Weeds in Shivers VII

[Bev Vincent]

Cemetery Dance Publications is proud to announce the seventh entry in this award-nominated and best-selling anthology series! In addition to the affordable trade paperback edition for general readers, this volume will also be published as a signed Limited Edition hardcover and a signed and traycased Lettered Edition hardcover, both of which will signed by the editor for the collectors!

Shivers VII contains more than 100,000 words of chilling fiction from mroe than two dozen of today's most popular authors of horror and suspense including Stephen King, Clive Barker, Graham Masterton, Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini, Lisa Tuttle, Kaaron Warren, Del James, Lisa Morton, Roberta Lannes, Scott Nicholson, Bev Vincent, Brian James Freeman, Norman Prentiss, and many others.

Of special note to collectors: "Weeds" by Stephen King was originally published in Cavalier magazine in May 1976 (as "Will Be Necessary to Stop the Weeds") and in Nugget magazine in April 1979, but has not been reprinted since, although it was adapted as "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" for Creepshow in 1982. "The Departed" by Clive Barker was originally published as "Hermione and the Moon" in The New York Times on October 30, 1992.

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[Randall Flagg]

[Tito_Villa]

Yay a King Story i haven't read, also a new one by Rio Youers who's work i love too

[mae]

Of special note to collectors: "Weeds" by Stephen King was originally published in Cavalier magazine in May 1976 (as "Will Be Necessary to Stop the Weeds") and in Nugget magazine in April 1979, but has not been reprinted since, although it was adapted as "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" for Creepshow in 1982.

I hate this, and this isn't the first time I've seen this nonsense. "Weeds" was always titled "Weeds", and in its original publication the magazine plastered the first page with the story with the tagline: "More than a green thumb will be necessary to stop the Weeds". Why is that hard to grasp? It's too bad to see misinformation multiply, especially via reputable sources.

[Bev Vincent]

Their information is accurate. The entire heading is in the same font at the same size -- there's no reason to think the story's title is "Weeds" based on this.

[mae]

With all due respect, Bev, that's not the complete tagline, and also it's quite obvious it doesn't make much sense as a title anyway.

[Bev Vincent]

Shall I show you the entire front page? That's all there is -- there's nothing else by way of a title.

[mae]

Right, the first part of the tagline ("More than a green thumb...") should be on the preceding page. I don't have a copy of the magazine handy nor a full scan so I'm going off my memory, so I apologize if I'm mistaken.

[Bev Vincent]

If that's the case -- I don't have a copy that includes the preceding page. I photocopied it from the magazine over a quarter of a century ago!

[Brice]

Bev violated copyright?

[Bev Vincent]

Hence all the sophisticated technology used to mask the text!

[mae]

Surely some of our membership here have the issue in question and can provide a scan of the preceding page or the table of contents?

[jhanic]

These are from the Cavalier. The ones from Nugget are the same except for some minor color differences.

John

[Darkday]

What does it say in the table of contents?

[mae]

That's exactly it, thanks John. Hopefully this is yet another sign pointing toward this story and others, such as The Crate, to appear in an upcoming King collection, whenever that may be.

[Brice]

Hence all the sophisticated technology used to mask the text!

Oh, I know. I was just teasing you for your decades old piracy.

[skyofcrack]

What does it say in the table of contents?

[Ben Staad]

Thanks for posting the TOC.

[mae]

Thanks for posting the TOC.

Yeah, thanks. This is why I'm not sure why this myth of the tagline being the original title of "Weeds" keeps being perpetuated. The phrase is obviously not a title, and especially not the second half of it, which borders on the nonsensical, and the actual title is listed in the table of contents as with any respectable publication That's why I'm somewhat taken aback that a reputable source such as Cemetery Dance would say ""Weeds" by Stephen King was originally published in Cavalier magazine in May 1976 (as "Will Be Necessary to Stop the Weeds")". Rocky Wood's Unpublished, Uncollected also makes mention of the tagline as though it's the story's actual title. Sorry if I'm making too big a deal out of this. Just a longtime pet-peeve.

[jhanic]

Weeds has been one of my favorite stories by King that has never been republished. It's much darker than the campy Jordy Verrill story out of Creepshow.

John

[mae]

Weeds has been one of my favorite stories by King that has never been republished. It's much darker than the campy Jordy Verrill story out of Creepshow.

John

And like I said, now that The Crate was also recently republished, hopefully that leads to at least these two forgotten stories being finally collected the next time King decides to put out a collection.

[jhanic]

The Crate has been reprinted a few times (check out Brooks' Bibliography, but Weeds has NEVER been reprinted. And I really don't understand why.

John

[mae]

Was The Crate ever republished between Creepshow and Shivers VI last year? I'm not sure, at any rate, both are great stories and it's a mystery to me too why neither made it to an official King collection. Weeds should've gone into Night Shift and The Crate into Skeleton Crew, chronologically speaking.

Seems like King may have had something against some of his late 1970s stories, or simply forgot when the time came to compile a collection. The bulk of his best uncollected fiction is in that 1976-79 time-frame: Weeds (1976), The Night of the Tiger (1978), Man with a Belly (1978), The Crate (1979), and of course The Cat From Hell (1977), which was just collected in 2008.

[Brice]

He could do a mini collection of forgotten stories. LOL

[Bev Vincent]

Was The Crate ever republished between Creepshow and Shivers VI last year?

Yes, it was in The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural in 1981. King also wrote the introduction to that anthology.