Full Leather. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine in Fine
Traycase. Limited Lettered First. A handsome Limited Lettered Edition
signed by award-winning author, Nancy A. Collins, traycased, and bound
in leather with a satin ribbon page marker. This is one of only 26
lettered Limited Editions, this is letter "A."
The book is in fine
unread condition housed in a colorful fine dustjacket. The fine traycase
is purple and lined in black velvet.
The stories on display in
"Knuckles and Tales" range from suspense and psychological horror to
dark fantasy and black comedy, with the occasional weird love story
thrown in for good measure. "Along with original J.K. Potter cover
artwork, Knuckles and Tales features two never-before-published
novelettes in the Seven Devils Cycle: "Junior Teeter and the Bad Shine"
and "The Pumpkin Child.'"
Nancy Collins is the recipient of the Horror
Writers Association's Bram Stocker Award, The British Fantasy Society's
Icarus Award and the Deathrealm Award, as well as a nominee for the
World Fantasy Award. A lovely set. Nancy A. WillIams left her mark in
the 1980s and 1990s urban fantasy genre with her goth punk vampire Sonja
Blue. She spoke about her half-blood vampire Sonja Blue in a 2001
interview with Michele Lee at Monster Librarian: " I feel that most
women, on some level, view themselves as being caught between two
worlds, whether it's mother-wife, daughter-girlfriend, student-employee,
or however you want to mix and match it. It's also an excellent
allegory for coming of age, whether you're sixteen or fifty-two. In the
Sonja Blue series the underlying theme is her constant inner struggle to
remain human in the face of monstrosity. In the "VAMPS" series Cally is
being tempted to forsake her human heritage in order to fit in with her
new peer group. People are in too big a hurry to throw away their
humanity, whether in exchange for 'cool' or 'money" or 'fame', if you
ask me." Artwork by J. K. Potter, renown for his lifetime of covers for
both small press publications and major publishers, including the 1997
Ursula K LeGuin edition of "The Lathe of Heaven" and many Stephen King
books.