Book Collection: John_Kenton

[John_Kenton]

Hi you guys,

the collections on display here are simply amazing. :thumbsup: None too spectacular items in my house, but I'll post some stuff anyway... main areas of interest are not so much with s/l books but with a wide range of nonfiction, anthologies, mags and stuff like that. Did I ever believe a copy of Ladies' Home Journal would enter my mailbox? Ah well...

[jhanic]

Looking forward to seeing your collection!

Welcome aboard!

John

[John_Kenton]

Okay... starting out with some Twilight Zone magazines...http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/John_Kenton/Magazines/IMG_0060.jpghttp://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/John_Kenton/Magazines/IMG_0061.jpghttp://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/John_Kenton/Magazines/IMG_0062.jpghttp://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/John_Kenton/Magazines/IMG_0063.jpghttp://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/John_Kenton/Magazines/IMG_0064.jpg

[John_Kenton]

Omni, February 1987 "What's Scaring Stephen King" nonfiction
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[John_Kenton]

Locus October 1992 / Fritz Leiber http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/John_Kenton/Magazines/IMG_0074.jpghttp://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/John_Kenton/Magazines/IMG_0077.jpgobituary

[John_Kenton]

Ladies Home Journal, October 1981 / The Monster in the Closet (Cujo excerpt)
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[John_Kenton]

Weirdbook 19 (1984) / Gramma
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[ur2ndbiggestfan]

Like, ditto man!

[John_Kenton]

Yeah, thanks... the mod will have to clear the way tho, I reckon...

[Randall Flagg]

Locus October 1992 / Fritz Leiber http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/John_Kenton/Magazines/IMG_0074.jpghttp://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/John_Kenton/Magazines/IMG_0077.jpgobituary
For those interested, the October, 1992 issue of Locus is available for order.

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[Merlin1958]

Great Item!!! Keep 'em coming!!!!

Maybe a Mod can amend the thread title to include his name?????

[Ben Staad]

Nice first post. Maybe like Merlin hinted at this can be "moved" and renamed to the "coolections" thread.

[John_Kenton]

Sourcebook 1982 "My High School Horrors"
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[John_Kenton]

Ladies Home Journal Oct 1981 "The Monster in the Closet" (Cujo excerpt)

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Locus Nov 1992 Fritz Leiber obituary

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[John_Kenton]

Omni Oct 1986 "The End of the Whole Mess"

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Omni Feb 1987 "What's Scaring Stephen King" on censorship
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Mystery Scene #30 (1991) Letter from SK on illegit German editions

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[John_Kenton]

World Series 1991 Yearbook "Perfect Games, Shared Memories"

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Fantasy Review Jan 1984 "A letter from Stephen King"

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Fantasy Review Jun 1984 "Dr Seuss and the Two Faces of Fantasy"

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Fantasy Review #91 (May 1986) letter "King Vs. Chalker, One Last Round"
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[DanishCollector]

Keep them coming. Yay!

[John_Kenton]

Some Twilight Zone Magazines

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[Tito_Villa]

Very interesting!

[biomieg]

I like it a lot! This is an area that I'm slowly working on too (I'm progressing more or less chronologically though, most of the magazines I own are 'pre-Carrie'). Looking forward to seeing the rest.

One of the things I like about magazine appearances of short stories (other than that it's often the first publication) is that they are usually accompanied by a nice illustration.

[Stockerlone]

Welcome, some nice stuff!!!

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

I have a sneaking suspicion that you collect magazines with King stories/articles in them.

[John_Kenton]

I have a sneaking suspicion that you collect magazines with King stories/articles in them.

well... how on earth did that materialize? :drool:

[John_Kenton]

I like it a lot! This is an area that I'm slowly working on too (I'm progressing more or less chronologically though, most of the magazines I own are 'pre-Carrie'). Looking forward to seeing the rest.

One of the things I like about magazine appearances of short stories (other than that it's often the first publication) is that they are usually accompanied by a nice illustration.

I totally agree on that. Plus, most of the nonfiction pieces have never been reprinted. And there's some pretty hefty variations between story appearances between mags, anthos and collections, of course...

