Friday Five: Favorite Books Acquired!

It by Stephen King

Release Date: 1986-09-15

It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry, the haunting is real….

They were just kids when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.

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Most of you probably know, I have a Stephen King collection. I love it!  The one book that kept eluding me was a good quality copy of IT.  Every time I ordered it, it would show up with the jacket mangled or the spine broken.  I was really starting to give up on EVER finding a good copy.  Then, last year, my friend KC Hilton sent me a birthday present!

H. P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror (Fall River Classics) by H. P. Lovecraft

Release Date: 2012-08-23

“H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror” features twenty of horror master H.P. Lovecraft’s classic stories, among them some of the greatest works of horror fiction ever written, including: “The Rats in the Walls,” “Pickman’s Model,” “The Colour out of Space,” “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Dunwich Horror,” “The Shadow over Innsmouth,” “At the Mountains of Madness,” “The Shadow out of Time,” and “The Haunter of the Dark.”

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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Release Date: 2008-09-30

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod’s family. . . .Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic Coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.

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The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Release Date: 2012-02-15

The first volume in J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS   One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.“A unique, wholly realized other world, evoked from deep in the well of Time, massively detailed, absorbingly entertaining, profound in meaning.” – New York Times

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The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Release Date: 2004-10-26

An impressive hardcover volume containing all seven books of in the classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia, graced by black-and-white chapter opening illustrations and featuring an essay by C. S. Lewis on writing.Fantastic creatures, heroic deeds, epic battles in the war between good and evil, and unforgettable adventures come together in this world where magic meets reality, which has been enchanting readers of all ages for over sixty years. The Chronicles of Narnia has transcended the fantasy genre to become a part of the canon of classic literature.This edition presents all seven books—The Magician’s Nephew; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; and The Last Battle—unabridged. The books appear according to C. S. Lewis’s preferred order and each chapter features a chapter opening illustration by the original artist, Pauline Baynes.This volume also contains C. S. Lewis’s essay “On Three Ways of Writing for Children.”

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