A sobering notion, but one I have to come to grips with. No mean financial setback for little old me in the year of 1984. I bought the trade PB of Fear Itself for the whopping price of $7.95. I couldn’t afford hardcovers in those days. There had been a Fear Itself hardcover published by Underwood-Miller a couple of years before it was done in mass market trade paperback. Winter, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Alan Ryan, and others. Grant, Fritz Leiber, George Romero, Bill Warren, Douglas E. Stephen King provided a lengthy essay in it, and his friend and sometime collaborator Peter Straub wrote a personal appreciation. The days when I was first becoming a serious fan of the horror fiction genre.įear Itself is an anthology of essays on King’s work by various authors, critics, and filmmakers. But one title captured my eye.`It was a nice trade paperback of Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King. I had most of the stuff, and for the most part what I didn’t have, I didn’t really want. The earthly remains of a lover of suspense and the supernatural. A few other things, like a couple of Ramsey Campbell novels and the odd V.C Andrews or Mary Higgins Clark. I was at a Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughter’s thrift shop last weekend, and I saw a bunch of books by King and Koontz. Occasionally they will be inscribed, or have those accursed owner’s bookplates in them. His or her books found no new home from family or friends, and they get dumped at a thrift shop. I imagine, and it’s usually true, that a reader and collector has passed away. Sometimes I will be at a thrift shop, and I’ll see a jag of books all in the same genre, or bunches of them by an author or two. Books and records are mostly my things nowadays. Movies, too but not as much as I used to. I pass the knick-knacks and the cooking supplies right by. I’m not looking for a deal on golf clubs, or vintage clothing.
One of my favorite activities is treasure hunting at thrift shops, flea markets, estate and yard sales. Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King (Not Exactly A Review) (Photo Copyright Mark Sieber 2016)
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