Straight On 'Til Morning

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2001. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very good +/fine. Michael Kaluta. A ver good plus signed limited edition in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Golden on the limitation page, one of 1000 signed copies. Burgundy clamshell slipcase. Burgundy cloth binding. Fine dust jacket. Book is very slightly cocked. 419 pp. Octavo. Straight On 'Til Morning is a nostalgic, coming-of-age tale set in 1981. Kevin Murphy is at a turning point in his life. It's the summer before high school. In just a handful of weeks he'll turn fourteen and he has promised himself that on that fateful day he will finally reveal his true feelings to the girl of his dreams, fifteen-year-old Nikki French. Before he can do that, however, Nikki falls for Pete Starling, an older guy with a serious cruel streak and a pack of buddies who are even meaner.At first, Kevin is just heartbroken. But then he begins to be afraid. It seems that Starling and his crew are not at all what they appear to be. In order to protect Nikki, Kevin is going to have to gather his own friends around him and journey into another place, a land of war and eternal darkness where there are no heroes... only monsters.In this brand new novel, Christopher Golden continues to explore the vein of horrific fantasy he began to delve into in the critically-acclaimed Strangewood.This special Cemetery Dance Publications Limited Edition features a cover painting by legendary fantasy artist Michael Kaluta, as well as interior illustrations (full page artwork for each chapter!) by some of the biggest stars in the world of comic books, including Mike Mignola, Joe Quesada, Arthur Adams, John Cassaday, Michael Zulli, Stephen R. Bissette, Daniel Brereton, J.G. Jones, Joyce Chin, Ryan Sock, Eric Powell, Philip Hester, Glenn Chadbourne, Kyle Hotz, Timothy Bradstreet, Colleen Doran, Randy Green, Terry Moore, Timothy Truman, Kirk Van Wormer, Michael Zulli, and Mark Texeira!" ---publisher's website