan of this story. It's not bad, and the climax on the lake is pretty cool, but it just doesn't resonate with me. Could make a really creepy movie, though.

[Aarny]

Am I the only one that didn't find it scary at all? :P

[gniknehpets]

I found a toy monkey with cymbals in an antique store and gave it to my sister. She refused for years to take it out of the box. It sits on a shelf with the rest of her King collection. I don't even like looking at the picture on the box!

[Bryan James]

I've read "The Monkey" a few times...and the book is my current "morning porcelain throne" reader, so I'll get to it again. It never really impressed me as much as some of the other stories, but I think it was a bigass meta-allegoraphory for something that I wasn't ready to accept.

Maybe next time I'll get it.

~BJS

[GNTLGNT]

I can't go near an inland body of water without listening for those damn cymbals!

[Dishsoaps]

I just finished "The Monkey" and thought it was kinda frightening. Every kid grows up scared of something and hopes to never see it again, and in this case the monkey continues to come back. Well written and hopefully we never hear about that monkey again lol

[Seb Shaw]

Enjoyed this short. It was creepy in parts too. Once again because the characters are so rich in detail you can relate to them in some way or another

[Oy4ever]

might sound weird but this story freaked me out the most!

[CaseyM]

I thought this story was good, but not particularly scary. I do agree with other people that it would make a good movie though. They could build up the suspense which I think would work well. Now I wonder where the monkey came from originally...

[amanda1812]

I've always thought those monkeys were seriously sinister - even as a small child they freaked me out - so this story really struck a chord with me. It brought back the feeling of childhood fears and scared the brown and smelly out of me :oh:

[friend of Oye]

I'm an antique toy collector. Recently I purchased a wind up monkey with the cymbals, in the original box, at a swap meep in the deep piney woods of east Texas. On the box it states "made with real fur". Makes me wonder, what kind of animal did they kill to get the fur. I might post a youtube vid of the lil bugger slapping his cymbals.