Cover Art and Release Date Unveiled for Stephen King’s Joyland

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While we were bummed to learn that Stephen King’s The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep, has been pushed back to September of 2013, we do have his pulpy whodunit Joyland to look forward to a few months earlier in June. Check out the newly released cover art!

Excerpts from the Prior Press Release:
Hard Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels published by Titan Books, will release Joyland, a new novel by Stephen King, on June 4, 2013. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

Called “the best new American publisher to appear in the last decade” by Neal Pollack in The Stranger, Hard Case Crime revives the storytelling and visual style of the pulp paperbacks of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. The line features an exciting mix of lost pulp masterpieces from some of the most acclaimed crime writers of all time and gripping new novels from the next generation of great hardboiled authors, all with new painted covers in the grand pulp style.

Stephen King commented, “I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime the perfect venue for this book, which is one of my favorites. I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid, and for that reason, we’re going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being. Joyland will be coming out in paperback, and folks who want to read it will have to buy the actual book.”

“Joyland is a breathtaking, beautiful, heartbreaking book,” said Charles Ardai, Edgar- and Shamus Award-winning editor of Hard Case Crime. “It’s a whodunit, it’s a carny novel, it’s a story about growing up and growing old, and about those who don’t get to do either because death comes for them before their time. Even the most hardboiled readers will find themselves moved. When I finished it, I sent a note saying, ‘Goddamn it, Steve, you made me cry.’ “

Nick Landau, Titan Publisher, added: “Stephen King is one of the fiction greats, and I am tremendously proud and excited to be publishing a brand-new book of his under the Hard Case Crime imprint.”

Joyland features new painted cover art by the legendary Robert McGinnis, the artist behind the posters for the original Sean Connery James Bond movies and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and by Glen Orbik, the painter of more than a dozen of Hard Case Crime’s most popular covers, including the cover for King’s The Colorado Kid.

Cover Art and Release Date Unveiled for Stephen King's Joyland

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