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Personally signed by Stephen King along with the illustrator Bernie Wrightson.
This is the Signed Lettered Edition “L” of only 52 copies, protected in a hand-made hinged box. This particular book was sold on a consignment basis.
For twenty years the officers in Pennsylvania State Police Barracks have kept a secret in SHED B. A vintage Buick which lures the troopers to come and take a look. Now young Ned Wilcox, son of Officer Curt Wilcox, has started hanging around the Barracks. One day he can’t resist peeking through the windows… and it’s finally time to share the secret. So the veteran troopers sit Ned down on the smoking bench and tell him the story — every skin-curdling detail… From a Buick 8 is classic Stephen King storytelling — a wondrous, thought-provoking, and chilling novel! Illustrated by the legendary Bernie Wrightson (artist for The Stand and Cycle of the Werewolf), this Cemetery Dance special edition featured unique binding and end-papers, over-sized design, and amazing color artwork.The dust-jacket is now protected in a new Mylar archival sleeve.
About From A Buick 8
From a Buick 8 is a novel by horror writer Stephen King (ISBN 0-7432-1137-5). Published on September 24, 2002, this is the second novel by Stephen King to feature a supernatural car (the first one being Christine, which like this novel is set in Pennsylvania); King’s short story “Trucks” also involved paranormal events involving vehicles. According to the book sleeve: “From a Buick 8 is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable.” The title comes from Bob Dylan’s song “From a Buick 6”. Award winning independent publisher Cemetery Dance Publications published a signed Limited Edition of the book in 2002.
Stephen King says that he was inspired to write this book on a car trip he took in 1999. During the trip he stopped at a gas station in western Pennsylvania. While looking around he slipped and almost fell into a stream of water. The thought that he might not have been discovered until a much later time, led him to the plot of the story. In the novel King describes a fatal automobile accident, and coincidentally King himself was the victim of a bad accident that almost killed him late in 1999. However, he said that he did not change any of the details in the novel to match his accident.