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Beautifully signed by Stephen King at title page: "Stephen King". Original recipient had this title signed (along with two others) at the Savannah Book Festival, February 19th, 2012, where Stephen King was present to promote the 2012 release of "11/22/63". Includes original numbered pictorial bookmark #046 which served as ticket. The in-laws assisted as SK signed one per person in the audience. Stated First Scribner hardcover edition, November 2010; full numberline beginning w/1. Grey matte boards, black cloth spine wrap, red metallic spine titles, fine. Pages fine, clean. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Original pictorial wrapper, fine; unclipped 27.99, protected in new clear sleeve. Rare near fine signed first printing in same wrapper with titled slipcase of this award-winning collection. Set in is color print-out of signee with three volumes in hand about to be signed with Stephen working the pen at table with busy assistants surrounding. Deep red, smooth glossy, custom slip-case featuring luminescent glowing cover and spine titles with vignettes, near fine; moderate rub, scuff to bottom. Back panel of case features objects emblematic for each of the novellas: an irregular star, as if by hand; a water well; a locked toolbox; and small dice hanging from a rearview. Presented here are four tantilizing novellas of retribution, or revenge. Like "Different Seasons" and "Four Past Midnight," which generated enduring films including "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Stand by Me," "Full Dark, No Stars" proves Stephen King a master of the novella. "1922" is set in Hemingford Home, Nebraska, which is the home of Mother Abagail from King's epic novel The Stand (1978), the town the adult Ben Hanscom moves to in "It" (1986), and the setting of the short story "The Last Rung on the Ladder" (1978). "I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger . . ." writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up "1922," the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerizing tale. For Wilfred James, that stranger is awakened when his wife, Arlette, proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness. In "Big Driver," a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself. "Fair Extension," the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Dave Streeter from fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment. When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends "A Good Marriage," the finale in this thrilling quartet. "If a master of horror and heebie-jeebies like Stephen King calls his book 'Full Dark, No Stars,' you know you re in for a treat if your idea of a good time is spent curled up in a ball wondering why-oh-why you started reading after dark. King fans (and those who have always wanted to give him a shot) will devour this collection of campfire tales where marriages sway under the weight of pitch-black secrets, greed and guilt poison and fester, and the only thing you can count on is that "there are always worse things waiting." Full Dark, No Stars features four one-sitting yarns showcasing King at his gritty, gruesome, giddy best, so be sure to check under the bed before getting started." - Daphne Durham Manufactured in the United States of America. 368 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
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