[frik]

Like what I see here - love to see more!

sk

[John_Kenton]

Cinefantastique 2/1991 "King on Firestarter: Who's to Blame?"

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[John_Kenton]

World Fantasy Convention '82 "Peter Straub: An Informal Appreciation"

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World Fantasy Convention 1983 "A Profile of Robert Bloch"

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[John_Kenton]

Rolling Stone 12/27/79-1/10/80 "The Horrors of '79"

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Rolling Stone College Papers 1982, "Mentors" article about King and Burton Hatlen

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[John_Kenton]

Spin, Apr 1986 "Hello Mary Lou, Goodbye Rick"

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Penthouse (German), Aug 1985 "Wenn der Milchmann kommt" ("Morning Deliveries - Milkman#1")

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Playboy (German) Nov 1984, "Taste des Todes" ("Word Processor of the Gods")

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Lui (German), 1981 "Wer im Penthouse sitzt, sollte nicht um Liebe spielen" ("The Ledge")

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[John_Kenton]

Please tell me if I'm violating some decency codes here when posting skin mag covers... not sure about that?!

Adelina, books review columns, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Nov 1980

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[John_Kenton]

The New Yorker, 1/29/2001 "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away"
one of my favourite short stories...

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The New Yorker 12/24-31/2001 "The Death of Jack Hamilton"

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The New Yorker, 12/28/98 "Leaf-Peepers"

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[needfulthings]

Dear John Can you post a better photo or scan of the King letter to Berry Levin about The Mist from Mystery Scene #30. THANK YOU

[John_Kenton]

Sorry guys... I hope you understand that I'll not be reproducing anything here as scan or photo in its entire appearance... the way my collection was built (including transcripts of stuff I don't have myself) was always on a 1:1 swap basis with other collectors. If you feel we might be able to establish such a basis, of course, I'am always open for that ;-) ...again, hope you'll understand that... don't know how other people on here handle this?

[John_Kenton]

Cavalier May 1976 "Weeds"
great story at that!

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[John_Kenton]

Oui, Jan 1978 "The Fright Report"

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Playboy Jan 1981 "Why We Crave Horror Movies"

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Playboy Jan 1982 "Between Rock and a Soft Place" and "Visit with an Endangered Species"

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[John_Kenton]

Esquire Jul 2007 "The Gingerbread Girl"

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[John_Kenton]

Esquire Jul 2003 "Rest Stop"

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[Randall Flagg]

Fascinating stuff.

[DanishCollector]

Agree. More, please:)

[biomieg]

How many magazines do you have in your collection?

[John_Kenton]

There's a couple more, but then there's some books as well...

[jhanic]

I like those German magazines. I've never seen them before.

John

[John_Kenton]

Yeah... the girls' hairstyles in the mags are a bit outdated, though...

I believe they were German edition translations of stuff held by Playboy Inc. or Penthouse. As for the Morning Deliveries translation, it must have been prepublication of the story's appearance in the first of three paperback books Skeleton Crew was initially split in Germany... or was that magazine published after the book? Would have to check that out...

[John_Kenton]

Alright... this just in today, the first paperback of Carrie by Heyne, published in 1977 as a reprint of the hardcover edition done by Franz Schneekluth Verlag (that was the first ever book by King published in Germany). This is by all rights the very first King paperback ever published in Germany... clearly on behalf of the movie. This was later reprinted by Bastei Lübbe Verlag, who did most of the Doubleday and early Viking books in German trade paperbacks and later paperbacks in the early 80s... If you want me to tell you how much I spent for it, well, I believe around 2 or 3 dollars worth...

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[Stockerlone]

The 3 german paperbacks - Skeleton Crew - published 1986+87
im morgengrauen
der gesang der toten
der fornit

[John_Kenton]

Some TV Guide issues...

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[John_Kenton]

Gauntlet (1991) featuring the revised version of "The Dreaded X"... Now THAT is an essay worth reprinting...

