Skeleton Crew

My reread of Skeleton Crew ~14 years later did definitely damper my feelings on it. Previously I held it up with Paper Menagerie as one of my favorite short story collections. It definitely isn't. This is the 3 star-est 3 star collection full of average-to-decent stories that shined much brighter in my memory due to The Jaunt, The Raft, and Survivor Type, all of which I still loved on reread. A couple others are still pretty good- The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands, Gramma- but one of the longest ones, The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, was a huge slog and there were a lot of unmemorable ones. Next time, I will just read those top three, which still rank among the best short stories I've ever read, especially The Jaunt.