The premium cut sits on top: "The Langoliers," whose wildly original premise-that a group of airline passengers travel a few minutes into the past to encounter the entities that eat Being, leaving Nothingness-unfolds in classic King fashion, with a psychic blind girl, a demented financier, a mystery writer, and a British spy awash in mounting suspense (why is the beer "Flat! Flat as a pancake!"? and what is that sound like "Animals at feeding time" at the place near the airport?). A double-double Whopper hot from the grill of "America's literary boogeyman," as he puts it in his introduction: four sizzling horror novellas sandwiched within the theme of "Time.and the corrosive effects it can have on the human heart." Sure, they're dripping with excess wordage and high-calorie sentiment, but cut away the fat and there's still more steak here than in any other horror book of the year. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. Black cloth boards with embossed SK, title in gold on spine. There is a neatly inked gift inscription (1990) on FEP. All my copies from different sources show endpapers overglued to front flyleaf, so I assume this was a publishing run error and not a repair.
Fine first edition in a fine dust jacket.
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