Joe Hill "20th Century Ghosts", "Horns" Matching Signed Lettered Edition Set "MM" of 52, Traycased [Very Fine]

Exclusive: Matching Signed Lettered Set ("MM") of Joe Hill's "20th Century Ghosts" and "Horns" by Lividian Publications.

20th Century Ghosts has been personally signed by Joe Hill, Christopher Golden, and Vincent Sammy. Includes one of only 52 original pieces of artwork by Vincent Sammy.

Horns has been personally signed by Joe Hill, Jana Heidersdorf, Stephen Chbosky, and Mathias Clasen. Includes a hand-tipped page of original artwork by Jana Heidersdorf.

Lividian Publications (December 2020, November 2024). Joe Hill “20th Century Ghosts” and "Horns" Signed Lettered Edition "MM". Matching Lettered Set. These special deluxe traycased signed lettered editions are limited to only 52 copies. Illustrated by Vincent Sammy (17 Full-Color Interiors). Horns includes a hand-tipped page of original artwork by Jana Heidersdorf. Both items are currently Out of Print from the publisher and will not be available for purchase again. Very Fine without any flaws in slipcase the same. 

Matching Signed Lettered Set "MM" of only 52 produced.

Offered at the original publisher-issued price. 

20th Century Ghosts

FROM THE PUBLISHER:

LetterPress Publications is pleased to be publishing our signed and slipcased Limited Edition hardcover of 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill, which was offered as a “Preorder Only Limited Edition,” meaning the orders received between April 6 and April 30 set the print run. This special edition includes a brand-new introduction by Christopher Golden, new story notes by Joe Hill, and seventeen full-color illustrations by Vincent Sammy.

Special Features:

• Personally signed by Joe Hill, Christoper Golden, and Vincent Sammy
• Seventeen full-color illustrations by Vincent Sammy
• Brand new introduction by Christopher Golden
• Updated acknowledgments by Joe Hill
• Printed by a boutique specialty press separately from the Limited Edition run
• Four-color interior offset printing on an upgraded acid-free paper with a textured finish
• Three-piece fine binding of imported Italian leather and cloth
• Imported Indian hand-marbled endpapers
• Silver gilding on the page edges
• Smyth-sewn for a more durable binding
• Genuine spine hubs like an old world volume
• Sewn-in satin ribbon page marker
• Colored head and tail bands
• Two colors of hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Housed in a hand-made slide-in traycase featuring padded boards, hot foil stamping on the front, spine, and inside of the case, and imported
• Indian hand-marbled endpapers for the interior lining
• Includes a hand-tipped page of original artwork by Vincent Sammy
• Print run of just 52 hand-lettered copies
• Full-color signature sheet signed by Joe Hill, Christopher Golden, and Vincent Sammy

About the Book:

“An inventive collection… brave and astute.” — New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice)

From New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill comes this award-winning collection of short fiction that launched him into the bright lights of the literary world’s big stage fifteen years ago.

Imogene is young, beautiful… and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945…

Francis was human once, but now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing…

John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead…

Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse…

Nolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of ’77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds…

The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past…

Table of Contents:

• The Importance of Wearing Glasses by Christopher Golden
• Original Introduction by Christopher Golden
• Best New Horror
• 20th Century Ghost
• Pop Art
• You Will Hear the Locust Sing
• Abraham’s Boys
• Better Than Home
• The Black Phone
• In the Rundown
• The Cape
• Last Breath
• Dead-Wood
• The Widow’s Breakfast
• Bobby Conroy Comes Back From the Dead
• My Father’s Mask
• Voluntary Committal
• New Story Notes by Joe Hill

Horns

From the publisher:

Lividian Publications is pleased to offer our Deluxe Signed & Traycased Lettered Edition of Horns by Joe Hill. This special edition includes a new foreword by Stephen Chbosky, three introductions by Joe Hill from previous editions to create a unique timeline of the book’s life so far, three deleted chapters that almost make a short story, a chapter from The Surrealist’s Glass (an early try at writing this story), along with “A Conversation with Joe Hill” and “A Devilish Joyride to the Dark Side of the Mind,” both contributed by Mathias Clasen, the acclaimed Danish scholar of horror fiction and an associate professor in literature and media at Aarhus University.

In addition, this gorgeous Lettered Edition volume features a dozen full-color illustrations by Jana Heidersdorf, which have been set into the book design and will be printed as part of the book blocks as part of the four-color printing process. The unique and unusual endpapers were created by casting an epoxy resin burl and photographing the result.

