Illustrations from Stephen King’s Under the Dome Collector’s Edition

Steve Barton |

Nov 4, 2009

If you’ve been on the fence as to which version of Stephen King’s upcoming novel Under the Dome to buy — the hardcover, the audio CD, or the super special collector’s edition — the illustrations that hit online recently from the latter just might help you make up your mind.

The official Simon & Schuster site for Under the Dome provided the following summary of what’s included with the special collector’s edition along with five drawings of some of the major characters:

This collector’s edition of Under the Dome, Stephen King’s tour-de-force new novel about a Maine town suddenly cut off by an invisible, impenetrable Dome, has a belly band around the jacket, a stamped case, four-color printed end papers, 27-part title illustrations of characters in the book drawn by renowned New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee, and a ribbon marker. The edition also contains a deck of 27 special collector’s cards of the Diffee caricatures. Printed on specialty paper, this publication is limited to 25,000 copies.

Check out the illustrations below, and pre-order your preferred version from EvilShop prior to the book’s November 10th release.