The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia - The Shape Under the Sheet - Hardcover

Stephen J. Spignesi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560750189 ISBN 13: 9781560750185

Publisher: Popular Culture Ink, 1991

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From the Publisher:

This book, coming in at over 800 pages (and six pounds!) contains Everything KING! Interviews, 18,000 entries of People, Places and Things (this took the author five years to produce!). I am very proud to have had the oppurtunity to publish this book, and as a limited it features so many more extras than the trade editions.

From Library Journal:

This monstrous volume, admits author/compiler Spignesi, "is for the King reader who literally wants to know everything they possibly can about the World of King." That aptly sums up Spignesi's book, grandiose aims, careless grammar, and all. Besides indexing King's published and unpublished works (a job that takes up about half the book's length), Spignesi provides brief primary and secondary bibliographies, a publishing history and table of contents for the King newsletter Castle Rock , and detailed discussions of recordings and film adaptations. There are interviews with King's secretary, brother, critics, admirers, collectors, and others, stories and (very bad) poems by many of these same individuals, and even bibliographies of the works of these peripheral players. Finally, there are more than a dozen pieces that Spignesi himself finds unclassifiable, including an embarrassing dissection of "The Three Levels of Stephen King Fandom." In short, this is a volume whose coverage and organization makes it of marginal reference value, but it is also of enormous potential interest to King's readers. Libraries that already own such basic volumes as The Stephen King Companion (LJ 11/15/84) will need to decide whether this new work's cur rency and level of detail justify its stiff price. The publisher notes that this is a collector's edition, with only 3000 copies being printed, thus the cost.--Ed.
-Grove Koger, Boise P.L., Id.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Popular Culture Ink
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 1560750189
• ISBN 13: 9781560750185
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 780