The Mist
Written by Stephen King
Narrated by Will Patton
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
In the wake of a summer storm, terror descends...David Drayton, his son Billy, and their neighbor Brent Norton join dozens of others and head to the local grocery store to replenish supplies following a freak storm. Once there, they become trapped by a strange mist that has enveloped the town. As the confinement takes its toll on their nerves, a religious zealot, Mrs. Carmody, begins to play on their fears to convince them that this is God’s vengeance for their sins. She insists a sacrifice must be made and two groups—those for and those against—are aligned. Clearly, staying in the store may prove fatal, and the Draytons, along with store employee Ollie Weeks, Amanda Dumfries, Irene Reppler, and Dan Miller, attempt to make their escape. But what’s out there may be worse than what they left behind.
This exhilarating novella explores the horror in both the enemy you know—and the one you can only imagine.
Stephen King
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection You Like It Darker, Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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Reviews for The Mist
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Would be five stars but the horniness/mysoginistic shit is annoying
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Awesome book!! I saw the movie first but it doesn't compare
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good book, but the Movie ending was a little more morbid.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It was really good! I thought the narrators voice really added to the book.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A bit of a slow start, but once it go going it was excellent.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I watched the movie before reading the book. There's subtle changes but it's mostly the same. One big change is the ending. A lesson on how quickly our mind can collapse under great stress and how some still clinged to hope.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The narrator unfortunately has a lisp. I cannot listen to him.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Big Stephen King fan, but I was bored by this story. I also wish someone other than Will Patton read it— his voices for the characters were laughable & annoying.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It was a great book and the narrator was perfect. I love eerie Stephen King books.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything about the book was exactly like the movie, except for the ending. The ending was so undramattic.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was my first SK read, and didnt let down
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Loved the book, but the ending was a bit lacking.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good book, interesting plot, good flow, better ending than the movie
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not my favorite King story, but I did like the narrator.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I always have such a hard time with King stories. On one hand he knows how to set a stage and lay out some truly creepy imagery. The fog itself is oppressive, the creatures inside are mysterious and dangerous, and I would die for the character Ollie. On the other hand the women (bar one) were either weak and useless or bitter old dangerous crones. The main character (spoilers) couldn't go a single day without cheating on his wife and was generally a deranged asshole that kept breaking out into laughter as people died around him. For every one thing that I enjoyed about this story there was at least one thing that annoyed me. All around okay, nothing to write home about.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The supermarket as a microcosm of society. Absolutely brilliant. Never mind the monsters, what makes him scary is how well he writes people.
Narration is excellent; perfectly done for this story. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It starts a little slow for me but turned out to be a great book
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Suspenseful, and what a storyline. Love to see the movie.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent dtorytelling. Got a bit rough to listen to after a while and I needed to take a break. Loved the ending.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Everything I wanted it to be, forever a sci-fi horror classic!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Like everything I've read by Stephen King, the premise held more interest than the execution.
Another self righteous man with anger issues with a wife to objectify and quickly kill off tries to be a voice of reason during an outbreak of monsters and survives solely based on luck.
Anytime a woman was introduced her attractiveness was commented on. Women mostly were defined by their subservience and men by their aggression.
The protagonist reads like a man in his late 50's at least and it's jarring when someone calls him "young man."
To be fair King's writing style just isn't my up of tea. To me it reads like he's explaining the punchline to a joke. writes like he's explaining the punchline to a joke. "A man in a maroon t-shirt lay face down in the doorway. Or at least I thought his t-shirt was maroon. Then I saw a few patches of white that lay at the bottom and understood that once it had been all white. The maroon, was dried blood." - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Loved the narration and the story. If you are looking for a short story with summer horror vibes u will enjoy it .
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Stephen King is the master. Will Patton is THEE best narrator! He brings Stephen King’s characters to life. Love this book!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of my favorite Stephen King stories and a big inspiration for one of my favorite games, Silent Hill. And read by the always wonderful Will Patton. There's nothing not to love about this one.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It was a bit short. It reminds me of the movie adaptation.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I just finished listening to this, the first Stephen King book and for a horror book, it was great. However, I was expecting it to be more gruesome, gory, horror-y. I will be reading/listening to more by Stephen King, this was good, just not fully what I anticipated
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another fantastic Stephen king story. Phenomenal character and world development. Realistic persona interaction in times of crisis. Traditional king foreshadowing with a few twists. Could have been soooo much longer lol.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The book is good, though the narrator is terrible. He not only has a lisp, but his voice pulls you from getting immersed in the book. Should have used a narrator that sounds at least slightly native especially since King likes to portray real places in Maine.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved it. Chilling and wonderful. I need to go hug my kids and wife extra.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mist is one of those books that lines up with the movie so well and it just feels so ominous. One of the few times King does a first-person POV and one of the few times a first-person POV reads scary, terrifying, and good. As classic as The Mist is, it's hard to really say anything new.
The audiobook has flaws, some vocal jumps or sudden spikes early on, but it too, is a masterpiece. Audiobook, Book, Movie, can't go wrong with any of them. Stay away from the series, after a few episodes it gets awful.
The Mist is a book to be read with From a Buick 8, as they both sound severely connected to one another. It remains one of King's lesser answered mysteries, and I think it's better left that way. Mysterious.2 people found this helpful