A Hard Case for King

It wasn't enough that I was absolutely in lust with Hard Case Crime paperbacks--what, with Westlake and Sunshine and Stansberry and the gang on the roster.

Now look what Charles Ardai has gone and done to me...



Yeah. As Charles put it, that Stephen King.

The guy who first turned me on to the power of the narrative voice back when I was 15 through a 1,000-page monster epic called It. The guy who first turned me on to two different strains of fiction--horror and crime--that are actually two sides of the same fucked-up coin.

Yeah. That guy.

From the press release:

New York (February 28, 2005) – Winterfall LLC, creator of the celebrated Hard Case Crime line of pulp-style paperback crime novels, today announced that a new book by Stephen King will be the lead title of the line’s second year. The Colorado Kid tells the story of two veteran newspapermen and their investigation into the mysterious death of a man on an island off the coast of Maine. The book was written specifically for Hard Case Crime and has never previously been published.

It'll be out in October, the same month that The Wheelman appears. Guess which book I'm looking forward to seeing the most?