J.N. Williamson’s Illustrated Masques

$65 · Offered by Gauntlet Press

Published 2011 A Masques story offers something beyond the transitory terror, the cheap thrill, the soon forgotten fright. It s horror fiction that says something about the way people are at heart. J. N. Williamson, 1992 Cover art by Clive Barker 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

• Binding: Hardcover

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