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Hardcover Edition from Hard Case Crime to Feature Never-Before-Seen Art by Glen Orbik, Robert McGinnis, Mark Summers and Pat Kinsella.Hard Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels from editor Charles Ardai and publisher Titan Books, announced that in September 2015 they will publish a new illustrated hardcover edition of their bestselling title of all time, Stephen King’s JOYLAND. The acclaimed coming-of-age story set in a possibly haunted small-town amusement park spent more than 25 weeks on the New York Times Best-Seller List in paperback and ebook format. Aside from certain extremely limited editions for collectors, however, no hardcover edition of the book has ever been published.
The new edition will feature a brand new cover painting by
popular Hard Case Crime artist Glen Orbik, whose other covers for the series
include books by Gore Vidal and Michael Crichton; a map of the Joyland
amusement park illustrated in the classic ‘mapback’ style by Susan Hunt Yule;
and more than twenty interior illustrations by acclaimed artists Robert
McGinnis, Mark Summers and Pat Kinsella.
Since its publication, JOYLAND has won raves
worldwide. The Washington Post called it “a moving, immensely
appealing coming-of-age tale” while Canada’s National Post called it
“a small marvel of a book, a novel of loss and heartbreak, of growth and
discovery…one of the writer’s finest works.” Entertainment Weekly called
it “some of King’s most graceful writing”; the New York Times wrote,
“The book delivers chills [and] a mournful sense of life’s fragility”; and the Guardian in
the U.K. called it “a far gentler, deeper, more thoughtful book…and all the
more intriguing for it.”
About Hard Case Crime
Called “the best new American publisher to appear in the
last decade” by Neal Pollack in The Stranger, Hard Case Crime has been
nominated for and/or won numerous honours since its inception including the
Edgar, the Shamus, the Anthony, the Barry, the Spinetingler, and the Ellery
Queen Award. The series’ books have been adapted for television and film,
a TV series based on Max Allan Collins’ Quarry novels in development
by Cinemax and the TV series Haven in its fifth season on SyFy.
Recent Hard Case Crime titles include James M. Cain’s lost final novel, The
Cocktail Waitress; eight lost novels written by Michael Crichton under the
pseudonym “John Lange”; and Brainquake, the final novel of
writer/filmmaker Samuel Fuller. Hard Case Crime is published through a
collaboration between Winterfall LLC and Titan Publishing Group. www.hardcasecrime.com
About Titan Publishing Group
Titan Publishing Group is an independently owned publishing
company, established in 1981, comprising three divisions: Titan Books, Titan
Magazines/Comics and Titan Merchandise. Titan Books, nominated as
Independent Publisher of the Year 2011, has a rapidly growing fiction list
encompassing original fiction and reissues, primarily in the areas of science
fiction, fantasy, horror, steampunk and crime. Recent crime and thriller acquisitions
include Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins’ all-new Mike Hammer novels, the
Matt Helm series by Donald Hamilton, and the entire backlist of the Queen of
Spy Writers, Helen MacInnes. Titan Books also has an extensive line of
media- and pop culture-related non-fiction, graphic novels, and art and music
books. The company is based at offices in London, but operates worldwide, with
sales and distribution in the U.S. and Canada being handled by Random
PRESS CONTACTS:
Ella Bowman 0207 803 1906 - London
ella.bowman@titanemail.com
Cara Fielder 0207 803 1839 - London
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