I'd love a Pet Sematary S/L
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Wanted:
Michael Whelan & DT Original Art
Looking for:
- Philtrum Press Eyes of the Dragon RED #165
- Fine Viking Eyes of the Dragon proof
I'd say, when it comes to alien-oriented SK novels, The Tommyknockers holds up pretty well when compared to Dreamcatcher.
You can't be aloof until you advertise.
I think we have a thread on this subject.
I'll look around.
Here is a similar thread. I feel a merge coming on.
This book was created for private commission
It is one of only three copies; what I like to call the Flagg editions
Using a true U.S. Trade First Edition of Stephen King’s “Different Seasons” each of the four stories has been separately bound in chocolate Italian goatskin
Original art has been stamped into the cover of each book, and slipcase. One book set stamped in red, one in white, and one in blue
All books feature special endpapers representing the four different seasons we all live and die by
Many unique things are inside, only to be discovered by the person who holds the book
Jerome Smith (Aka Randall Flagg)TheDarkTower.org
I'm on board!
Dragline : Nothin'. A handful of nothin'. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin'. Just like today when he kept comin' back at me - with nothin'.
Luke : Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
I would love to do a s/l edition of The Mist. The dj text could be represented by threads of spider silk. Maybe along the spine of the dj, a tentacle. I would love to see interior color illustrations as a gallery of monsters/creatures.
The physical style of the book could be similar to Cycle of the Werewolf, glossy pages, maybe not as oversized. This would give it a "picture" book feeling IMO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mist sets the # of pages in Skeleton Crew at 134 so the book wouldn't be huge.
Wants:
Insomnia S/L
Joyland S/L
Have:
Doctor Sleep - CD PC copy
Very Best of Best New Horror - PC copy
Smoke and Mirrors - PC copy
PS Publishing Anniversary editions set
It just occurred to me that a post I left (in 2017) might sensibly be repeated here.
It describes a different direction one might go in for an edition of It (different from CD's existing one).
T-Dogz had raised the idea of CD doing a Viking years set (akin to the Doubleday Years set) and I began by asking if he envisioned CD doing another run of It or skipping it because they'd already done one; this question led me to imagine a completely different way to do it, I wrote the details down there, and repeat them here:
- broken into two volumes (because they already did a single-volume edition; why not differentiate it, and this could mean some kind of super-thick paper);
- illustrations that don't focus on individuals (no close shots, no faces), instead focusing on "wide-angle" scenes: think the canal, the Barrens (both of which can come across as pretty damn ominous with nothing happening in them), The Black Spot in flames with the bird overhead, or the entire grounds of the Kitchener Ironworks, both on the day of the easter egg hunt and on the day Mike is wandering around the ruins, and most especially, a long shot of the final time they leave the Barrens one by one (the "No one talks; they climb the embankment to Kansas Street and simply take leave of one another..." section, which still gives me chills to read, even now - Goddamnit this is a good book) - that could be like an aerial shot encompassing the Barrens and the surrounding streets; there's lots that could be done this way;
- the sole exception to "no close shots/no faces" would be Pennywise, but even then, it should avoid multiple shots of him as a clown, instead using single shots of his various guises (think Dracula in the library: "An ancient man-thing with a face like a twisted root" - that is nuts - or the Mummy: "There were bandages, most of them around its neck & wrists, blowing back in the wind, but Ben could see the clown's face clearly. It was deeply lined, the skin a parchment map of wrinkles, tattered cheeks, arid flesh") - I would like these illustrations to be sufficiently horrible (and not in a "bucket of blood"/Friday the 13th way - I just mean the total opposite of pulp/camp) that you would want to hide this book from young children (other than for the fact that little hands do large damage to nice things, of course);
- everything (interior and exterior art and printing etc., even the ribbon page marker) done with a very dark palette - either black or gray or so dark it looks like it (maybe with a very few touches of red - maybe), with images that are more harsh, weathered and stony in character than anything else. I am not well-versed in the world of horror art and artists, but when trying to find something close to what I had in mind I found these:
...this is a bit smoother than what I have in mind, but is close.
...this one has a bit more color than I would like, and of course looks a bit too much like a video game still, but otherwise isn't far from what I have in mind.
Ok, I've talked myself into CD It v2.
Or, given all the dark/black/gray etc., maybe what I've actually described is what a Centipede Press It would look like.
I later added:
...and an illustration of this scene (ok to use a deep navy blue for the sky on this!):
"He’s the last to go. He stands for a long time with his hands on the rickety white fence, looking down into the Barrens as, overhead, the first stars seed the summer sky. He stands under the blue and over the black and watches the Barrens fill up with darkness."
That would be my choice to close the thing.
You can't be aloof until you advertise.
There will be three sets made. One stamped in red, one stamped in white, and one stamped in blue. Each set goes to a different person. Two sets are 100% committed to, and the third set has someone with first dibs once the price is finalized. If the person declines, I'll either keep it, or sell it here or on ebay.
Stop teasing (tempting) me! Is it really that easy (relatively)?
Wants:
Insomnia S/L
Joyland S/L
Have:
Doctor Sleep - CD PC copy
Very Best of Best New Horror - PC copy
Smoke and Mirrors - PC copy
PS Publishing Anniversary editions set