Stephen King Collecting Questions

[lophophoras]

Here is the front of the magazine:



Here's the story:

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

...and Tommy tripped over a copy of UNDER THE DOME that had been thrown into the cellar by his !!EVIL!! step nephew twice removed on his father's aunt's cousin's side, who always said "Watch out that you don't trip over a copy of UNDER THE DOME when you're 'a fetchin that thar wood in that thar cellar, BOY!!!" (She [after the botched gender change operation] had said thisa hear saying so many times it was etched into the neurons of Tommy's young, very easily imprinted brain and and and, where the f**k was I anyway? Oh yeah, Tommy bashed that impressionable young brain out of his very own SKULL and it slithered under the furnace to become - another IT!!!!!!!

[gsvec]

[Patrick]

[biomieg]

Hilarious!!!

[Matt]

I think Tommy getting wood in the basement is a metaphor...at least it was for me.

[super sam]

Know Your World Extra - Volume 39 # 2 - September 23, 2005 - 'Write Your Own Scary Story' - (The Furnace)

Thanks for the info. Thought i had the first appearance of The furnace,
but i guess i have to find this issue instead!

[herbertwest]

Know Your World Extra - Volume 39 # 2 - September 23, 2005 - 'Write Your Own Scary Story' - (The Furnace)

Thanks for the info. Thought i had the first appearance of The furnace,
but i guess i have to find this issue instead!

What is the book that you thought had the first publication of the furnace??

[The Library Policeman]

I think Tommy getting wood in the basement is a metaphor...at least it was for me.

[super sam]

Know Your World Extra - Volume 39 # 2 - September 23, 2005 - 'Write Your Own Scary Story' - (The Furnace)

Thanks for the info. Thought i had the first appearance of The furnace,
but i guess i have to find this issue instead!

What is the book that you thought had the first publication of the furnace??

Writing for teens, October 2005 with The Furnace as an insert.

[Room 217 Caretaker]

Know Your World Extra - Volume 39 # 2 - September 23, 2005 - 'Write Your Own Scary Story' - (The Furnace)

Thanks for the info. Thought i had the first appearance of The furnace,
but i guess i have to find this issue instead!

What is the book that you thought had the first publication of the furnace??

Writing for teens, October 2005 with The Furnace as an insert.

Very cool. Me want

Mulleins
Cumberland VA

[herbertwest]

Know Your World Extra - Volume 39 # 2 - September 23, 2005 - 'Write Your Own Scary Story' - (The Furnace)

Thanks for the info. Thought i had the first appearance of The furnace,
but i guess i have to find this issue instead!

What is the book that you thought had the first publication of the furnace??

Writing for teens, October 2005 with The Furnace as an insert.

Very cool. Me want

Mulleins
Cumberland VA

Well Mulleins, if you want it, it might be your lucky day!
Look at the Overlook Connection! Not cheap, but seem to be pretty scarce!

http://overlookconnection.com/catalo...al-p-2918.html
(with a typo error)

[ELazansky]

Are book club books and regular issue books the same exact thing except for the DJ? I'm talking about recent releases, not older books that actually printed something on the CP that said it was a book club edition. For example, if you held a 1/1 of Just After Sunset next to a BCE of it without the jackets, would the books be the same?

[Sam]

I don't think so. The BCE is often a little shorter than the real deal.

HOWEVER, the Stephen King Library sometimes actually sends a true edition rather than a BCE to their customers. I've received a true edition of UTD and Cell recently. I no longer have JAS and so can't compare the two editions.

[jhanic]

I noticed that the Book Club edition of Black House had gold lettering on the spine, while the trade edition had silver. Otherwise the books themselves were identical. Of course, the dust jacket of the Book Club edition was unpriced.

John

[gsvec]

Writing for teens, October 2005 with The Furnace as an insert.

What's irritating is that I have the mag, but no insert!

[herbertwest]

I am re-reading ON WRITING, i have couple questions :

- Steve mention the picture on the back of the regulators, as being a picture on which he is reading a copy of the newspaper/ magazine that published his first story.
I dont see this picture on the back :
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...The+-+Trade+HC

- HAPPY STAMPS : the story sounds good. It havent been published (submitted to the Alfred Hitchcok mag though.. but i guess that this copy was never found?

[Brice]

It may have been rejected by them?

[Randall Flagg]

I am re-reading ON WRITING, i have couple questions :

- Steve mention the picture on the back of the regulators, as being a picture on which he is reading a copy of the newspaper/ magazine that published his first story.
I dont see this picture on the back :
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...The+-+Trade+HC

The picture could be the one on the inside back flap:

[jhanic]

The magazine pictured is Startling Mystery Stories for Fall 1967 that is open to his first professionally published story, The Glass Floor.

John

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

The $35 check he received for the published story is also in the picture.

[carlosdetweiller]

The $35 check he received for the published story is also in the picture.

That's interesting. Do you think he waited that long before cashing the check? Or maybe the pages with "The Glass Floor" are advance sheets for proofing? I suspect he cashed that check right away if money was really as tight as he likes to tell.

[Mr. Rabbit Trick]

I suspect he got the magazine and the check together from the publisher. I think they do that as normal practice. "Paid on Publication".

[carlosdetweiller]

I suspect he got the magazine and the check together from the publisher. I think they do that as normal practice. "Paid on Publication".

That makes sense. I'll bet you are right.

[herbertwest]

It may have been rejected by them?

Would make sense... so now it's lost :-(

Thanks for the picture RF. That's a pretty common one!