Full Throttle Joe Hill Subterranean Press SIGNED Dave McKean Association Copy

  

For your consideration is a signed limited edition of "Full Throttle" by Joe Hill illustrated by Dave McKean and published by Subterranean Press in 2020. This is copy #498 of 750 hand numbered slipcased copies signed by both Joe Hill and Dave McKean. Please see all photos to verify edition and condition. Please see my other listings for more rare and collectible books.

George Beahm is an American author best known for the Stephen King Companion which he first published in 1989 and has updated in 1995 and 2015. He has published thirty books on pop culture icons and written more literary companions than any other author. From the publisher of Full Throttle. The book you are holding is Joe Hill's first short story collection since 2005's 20thCentury Ghosts. It's been a long time between volumes, but the wait is finally over.

Full Throttle is quite simply a stunning collection, filled to overflowing with wonders, terrors, and pure narrative magic. It is the work of a profoundly gifted writer who has come fully-and memorably-into his own. Full Throttle contains thirteen stories and novellas, along with extensive story notes and an illuminating introduction that explores the various influences that have shaped its author's life and work. The stories themselves encompass an impressive assortment of settings, ideas, and emotions.

Each story, without exception, is a meticulously crafted gem. Many of these stories concern journeys-some of them brief, some more extensive-that lead to unexpected, frequently lethal destinations. In "Wolverton Station, " an American executive boards a British train and finds himself faced with impossible-but very real-horrors. "Faun" takes its privileged protagonists through a "little door" that connects our world to. "Throttle, " the first of two notable collaborations, tells of an imperiled outlaw biker gang and offers a brilliant riff on the Richard Matheson classic, Duel. " A second collaboration, "In The Tall Grass, follows a brother and sister off a lonely state highway and into the high weeds of an occult wilderness, where time and space have come apart, and only the mad can survive. In the closing story, "You Are Released, " a plane bound for Boston takes an abrupt detour through the geopolitical horrors of our age. Taken both individually and together, these stories show us a writer in full, mature command of his considerable gifts. Full Throttle is, of course, a dark, unsettling book, but it is also a good deal more. Each story is filled with grace notes.

Each is marked by compassion, empathy, and an underlying decency that lends an emotional weight to every page. These stories may have been a long time coming, but-like their author-they're here to stay.

Full Throttle is a gift to Joe Hill's many readers, and a treasure trove of story worth returning to over and over again. Limited: 750 signed numbered hardcover copies, in slipcase.