Novel1974
Carrie
Stephen King
King's debut novel about Carrietta White, a shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is pushed to her breaking point by bullying classmates and her fanatically religious mother, culminating in a devastating prom night massacre.
Did You Know?
- •King threw his first draft in the trash; his wife Tabitha retrieved it and encouraged him to finish
- •Doubleday paid King a $2,500 advance, but the paperback rights sold to Signet for $400,000
- •The 1976 Brian De Palma film adaptation starring Sissy Spacek became a horror classic
- •Only 30,000 hardcover copies were printed, making true first editions quite scarce
Collectible Variants
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US Editions
USOccasional
US First Edition
Doubleday · 1974
Scarce
USSignedScarce
Cemetery Dance 40th Anniversary Deluxe Limited
Cemetery Dance 40th Anniversary Artist Edition, traycased
Cemetery Dance Publications · 2014
Moderate
USSignedVery Rare
Cemetery Dance 40th Anniversary Lettered Edition
Cemetery Dance 40th Anniversary Lettered Edition, 52 copies only
Cemetery Dance Publications · 2014
Very Scarce
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