Riding the Bullet: The Deluxe Special Edition Double • About the Book
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Riding the Bullet: The Deluxe Special Edition Double
by Stephen King and Mick Garris

featuring the complete original novella and screenplay; great artwork by Bernie Wrightson; a unique design with two color printing throughout; color wrap-around cover artwork and color interiors by Alan M. Clark

Plus: Exclusive storyboards, photos from the set, production notes, hand-corrected script pages, and more from the Top Secret "Director's Notebook" kept during the production

Status: Collector's Gift Edition Available For Preorder Now!
ISBN-13: 978-0-9840745-0-1
ISBN-10: 0-9840745-0-3

About the Book:
Riding the Bullet by Stephen King has been described as a "ghost story in the grand manner" and the story of "a young man who hitches a ride with a driver from the other side," but in this special edition only available from Lonely Road Books, we're going to show you King's classic novella in a way you've never seen it before: alongside the feature film screenplay adaptation by director Mick Garris.

The road from print to the silver screen is often a bumpy one and much has been written about how a story is sometimes transformed to make it work in moving pictures. This is your chance to experience Riding the Bullet in a way only those close to the production of the film ever have. Start with King's original novella, then flip the book over and read the original script by Mick Garris. Compare what he kept, what he had to change, and even the storytelling flourishes he added to round out the tale.

This highly collectible special edition will be published in the same manner as our acclaimed edition of The Arthur Darknell Double — in the tradition of the old Ace Doubles. This is the very first Stephen King Limited Edition to be published in this manner, and we're certain it'll be a huge hit with the collectors.

Complete with stunning cover artwork by Alan M. Clark and beautiful interior artwork by Bernie Wrightson, this exclusive Lonely Road Books special edition is going to be one of the most discussed small press books of the year.

About the Authors:
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are the Dark Tower novels, Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything's Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Lisey's Story, Duma Key, and Bag of Bones. His acclaimed nonfiction book, On Writing, was also a bestseller. He was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Award-winning filmmaker Mick Garris has written or co-authored numerous feature films and teleplays, and he is Creator and Executive Producer of Showtime’s Masters of Horror series, as well as creator of the NBC series, Fear itself.  A Life in the Cinema, his first book, was a collection of short stories and a screenplay based on one of the included stories and his first novel, Development Hell, was published by Cemetery Dance.  He has also published short fiction in numerous books and magazines.  He is currently prepping a feature film based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel Bag of Bones.  Garris lives in Studio City, California, with his wife, Cynthia, an actress, musician, composer and muse.  

About this Special Edition:
With an oversized trim size, two color printing throughout, and an extremely low print run, Riding the Bullet by Stephen King and Mick Garris is being designed with the ultimate collectors in mind. Each edition will feature a deluxe binding selected from the finest materials available. And like the previous Lonely Road Books releases, all of the signed copies were reserved within a week of bring announced, so the Collector's Gift Edition is the only remaining edition available for preorder!

Reviews & Praise:
"Uncle Stevie’s 2000 novella—originally released online, it crashed servers everywhere—gets the red-carpet treatment in this deluxe double illustrated hardcover slipcased edition. First, you get King’s spook story about a hitchhiker who thumbs a ride from a dead man while desperately trying to reach his hospitalized mother. When you reach King’s plot-twisting end, you flip the book over and can then read Garris’s screenplay adaptation. Along with the script, this includes Garris’s director’s notebook sporting story boards, production schedules, and set photos, plus a gallery of wicked concept art by no less than Bernie Wrightson..."
— Mike Rogers, Classic Returns for LibraryJournal.com

Ordering Information:
Lonely Road Books will publish three special editions of Riding the Bullet by Stephen King and Mick Garris: an oversized and slipcased Gift Edition, a deluxe signed and traycased Limited Edition, and a deluxe signed Lettered Edition that will be housed in custom-made hinged box.

Please click here to place your order for the Collector's Gift Edition of this title via the Cemetery Dance website while supplies last!

PLEASE NOTE: The Lettered Edition and Limited Editions are SOLD OUT but there is a waiting list.

As we expected, demand for the title was very strong, and collectors reserved all the available signed copies within a week of the book being announced. If you missed out on the signed special edition, you can still hurry to the front of the line for the waiting list to be notified if any copies become available. This is the best way to make sure you have a chance to get a brand new copy—with no obligation to purchase if you change your mind.

There are always customers who cancel their order or are unable to pay for a copy they reserved and customers on the waiting list will be contacted as copies become available on a first-come, first served basis. This might be your last chance to get a new copy at the retail price, so it doesn't hurt to put your name on the list right now if you're interested!

To Join The Waiting List For This Title:
If you missed out on the Limited Edition or the Lettered Edition, you can join the Waiting List to be notified if any copies become available. There are always customers who cancel their order or are unable to pay for a copy they reserved and customers on the Waiting List will be contacted if copies become available on a first-come, first served basis. This might be your last chance to get a new copy at the retail price, so it doesn't hurt to put your name on the list right now if you're interested!

Click here to visit the Waiting List page on the Cemetery Dance website for more information!

Lonely Road Books has a distribution agreement with Cemetery Dance Publications for customers who want to order direct from the publisher. Cemetery Dance will handle all of the order processing for retailers and customers, along with all of the packing and shipping of the books. Your credit card charge will be posted under the name Cemetery Dance Publications.

Limitation Information:
• Collector's Gift Edition: limited to just 3000 copies bound in a deluxe material and housed in a special slipcase ($75)

• Limited Edition: 500 deluxe copies signed by Mick Garris and the artist on a specially illustrated signature page, featuring the complete text of the Collector's Gift Edition but bound in a different deluxe material and housed in a custom-made traycase ($250)

• Lettered Edition: 52 deluxe copies signed by Mick Garris, Stephen King, and the artist on a specially illustrated signature page; with all the special features of the Limited Edition, plus a different type of high quality binding and a color frontispiece unique to this edition; all housed in a custom hand-made deluxe traycase ($750)