In September 2022, we released Hodder & Stoughton's first (direct) Stephen King special edition, and what an edition it was!
Limited to 200 copies, Our collector's edition of FAIRY TALE was exclusively available through Special Edition Books, direct from the publisher in the UK. It was bound in cloth and housed in a matching slipcase. Each numbered copy was signed by Stephen King and fantastically produced to a high quality finish with foil blocked motifs.
About FAIRY TALE
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for their world or ours.
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her ageing master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.
Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.
King's storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale about another world than ours, in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy - and his dog - must lead the battle.
Production details
- Print run of 200 numbered copies
- Signed by Stephen King
- Clothbound hardback in slip case
- Head and tail bands and blue marker ribbon
- Gold and silver foil blocking on all sides
- Gold endpapers with bespoke design