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[John_Kenton]

This is an obituary and warm reminiscence of John D. MacDonald published in The Mystery Scene Reader in 1987.

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[John_Kenton]

The Red Sox Reader featuring a reprint of the newspaper article "'86 Was Just the Ticket"

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Grande Illusions by Tom Savini feturing King's foreword

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Another introduction, this one for Saturday Night at Moody's Diner by Tim Sample

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[John_Kenton]

This is something special..... a Donald Duck comic book featuring a parody on THE SHINING called "Die Schreiung" (hard to translate, maybe something like "The Crying"). Note those nifty allusions in the panels... It was published in Die tollsten Geschichten von Donald Duck Sonderheft, Heft 207, Egmont Ehapa Verlag. Oh, wait. Originally it was called The Quacking by Pat & Carol McGreal, the artist was Vicar. I don't know when it as published... must have been August or September 2004 in this edition, don't know about the American one.

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[jhanic]

That's hilarious!

John

[John_Kenton]

Thought so, too... I believe it must have been published in the US as well...

[Niels]

In the Netherlands, the Donald Duck was published in october 2005. The story is called "De Dreining".

Quick search : In the US; Donald Duck #335

[John_Kenton]

In light of King's candid confessions about his booze and drug habits, you may want to check this out... it's an article on "Booze & the Writer" published in Writer's Digest, Oct 1978. Several writers filled in a "boozing questonnaire", including King. Interesting quote from that article: "I like to write when I'm drunk. I've never had any particular problem writing that way, although I never wrote anything that was worth a dime while under the influence of pot or any of the hallucinogenics. ... Writers who drink constantly do not last long, but a writer who drinks carefully is probably a better writer."

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And another Writer's Digest, this one from January 1979, featuring "An Interview with Myself"

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[John_Kenton]

Murderess Ink (1979), including "How to Scare a Woman to Death" and also an article "Living with the Bogeyman" by Tabitha King. Well worth tracking down for the latter, although I do remember King's essay was a bit on the light side.

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[John_Kenton]

Horripilations including "On J.K. Potter: The Art of the Morph" The artwork in that book (including a couple of works from the Scream/Press Skeleton Crew) is unbelievable.

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Archie Americana: Best of the Forties, including "The Importance of Being Archie"

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[John_Kenton]

You all know this, of course. It's The Far Side Gallery 2 by Gary Larson, one of my favourite cartoonists... King's introduction here was "On the Far Side"

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Mr. Monster's Movie Gold, featuring "The Importance of Being Forry" (not Archie, this time...)

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[John_Kenton]

The two Weird Tales from 1990 and 1991, reprinted "The Glass Floor" and "It Grows On You"...

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[John_Kenton]

The Paris Review, "Ayana"

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The Arbor House Celebrity Book of Horror Stories, with an introduction to some stories King picked for this volume

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[John_Kenton]

Whispers #11/12, "The Doll Who Ate His Mother"
Whispers #17/18, "Before the Play" & "It Grows On You"

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[John_Kenton]

Some introductions:
Transsylvania Station, by Donald E. Westlake and Abby Westlake
Tales from the Nightside, by Charles L. Grant
Tales by Moonlight, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson
Scars, Richard Christian Matheson
Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In, by Joe Bob Briggs

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[John_Kenton]

Jim Thompson, Now and On Earth, great book, great intro

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An even greater novel: The Ideal, Genuine Man by Don Robertson published by King's Philtrum Press. Lengthy introduction by King.

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[John_Kenton]

Something of an oddity: Here for Generations, with yet another introduction by Stephen King

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Harlan Ellison, Stalking the Nightmare, intro by King

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[John_Kenton]

Horror: 100 Best Books, featuring King's entry on Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco

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[DanishCollector]

Is that the first priting/edition of Murderess Ink? I just seem to recall that the first hardcover had a different cover.

[John_Kenton]

Finally for now... a couple of years ago when I was bored one day I typed up all the Garbage Truck columns for myself for better reading, glued the pages, bound them in a small paperback of exactly one copy (the only "book" I ever made) and from time to time I carry this round with me in my pocket (conveniently wrapped up in some rough transparent foil), and cradle this neat little thing from time to time :drool:

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[John_Kenton]

Is that the first priting/edition of Murderess Ink? I just seem to recall that the first hardcover had a different cover.

