KING, Stephen.
Danse Macabre.
New York: Everest House, 1981.
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First Edition of Stephen King's Danse Macabre; Signed by Him
First edition of “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer). Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Stephen King 11/13/82." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Sam Gantt. Author photograph by James Leonard. An exceptional example, desirable signed.
In the fall of 1978 (between The Stand and The Dead Zone), Stephen King taught a course at the University of Maine on "Themes in Supernatural Literature." As he writes in the foreword to this book, he was nervous at the prospect of "spending a lot of time in front of a lot of people talking about a subject in which I had previously only felt my way instinctively, like a blind man." The course apparently went well, and as with most teaching experiences, it was as instructive, if not more so, to the teacher as it was to the students. Thanks to a suggestion from his former editor at Doubleday, King decided to write Danse Macabre as a personal record of the thoughts about horror that he developed and refined as a result of that course.
Danse Macabre.
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