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Publisher: Everest House, Berkley Trade
Publication Date: 1981
Binding: dj/HC
Signed: Signed & Inscribed by author
Edition: First Edition - First Printing

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Product Code: SK865

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Stephen King: DANSE MACABRE ; New York: Everest House Publisher 1981.
First edition. Number 183 of 250 numbered copies signed by King. Winner of the 1982 Hugo award for best nonfiction book.

VERY RARE !! ONE OF ONLY 250 EVER MADE!!

King's second signed limited edition! His first non-fiction book.

Condition
Fine. Free of markings, writings, or stampings. Un-clipped dust-jacket free of stains, tears, creases, etc. A well-cared for book, protected from any potential damage. The binding is uniform and tight, pages clean, and with no scuffs, marks, dents, bruises, etc. This book stands out as having had exemplary care. Spine lettering clear and unfaded. There is a tiny area on the slipcase that is chipped. A wonderful bright clean copy. Excellent condition for your Stephen King library.

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Additional Book Information

Danse Macabre is a nonfiction book by Stephen King on horror fiction and United States pop culture, published in 1981.

Danse Macabre examines the various influences on King's own writing, and important genre texts of the 20th century. Focusing on horror and suspense films, comic books, old time radio, television and fiction from a fan's perspective, King peppers his book with informal academic insight, discussing archetypes, important authors, common narrative devices, "the psychology of terror", and his key theory of "Dionysian horror."

In a footnote to the first edition, King credits Bill Thompson, the editor of his first five published novels, and later editor at Doubleday, as being the inspiration for its creation.

"...Bill called me and said, 'Why don't you do a book about the entire horror phenomenon as you see it?' Books, movies, radio, TV, the whole thing. We'll do it together, if you want.'
The concept intrigued and frightened me at the same time."
Thompson ultimately convinced King that if he wrote such a genre survey, he would no longer have to answer tedious, repetitive interview questions on the topic. King agreed to write his non-fiction appraisal of the horror genre, mostly limiting the scope of Danse Macabre from the 1950s to the 1980s (roughly the era covering King's own life), and using King's college teaching notes as the backbone of the text.