Cemetery has announced a return to Stephen King's "Doubleday Years." Six volumes that will include Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, Night Shift, The Stand and Pet Sematary. Carrie will feature an introduction by Stephen King and an afterword by Tabitha King. It also features six color paintings by Tomislav Tikulin, and "Special Bonus Features Exclusive to This Edition!" What's that mean? I dunno.
It's interesting that the Doubleday books were cheaply produced with sometimes awkward covers. Who was that on the cover of Carrie? Is Cemetery Dance purposefully righting this wrong?
From Cemetery Dance:
www.cemeterydance.comThese are the books that launched King's career and made him a household name, and our special editions will be beautiful and oversized volumes like we've published for From a Buick 8, It, Doctor Sleep, and many other King books over the years.
The first title in this special six volume set is Carrie, which will be published later this year and is available for preorder immediately. Other volumes in this series will follow approximately every six months after that and several acclaimed artists are already creating stunning art for these books. These special editions will feature exclusive bonus features such as introductions, afterwords, artwork, and even deleted material in some cases.
We expect extremely strong demand for these special editions of Stephen King's extraordinarily popular early books, and collectors who preorder Carrie directly from us will be the first collectors offered the opportunity to order the next volume before the general public.
Please note that our last Stephen King Gift Edition sold out in just ONE WEEK, so please don't wait because you could miss out and there will be NO second printings.
"These were the ghosts which kept trying to come between me and what I was writing, kept insisting that I combine them, somehow, into a story that would tell what could have happened if there really was such a thing as telekinetic energy..."— Stephen King, from the introductionSpecial Features Exclusive To This Deluxe Special Edition:
• An introduction by Stephen King detailing why he wrote the book
• A lengthy afterword by Tabitha King discussing the book's unbridled exploration of adolescent terror, sexuality, and the unknown
• Deluxe oversized design (7 inches X 10 inches) featuring two color interior printing as part of the page design
• Printed on a heavy interior specialty paper stock that is much thicker than the paper in a normal trade edition
• Epic wrap-around full-color dust jacket artwork by Tomislav Tikulin
• A different full-color dust jacket for the Artist Edition painted by Tomislav Tikulin
• Six full-color interior paintings by Tomislav Tikulin
• Interior artwork will be printed on a heavy glossy stock and tipped into the book
• High-quality embossed endpapers and fine bindings for all editions
• Full-page reproduction of the telegram Doubleday editor Bill Thompson sent Stephen King to announce the publisher was buying the book
• Extremely collectible print run that is a tiny fraction of the TENS OF MILLIONS of copies of this novel you've seen in bookstores over the last 40 years!
Get it at cemeterydance.com
I dig the cover; that, the Tabitha King afterword, and the telegram reproduction were enough to get to plunk down some money on this one.
ReplyDeleteI'll probably get the others as well. Sigh...
I like the cover, too. Kind of a spoiler, though.
ReplyDeleteWell, yeah, but at this point, who doesn't know how that story ends?
ReplyDeleteI try to be surprised every time.
ReplyDeleteWell let's just hope that the "special bonus features exclusive to this edition" are, in fact, Stephen's first name and then his last, signed by, who else, but him. *fingers crossed* ...
ReplyDeleteKing did not sign these editions of "Carrie."
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