ONE STORY FOR EVERY YEAR OF THE 20TH CENTURY: SIGNED BY STEPHEN KING

(KING, Stephen). PELAN, John, editor. The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Baltimore: Cemetery Dance, 2011. Two volumes. Thick octavo, original full black foil-stamped faux leather, original dust jackets, publisher's matching traycase. $2500.

Deluxe limited first edition, copy VV of only 52 lettered copies printed, signed on the limitation page in volume II by 14 of the then-living contributors including Stephen King, Thomas Ligotti, Elizabeth Massie and Ramsey Campbell.

For this massive compilation, the editor "selected one story published during each year of the century (1901-2000) as the most notable story of that year. The ground rules were simple: Only one selection per author. Only one selection per year. All of that adds up to two huge volumes, one hundred authors, one hundred classic stories, over 700,000 words of fiction—history in the making!" Luminaries represented here include Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Shirley Jackson, Robert Bloch, Charles Beaumont, Jack Ketchum, Gary Brandner, Dennis Etchison, Michael Bishop, Ramsey Campbell, David Schow, Joe R. Lansdale, Elizabeth Massie, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Poppy Z. Brite, Lucy Taylor, Stephen Laws, Brian Hodge, H.G. Wells, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Norman Spinrad, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, Manly Wade Wellman, Theodore Sturgeon and many others.

In fine condition.