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ISO: Stephen King's first stories

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 12:40 pm
by papat444
So i've slowly built my collection over the last 5 years and now have every Stephen King book (including all non-fiction); basically anything that was published. In addition, i've been collecting all short stories not included in current collections. I've made myself a file and hope to print myself a copy for personal use. That said, the following are the only ones i'm missing. i realize they are extremely rare and i'm not looking copies but i would love to have the text to add to my collection. I'm pretty sure i won't find them but figured i'd give it a shot.

Send me a PM if you can help.

Land of 1,000,000 Years Ago
Thirty-One of the Classics
The Undead
Trigger Finger
The Star Invaders

Re: ISO: Stephen King's first stories

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 9:58 pm
by Sherlock Joe's
Though it's not on your list, I have information / copy of Io magazine where SK's baseball poem "Brooklyn August" was first published.

The poem was later published in "Nightmares and Dreamscapes".

Re: ISO: Stephen King's first stories

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:21 pm
by Mr. Rabbit Trick
Sherlock Joe's wrote: Fri Jul 25, 2025 9:58 pm Though it's not on your list, I have information / copy of Io magazine where SK's baseball poem "Brooklyn August" was first published.

The poem was later published in "Nightmares and Dreamscapes".
I think he is looking for the Unpublished stories. As you stated, "Brooklyn August" has been published many times...

Appearances:
1. Io #10 (“Baseball Issue”) Io Publications] (1971)
2. Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life, 1977, trade paperback.
913028-50-9. Note: This is officially Io #24.
2a. Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life, 1978, trade paperback.
2b. Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life , 1980, trade paperback,.
3. The Unseen King, by Tyson Blue. 1989, hardcover, p. 107-108.
3a. The Unseen King, by Tyson Blue. 1989, trade paperback.
4. Into the Temple of Baseball , trade paperback.
5. The Twentieth-Century Treasury of Sports , New York: Viking, [October] 1992, hardcover.
6. Nightmares & Dreamscapes, by Stephen King. New York: Viking, 1993, hardcover.

Re: ISO: Stephen King's first stories

Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2025 12:47 am
by papat444
Yes, I have the book Nightmares and Dreamscapes.