Collecting Stephen King's three homages to the classic crime pulp paperbacks,published by Hard Case Crime. This includes The Colorado Kid (2005),Joyland (2013) and Later (2021). It will also feature three exclusive art cards with alternate cover artwork for the three novels.Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973,Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work in a fairground and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder,the fate of a dying child,and the ways both will change his life forever.A rookie newspaperwoman learns the true meaning of mystery when she investigates a 25-year-old unsolved and very strange case involving a dead man found on an island off the coast of Maine.The son of a struggling single mother,Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability,Jamie can see things no one else can. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
Publisher: Titan Books LtdISBN: 9781789097566Weight: 367 g
Stephen King
We celebrate the author known to many as the father of modern horror. For a generation of readers,Stephen King is the voice of the underbelly of small-town America,having made his name as the author of cult classics (with an equally strong legacy of film adaptations) including Carrie,The Shining,The Green Mile,The Stand,Pet Sematary,IT,Under the DomeandThe Tommyknockers. If there's an author who knows how to mine the dark recesses of the human imagination,it's King.
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