Format: Deluxe Signed Lettered Edition Housed in a Slide-In Traycase
Original Retail Price: $1750
Publication Date: November 2024
Page Count: 616

Special Features:

• Twelve full-color illustrations by Jana Heidersdorf
• Includes a hand-tipped page of original artwork by Jana Heidersdorf
• “Joe Hill’s Rorschach Test” by Stephen Chbosky
• “A Devilish Joyride to the Dark Side of the Mind: On Joe Hill’s Horns” by Mathias Clasen
• “In Praise of Wreckage” by Joe Hill
• Introduction to Horns from the William Morrow Advance Reader’s Copy
• “What Possessed Me: How I Wrote Horns” by Joe Hill
• A Chapter from The Surrealist’s Glass
• Three Deleted Chapters from Horns Which Almost Make a Short Story
• A Conversation with Joe Hill on Horns by Mathias Clasen

Deluxe Production Features:

• Printed separately from the Limited Edition run
• Four-color interior offset printing on an upgraded acid-free paper
• Interior artwork has been set within the page design and printed as part of the book block
• Three-piece fine binding
• Custom printed endpapers
• Gilding on the page edges
• Smyth-sewn for a more durable binding
• Genuine spine hubs like an old world volume
• Sewn-in satin ribbon page marker
• Colored head and tail bands
• Two colors of hot foil stamping on the front boards and spine
• Features a full-color frontispiece
• Housed in a hand-made slide-in traycase featuring padded boards, hot foil stamping on the front, spine, and inside of the case
• Print run of just 52 hand-lettered copies
• Full-color signature sheet signed by Joe Hill, Jana Heidersdorf, Stephen Chbosky, and Mathias Clasen

About the Book:

Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.

At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real.

Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. Ig had it all, and more—he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.

But Merrin’s death damned all that. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. And he was never cleared. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. Nothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. Everyone, it seems, including God, has abandoned him. Everyone, that is, but the devil inside. . . .

Now Ig is possessed of a terrible new power to go with his terrible new look—a macabre talent he intends to use to find the monster who killed Merrin and destroyed his life. Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It’s time for a little revenge. . . . It’s time the devil had his due. . . .

Joe Hill

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Fireman, NOS4A2, Heart-Shaped Box, and Horns. His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. He earned the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, featuring the art of Gabriel Rodriguez.

Career

Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his middle name for his professional surname in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits rather than as the son of one of the world's best-selling and most-recognized living novelists. After achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007, the year his first novel came out, after an article the previous year in Variety reported his identity.

Hill is a recipient of the Ray Bradbury Fellowship. He has also received the William L. Crawford award for best new fantasy writer in 2006, the A. E. Coppard Long Fiction Prize in 1999 for "Better Than Home", and the 2006 World Fantasy Award—Novella for "Voluntary Committal". His stories have appeared in a variety of magazines, such as Subterranean Magazine, Postscripts and The High Plains Literary Review, and in many anthologies, including The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (ed. Stephen Jones) and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror" (ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant).

Hill's first book, the limited edition collection 20th Century Ghosts (published in 2005 by PS Publishing), showcases fourteen of his short stories and won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection, together with the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and Best Short Story for "Best New Horror". In October 2007, Hill's mainstream US and UK publishers reprinted 20th Century Ghosts, without the extras published in the 2005 slipcased versions, but including one new story.

Hill's first novel, Heart-Shaped Box, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in February, 2007 and by Victor Gollancz Ltd in UK the following month. The novel reached number eight on the New York Times bestseller list on April 1, 2007. In September, 2007, at the thirty-first Fantasycon, the British Fantasy Society awarded Hill the first ever Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, Hill's comic book series Locke & Key was released. The first issue, released on February 20, 2008, sold out its initial publication run in one day. A collection of the series in limited form from Subterranean Press sold out within 24 hours of being announced.

Hill's second novel, Horns, was published in February 2010. A film based on the novel was released in 2014, directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Daniel Radcliffe and Juno Temple. NOS4A2, his third novel, was published in April 2013. The novel peaked at number five on the New York Times Best Seller list. Hill's fourth novel, The Fireman, was released in May 2016. It entered the New York Times Best Seller list at number one, making it his highest-ranked novel.

In 2019, In the Tall Grass, co-written with his father Stephen King, was released as a Netflix Original film. Filming for the Locke & Key TV series, also by Netflix, began in the middle of January 2019 and the first season aired in February 2020. AMC began broadcasting a TV series of NOS4A2 in July 2019. The first season of Creepshow, released in September 2019, featured an adaptation of Hill's short story "By the Silver Waters of Lake Champlain".

Following DC Comics's announcement in June 2019 that it would suspend publication of its Vertigo Comics imprint, they announced that Hill would oversee and share the writing for a new horror line, Hill House Comics. which Hill has begun discussing with editor Mark Doyle in 2017. The line was originally to be titled Vertigo Fall, then Joe Hill's Vertigo Fall, before being given its eventual name.

Among Hill's unpublished works is one partly completed story with his father ("But Only Darkness Loves Me"), which is held with the Stephen King papers at the Special Collections Unit of the Raymond H Fogler Library at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine.

About the artists

Vincent Sammy - "MY BIO"

I am a South African freelance illustrator working in the field of Horror, Fantasy, The Macabre, Sci-fi, and most things weird.

I have been featured in INTERZONE, BLACK STATIC, BEWARE THE DARK, SOMETHING WICKED,PANDEMONIUM books as well as artwork featured in the 2012 movie CHRONICLE as well as in the 2015 movie TIGER HOUSE.

I am the 2016 cover artist for INTERZONE.

I have also done work for NEW CON PRESS, SST PUBLICATIONS, ROSARIUM PUBLISHERS, PERMUTED PRESS, THUNDERSTORM BOOKS and DOGHORN PUBLISHERS

I was a 2016 BSFA AWARD nominee in the category if best artwork. I was also the runner-up in the 2012 THIS IS HORROR - Artist of the year awards and was nominated again in 2013.

Reference: https://www.deviantart.com/karbonk/about

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