Search Results: Horror/Thriller from Pulp & Leather Books

King, Stephen. The Dark Half. 1989. Viking. First Edition with full 10-digit number line beginning with 1. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket. Black board with iconic SK in gold on front board. Cloth detail on spine, featuring author, title and publisher s details. Purple endpapers. 6.5 X 9.5. [5] title page; publisher s page; dedication; author s note; pp.3-431; afterward; [3]. The Dark Half follows Thad Beaumont, an author and recovering alcoholic. A writer of complex, cerebral fiction, Beaumont s work is often overlooked, but there is another side to the novelist. George Stark is a celebrated author of crime novels and not a very nice guy . What is notable about the two men is that they are one and the same. When Beaumont s pen name is outed, the author seeks to bury the pseudonym of George Stark in a mock funeral but what emerges from the faux grave is someone very real and very dangerous. Stephen King (1947 - ) is an American author, best known as the King of Horror. Having written nearly 70… Read More

King, Stephen. Dolores Claiborne. 1993. Viking. First Edition. Full 10-digit number line and "0193" on inner jacket flap. Black boards with cloth detail on spine. "SK" detail in red to front board, as well as title, author, publisher and eclipse detail on spine. 6 X 9.5. Burnt orange endpapers. Illustrated title page, publisher, dedication, map of Maine; half-title; PP. 1-305. Minor shelf wear to top and tail of spine, as well as light rubbing to edges of jacket. Interior pages are clean, bright and free of markings.
"By her own account she's an old Yankee bitch, Dolores Claiborne: foul temper, foul mouth, foul life. […] Given a voice as compelling as any in contemporary fiction, her story centers on a disintegrating marriage's molten core, where the mind's unblinking eye becomes huge with hate and a woman's heart turns murderous."
Stephen King (1947 - ) is an American author, best known as the King of Horror. Having written nearly 70 books under several different names, King's work is known the… Read More

King, Stephen. Gerald's Game. 1992. Viking. First Edition with full 10-digit number line beginning with 1. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, with "0992" on inner front flap. 6.5 X 9.5. [5] illustrated title page; publisher page; [3] half-title; map of Maine; pp.1-332; [4]. Black boards with cloth spine and iconic "SK" in red on front board. Title. author and publisher on spine in red, as well as eclipse design. Minimal signs of shelf wear to top and tail or spine. Some loosening to spine, caused by improper storage.
Gerald's Game follows Jessie Burlingame, a woman who's husband dies of a heart attack while she is handcuffed to a bed. "Stephen King gives us his most ambitious work yet - a novel of brilliant intensity, excruciating suspense, and uncanny insight into the dark corners of the indomitable female psyche. […] Nothing he [King] has written before will prepare readers for the challenges of Gerald's Game. […] It is nerve-racking excavation of the deepest layers of a woman's fear and… Read More

King, Stephen. Rose Madder. 1995. First Edition American with full 10-digit number line beginning with 1. Hardcover with original dust jacket. 9.5 X 6.5. Half title; illustrated frontice; title; pp. 3-420. Burnt orange endpapers. Black boards with cloth spine detail. Rose detail on front cover board, as well as title, author and publisher details. Minor loosening to spine from improper storage, and minor shelf wear to top and tail of spine. Small tear to upper front corner of jacket, as shown.
"Stephen King's peerless imagination and storytelling genius have captivated a huge audience over twenty years of bestsellerdom. A brilliant dark-hued fable of the gender wars, a haunting love story, and a hold-your-breath-until-you-gasp triumph of suspense, Rose Madder is Stephen King at his electrifying best". Rose Madder centres around the complex and tragic concept of domestic violence, a theme King revisits on several occasions. Unlike the infamous Dolores Claiborne, Rose Madder relies on the fantastical… Read More

Rice, Anne. Violin. Alfred A. Knopf. 1997. First Trade Edition. Book of the Month Club Main Selection. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards with gilt title, author and publisher design along spine. 6.5 X 9.5. [3] half-title; title; PP.3-289 [6].
Written by novelist Anne Rice, Violin moves away from her well-known world of vampires in order to explore the depths of grief, loneliness and ghosts. This time-bending tale follows a newly widowed Triana, the spirit of a talented violinist and one of history's greatest composers. "Violin is crowded with the history, the drama, the invention, and the romantic intensity that have become synonymous with Anne Rice at her incomparable best".
Anne Rice (1941-2021) was born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien and found fame as an American novelist, best known for The Vampire Chronicles and her work in gothic fiction. Rice' books have sold more than 100 million copies and have been adapted for film, television, stage plays and even comic books.