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Bag of Bones by Stephen King 1998 1st Edition/1st Printing

Author: Stephen King

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Format

Hardcover

Publisher

Scribner

Year of Publishing

1998

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Description

Bag of Bones is a 1998 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. It focuses on an author who suffers severe writer’s block and delusions at an isolated lake house four years after the death of his wife. It won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel, the 1999 British Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and the 1999 Locus Award for Best Dark Fantasy/Horror Novel.The book re-uses many basic plot elements of Daphne du Maurier‘s Rebecca, which is directly referenced several times in the book’s opening pages; however, the relation of these elements (including a wife who is dead as the book opens, her posthumous effect on future romance, a drowning, and house haunted by the memories of previous inhabitants) to the plot and characters is markedly different. When the paperback edition of Bag of Bones was published by Pocket Books on June 1, 1999 (ISBN 978-0671024239), it included a new author’s note at the end of the book, in which Stephen King describes his initial three-book deal with Scribner (Bag of BonesOn Writing, and a collection of short stories titled One Headlight, which later became Everything’s Eventual), and devotes most of the piece describing the origins of the then-forthcoming Hearts in Atlantis.