Cycle of the Werewolf
Stephen King
A werewolf terrorizes the small town of Tarker's Mills, Maine, striking once each month. The story follows the residents through a full calendar year as they struggle to identify the beast among them. Illustrated throughout by comic-book legend Bernie Wrightson.
Did You Know?
- •Originally conceived as a calendar project with Wrightson's illustrations paired with King's short vignettes for each month
- •King expanded the brief calendar pieces into a full novella — at 127 pages, it remains one of his shortest works
- •Adapted into the 1985 film Silver Bullet, with a screenplay written by King himself
- •Only 7,500 trade hardcover copies were printed, making it relatively scarce among King first editions
- •Due to a manufacturing flaw, many dust jackets have white spotting and fading, making clean copies especially valuable
Collectible Variants
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US Editions
Presentation State
Only 8 copies produced. Hand-written limitation notice. Dual-signed by King and Wrightson on both the limitation page and the free front endpaper.
Collector's State
Numbered 1-100. Includes original pencil drawing of werewolf by Wrightson (7x10 inches on white paper, mounted on beige 7.75x10.5 inch stock). Signed.
Deluxe State
Numbered 101-350. Signed. May include art portfolio with 24 plates (12 color, 12 b&w), though portfolio was typically sold separately.
US First Trade Hardcover
Trade hardcover limited to 7,500 unsigned copies. Dust jacket prone to white spotting from manufacturing flaw and fading. Clean jackets command a premium.
Signet First Paperback Edition
First mass-market paperback edition. Some printings include the Silver Bullet screenplay and a King foreword.
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