Carrie

CARRIE by Stephen King, Doubleday & Company, 1974, First Edition BOOK CLUB Edition. This is a Collectible Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket. This is a GOOD Reading Copy of perhaps the Scariest Horror/Thriller Ever written. Carrie was the odd one at school; the one whose reflexes were off in games, whose clothes never really fit, who never got the point of a joke. And so she became the joke, the brunt of the teen-aged cruelties that puzzled her as much as they wounded her. There was hardly any comfort in playing her private game, because like so many things in Carrie's life, it was sinful. Or so her Mother said. Carrie could make things move - by concentrating on them, by willing them to move. Small things, like marbles, would start dancing. Or a candle would fall. A door would lock. This was her game - her power - her sin, firmly repressed like everything about Carrie! One act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious jokes of her classmates, offered Carrie a new look at herself that night of the senior prom. But another - of furious cruelty - forever changed things and turned her clandestine game into a weapon of horror and destruction. She made a lighted candle fall, and she locked the doors. . . .