No, it's the second printing of the trade paperback.

[John_Kenton]

The 3 german paperbacks - Skeleton Crew - published 1986+87
im morgengrauen
der gesang der toten
der fornit

You're right... but I believe Im Morgengrauen was first published in the autumn of 1985.

[John_Kenton]

This is a wall in my living room, stuffed with books from top to bottom... though only a minor portion of it Stephen King ;-)
I'm also collecting classic ghost story anthologies and some paperback and trade paperback series published from the 60s through the 80s in the horror/sf field in Germany.
BTW Stephen King books are third row from top, arranged chronologically from left to right, separated German from English and American editions. It's not something I've spent much energy on, though. Sometime in the nineties, I stopped buying German editions and started to grab English hardbacks, sometimes they were cheaper than the German editions...

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[John_Kenton]

This just in... More Tales of Unknown Horror, ed Peter Haining, published in January 1979 by NEL and featuring the first British appearance of "The Night of the Tiger" I recently branched out in anthologies containing King stuff, there should be about 50 of them coming my way in the next couple of weeks...

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[Ben Staad]

Great wall of books! It looks like a really nice environment to read in.

[John_Kenton]

Thanks... yes, I do enjoy it a lot. It was something I wanted to do for a long time.

[Randall Flagg]

Absolutely gorgeous wall of books. It looks stunning.

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

I must say I'm impressed with all the publications you have pictured here!
Also, very nice book collection! Don't worry, I can't read German so I guess I won't borrow any unless some are in English.

[John_Kenton]

Well, I'll have to free some shelf space when the new arrivals come trickling in... :panic:

[Stockerlone]

Well, I'll have to free some shelf space when the new arrivals come trickling in... :panic:

The bookwall looks great, but i think 2-3 lines of books in one row is a MUST:nana:
Bookshelves = Bending wood :scared:

[John_Kenton]

Penthouse, July 1976 & March 1977
"The Ledge"
"Children of the Corn"

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Penthouse September 1988, excerpt from Nightmares in the Sky

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[John_Kenton]

GQ, July 1984 "My First Car

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Mademoiselle, November 1985 "What Ails the U.S. Male: Fire and Ice Cream"

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[John_Kenton]

Some anthologies:

Chamber of Horrors (1984), "The Night of the Tiger"

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The Garden of Reading (2004), "The Lawnmower Man"

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65 Spine Chillers (1982), "Suffer the Little Children"

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Tales of Dungeons and Dragons (1986), "The Mangler"

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Magicats (1984), "The Cat from Hell"

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[Cook]

This is a wall in my living room, stuffed with books from top to bottom... though only a minor portion of it Stephen King ;-)
I'm also collecting classic ghost story anthologies and some paperback and trade paperback series published from the 60s through the 80s in the horror/sf field in Germany.
BTW Stephen King books are third row from top, arranged chronologically from left to right, separated German from English and American editions. It's not something I've spent much energy on, though. Sometime in the nineties, I stopped buying German editions and started to grab English hardbacks, sometimes they were cheaper than the German editions...

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John_Kenton, Very nice collection !
Impressive bookcase display as well.
Congratulations

[John_Kenton]

The 17th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, including "The Reaper's Image"

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Thrilling, Chilling Tales of Alien Encounters, including "I Am the Doorway"

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[John_Kenton]

Antaeus: The Final Issue #75/76, including "Blind Willie"

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A Treasury of American Horror Stories, including "Children of the Corn"

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[John_Kenton]

New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, including Crouch End"

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Dark Love, including "Lunch at the Gotham Café"

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[Ari_Racing]

Absolutely astonishing collection!!! Congratulations! :)

[Merlin1958]

Very nice collection. I especially like the "Uniqueness" of a lot of items!!!


