J. N. Williamson's Illustrated Masques
(112 pages - © August 2011)

Publisher: Gauntlet Press Author: Multiple (including SK) Artist: Multiple Lettered Edition: 52 Signed Numbered Edition: 500 Trade Edition: ??? ISBN 10: 1-934267-23-6 ISBN 13: 978-1-934267-23-3

Traycase Cover (Click / double tap for limitation page)

• Lettered Edition of 52 copies Issued in a custom traycase. Signed by all contributors, including Stephen King and Clive Barker. Issue Price = $1,500
  
  
• Signed Numbered Edition of 500 copies, there was an optional slipcase avaialble with this edition but I'm not sure how many were sold. Signed by most conributors but NOT Stephen King. Issue price = $125 (still available at a discount price from Gauntlet Press)
  
  
• Unsigned Trade Edition of unknown copies. Issue price $75 (still available at a issue price from Gauntlet Press)
  
  

King's contribution to this book is the short story "Popsy"

Fun fact: Jerome of tdt.org wrote a short review about the book that is on the Gauntlet Press product page for this book.

So what actually is this book about? The Gauntlet Press product page says the following:

The Masques series of anthologies, published from 1984 to 2006 and edited by J. N. Williamson, presented superlative work by established and emerging horror writers, including Richard Matheson, Stephen King, Charles Grant, Ray Russell, Charles Beaumont, Tom Monteleone, Robert Bloch, F. Paul Wilson, Ramsey Campbell, Richard Christian Matheson, Paul Dale Anderson, and Robert R. McCammon. “Scare me!” was editor Williamson’s principal guideline. The books won critical, popular, and international success, with editions published in Spain, Germany, Italy, and France.

In 1992, Mort Castle and David Campiti, working with J.N. Williamson, produced two 48 page issues of J.N. Williamson’s Masques, presenting Masques stories in “graphic album” format. The “deluxe comics” (perfect bound) were published by Innovation Books, a comic book publisher. Illustrators included Mark Evans, Ted Naifeh, Mike Okamoto, Tim Vigil, Jose Pimentel, and Matt Thompson.

But the “comic book boom” was going bust — and the “graphic novel” still had to await Art Spiegelman’s winning the Pulitzer for Maus and Alan Moore’s Watchmen being named one of the top “100 Novels of the 20th Century” by Time Magazine to become legitimate. Few copies of J.N. Williamson’s Masques were printed, far fewer comics stores were around to sell them, and within a year, the publisher Innovation itself was gone from the scene.

Now, J. N. Williamson’s Illustrated Masques triumphantly returns in a 112 page beautifully produced collectible from Gauntlet Press.

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