Thrillers

Baltimore: Cemetery Dance, 1993. First Edition; Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Keith Minnion. A fine, first and limited edition, number 400 of 500 printed and signed by all authors, editor Richard Chizmar, and introduction writer Joe Lansdale. In an equally fine dustjacket and midnight blue slipcase. 264 pp. Octavo. This volume marks the exciting debut of a brand new series of dark fiction. Within these pages, you'll find terror, suspense, and mystery waiting around each corner — tales that range from quietly menacing to shockingly graphic, wildly fantastic to grimly realistic. Supernatural to psychological. It's all here, with one universal ingredient: a well-told story. As Joe R. Lansdale comments in his Introduction: "The word thriller normally means a thrill a minute, a page turner, but in the case of the following stories, and I'm sure other stories that will appear in the series, I believe the term will have to be broadened..."The formula for the Thrillers series is deceptively simple: we invite four of the genre's most popular authors to each contribute 20,000 words of original, never-before-published fiction. We add insightful Afterwords by each author, a dozen full-page interior illustrations by Keith Minnion, and a guest Introduction. The end result is a wonderful showcase for the finest of today's short fiction." - Publisher's website