[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED by the King of Horror to the Father of Horror Films Inspired by Mr. Rogers

[Charles Agvent]

 From our catalog posted this week:
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[KING, Stephen] [ROMERO, George] MALORY, [Sir Thomas]. THE ROMANCE OF 
KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. Inscribed by the King of 
Horror to the Father of Horror Films. (New York): Macmillan and Co., 
Limited, (1979). First Thus. Abridged by Alfred W. Pollard and 
illustrated in color and black-and-white by Arthur Rackham. INSCRIBED on 
the title page by Stephen King to filmmaker George Romero: George--/I 
want to congratulate you again on a/stunning and beautiful piece of 
filmmaking./Here's something that I thought might, in view/of the 
Knightriders subject-matter, ring a bell--/Steve King/2-6-81." The 
allusion by King is to the 1981 Romero film KNIGHTRIDERS, based on 
Arthurian legend about a group of modern-day jousters who reenact 
tournaments on motorcycles. King and his wife Tabitha had a 20-second 
cameo in the film. The following year the Romero film CREEPSHOW, written 
by King, came out. Romero would later make one of the better film 
adaptions of a King book, THE DARK HALF. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper.

George Romero was inspired to make horror films after making a segment 
for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in which Mr. Rogers underwent a 
tonsillectomy. His first film, Night of the Living Dead (1968), sparked 
interest in zombies, currently in full blossom. (#017299)        $1,500.00

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