"HE SOMETIMES BELIEVED THAT THE COMPULSION TO MAKE FICTION WAS NO MORE THAN A BULWARK AGAINST CONFUSION, MAYBE EVEN INSANITY": THE DARK HALF, INSCRIBED BY STEPHEN KING

KING, Stephen. The Dark Half. New York: Viking, (1989). Octavo, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $2500.

First American edition, issued only days after the English edition, of King's "wonderfully frightening" novel, inscribed on the title page by him: "For Harry—with best wishes—Stephen King 6/14/95."

Stephen King's "Dark Half is a parable in chiller form of the popular writer's relation to his creative genius, the vampire within him, the part of him that only awakes to raise Cain when he writes" (New York Times). King's story of a writer haunted by his own pseudonym is "wondrously frightening… among the best of his voluminous work" (Publisher's Weekly). Adapted to the screen in 1993 by director George Romero. First American edition: issued almost immediately after the English edition.

Fine condition.