Final thoughts: As a whole, this collection of short stories was pretty good. Sure, some were better than others, but you’re always going to have that with a collection. For the most part, each story was well told and had a clear message with a good scare, or gruesome detail thrown in. There were a few that this reader had wished were full length novels because the concept was so good, they couldn’t help but want more; to spend more time with the characters and that world… the you have the Mist, which was long and wasn’t told that great. It was a great concept, but the execution of the whole thing fell flat, and the ending sucked. King had a few ending flops, but he also had a few ending wins that left the reader feeling chilled by its ominous and sometimes just plan scary endings. The way these stories sometimes fit together, but at other times didn’t made for an ok reading experience. Sometimes there felt like there was a theme and others it just felt really erratic in story telling. That’s what made it exciting, but at times also a bit all over the place. In the end, this was an enjoyable read, where this reader would read some stories again, but not the whole collection again.