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1981 · 129631 — 1981. First Edition. Signed. KING Stephen. Danse Macabre. New York: Everest House 1981. Octavo original red paper boards original dust jacket. $3200.True first edition preceding the limited edition of ""perhaps the best personal account yet written of the broad appeal of the horror genre"" inscribed by Stephen King to author educator and political scientist Arnold Rogow: ""For Arnold Rogow—Best Stephen King 1/15/82.""King's survey of horror in literature films and television includes incisive discussions of such subjects as Bram Stoker's Dracula Tod Browning's Freaks the work of Ray Bradbury The Exorcist Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Amityville Horror Rod Serling's Twilight Zone flying saucer films of the 1950s and more. King also includes autobiographical sketches of his initiation into horror and comments about his own bestselling books and their place within the horror tradition. In his opening he writes: ""For me the terror—the real terror… began on an afternoon in October of 1957. I had just turned ten. And as was only fitting I was in a movie theater."" Stephen King cites Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James's The Turn of the Screw as ""the only two great novels of the supernatural in the last hundred years."" It is likely that King's assessment contributed to the resurgence of interest in Shirley Jackson's fiction in recent years. To critics Danse Macabre is ""an important and readable volume and perhaps the best personal account yet written of the broad appeal of the horror genre"" Fantasy and Horror 11-42; the work won the 1982 Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book. With numerous black-and-white photographic illustrations. First edition with code ""RRD281"" on copyright page preceding the limited edition of 265 copies. Brooks A12. Collings D1. Ketchum Levack & Levin 6. Book in fine condition in a near-fine dust jacket with minimal edge wear. A bright fresh inscribed copy. hardcover