"A WORLD THAT ONLY STEPHEN KING COULD HAVE CREATED"

KING, Stephen. Skeleton Crew. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1985). Quarto, original half black cloth, original dust jacket. $350.

First trade edition of King's critically praised collection of stories, featuring classics such as The Monkey, The Raft and The Mist.

Skeleton Crew is "wonderfully gruesome. Don't turn your back on this book… [It] lifts the reader off the page into a world that only Stephen King could have created" (New York Times). The book includes eighteen short stories, two novellas ("The Mist" and "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet"), and two poems, "Paranoid: A Chant" and "For Owen." In an interview in Monsterland magazine, May/June 1985, King remarked that "as far as short stories are concerned, I like the grisly ones the best. However, the story 'Survivor Type' goes a little bit too far, even for me." Many of the stories have been adapted for film and television, some as episodes of The Twilight Zone and Tales from the Dark Side. Preceded by the Scream/Press signed limited first edition of 1000 copies. Brooks A29. Fantasy and Horror 6-205.

Small spot of light staining to text block fore-edge, otherwise a fine copy in an exceptionally nice dust jacket.