After his heart is broken by his girlfriend, he wants to get away from New England and takes a job in North Carolina, at the Joyland amusement park, where he enters a different world.Īs King - who is also the author of such horror, mystery and crime classics as Carrie, The Shining and It - began writing the book, the amusement park atmosphere he began with turned more lurid, more "carny," more influenced by the state fairs and local carnivals of his youth in rural Maine. The main character is a college student who aspires to write for The New Yorker. Instead, the book combines elements of crime, horror and the supernatural. The park's fun house may be haunted by a ghost - which may explain the dead bodies - but the book isn't exactly a supernatural thriller, either. Joyland has a horror house and a torture chamber, but it's not exactly a horror novel. King's new thriller is set in North Carolina in 1973. But little by little, the story took shape around the image - and focused on an amusement park called "Joyland" located just a little farther down the beach. "It wanted to be a story, but it wasn't a story," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. Above is one of the two covers designed for Joyland.įor 20 years, Stephen King has had an image stuck in his head: It's a boy in a wheelchair flying a kite on a beach. The Tailor of Panama RM65.King's publisher Hard Case Crime features splashy covers that harken back to the era of old pulp fiction paperbacks.But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave. Born with an unnatural ability, Jamie can see things no one else can.
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood.īut Jamie is no ordinary child. A rookie newspaperwoman learns the true meaning of mystery when she investigates a 25-year-old unsolved and very strange case involving a dead man found on an island off the coast of Maine. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work in a fairground and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. It will also feature three exclusive art cards with alternate cover artwork for the three novels. This includes The Colorado Kid (2005), Joyland (2013) and Later (2021). The Complete Hard Case Crime Stephen King Collection, featuring the bestselling titles The Colorado Kid, Joyland, and his newest novel, Later, plus exclusive art cards.Ĭollecting Stephen King’s three homages to the classic crime pulp paperbacks, published by Hard Case Crime.
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