Well done!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[John_Kenton]

Okay folks, got stuck at the publishing house (no in-joke there, I'm a journalist ;-)) and had a notebook crash, but it's nice to see the path along the beam is still there... let's see how to continue.

This is the first German edition of 'Salem's Lot, which was published as a hardback by Zsolnay in 1979. This is before Stephen King became widely known in Germany.

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[John_Kenton]

I don't know if you're interested in the German publishing history of Stephen King. To put it briefly, after two publishing houses did CARRIE (Schneekluth) and 'SALEM'S LOT (Zsolnay) in hardback, there were a couple of paperbck reprints, but it was only when Bastei-Luebbe (one of the major paperback publishers in German) acquired the rights to the early novels and stories that the Stephen King phenomenon started to shape in Germany. Bastei did CARRIE, THE SHINING, NIGHT SHIFT, THE STAND, FIRESTARTER, CUJO, DIFFERENT SEASONS, CYCLE OF THE WEREWOLF and CHRISTINE in oversized trade paperbacks and I believe they had a huge success.

Starting in 1985, the new novels began to appear as hardbacks at Hoffmann & Campe, unfortunately rather dull-looking dust jackets, as you can see. Later Heyne reprinted these books in paperbacks, but started to publish newer works directly in paperbacks, trade paperbacks, and occasionally hardbacks. These are the Hoffmann & Campe hardbacks:
1985 FRIEDHOF DER KUSCHELTIERE (Pet Sematary)
1986 DER TALISMAN (The Talisman)
1988 DAS MONSTRUM (The Tommyknockers)
1990 STARK (The Dark Half)
1991 IN EINER KLEINEN STADT (Needful Things)

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[Randall Flagg]

Faszinierend. Danke.

[John_Kenton]

Now here's something I collect as well, sf and weird fiction books. This is one of the two pioneering hardcover ventures in Germany, a series called BIBLIOTHEK DES HAUSES USHER which was published by distinguished literary publishing house Insel Verlag from 1969 to 1975. I am missing two volumes by Le Fanu yet, but these are the other 24. They were mostly printed on green paper and had that slightly unusual page format, but what makes them really stand out is the ingenious cover art. These volumes are sought after on the German market (well at least among the dozen or so collectors who bother ;-) Especially the Lovecraft volumes were the books that really made his name with the German reading public.

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[John_Kenton]

Speaking of Lovecraft, this is the first book of his stories to have been published in Germany. It appeared as #12 of a trade paperback/paperback series called HEYNE ANTHOLOGIEN back in 1965 (funny, as it is not technically speaking an anthology at all but a collection). The entire series ran from 1964 to 1979. I have all but four volumes - they published sf, horror, western, and crime anthologies, among them a fair number of classic tomes by the likes of Peter Haining, Kurt Singer, and Harlan Ellison.

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[ur2ndbiggestfan]

All very interesting!

[Stockerlone]

It´s nice to see the ´good old ´H & C Stephen King hardcover books.:thumbsup:
Your Salem 79 Zsolnay looks great and i LOVE the BIBLIOTHEK DES HAUSES USHER !!!

[Cook]

John Kenton,
Very impressive, I've never seen these before.




Okay folks, got stuck at the publishing house (no in-joke there, I'm a journalist ;-)) and had a notebook crash, but it's nice to see the path along the beam is still there... let's see how to continue.

This is the first German edition of 'Salem's Lot, which was published as a hardback by Zsolnay in 1979. This is before Stephen King became widely known in Germany.

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[John_Kenton]

Yes... I have very fond memories of certain books (in certain editions, that is very important) when I think back on how and when I read them first. I guess that's what they call nostalgia for the good old times ;-) The 'SALEM'S LOT in that Zsolnay edition was the first King novel I read (the first book being NIGHT SHIFT) way back in the summer of 1990. It brings back very personal memories on being sixteen (and a few other things ;-) With THE TALISMAN, I remember coming to a point where I got stuck somewhere in the first part of the book and thought, will this be the first King book I won't finish? I'm glad I did finish it. I still love that book and cherish the experience of that first read. Same goes for THE STAND.