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The Big Book of Necon

Bob Booth

First published 2009
Publisher Cemetery Dance Publications
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art pottsdesign
Pages 312
Price $40.00
ISBN 9781587672026

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  • Many of the works included in this book are incorrectly titled or attributed in the Table of Contents. The title page credits are correctly given here.
  • According to the publisher's website there are three other states of this publication: 1) Slipcased Hardcover Limited Edition of 350 signed and numbered copies, bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn, and signed by more than 50 contributors (excluding King) on four pages of signature sheets ($175); 2) Slipcased Deluxe Artist Edition of 150 signed and numbered copies, bound in a different full-cloth and Smyth sewn, signed by more than 50 contributors including Stephen King, featuring a different slipcase, different full-color signature sheets, an additional piece of color artwork, embossed endpapers, and original artwork by Glenn Chadbourne ($350); 3) Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 lettered copies signed by more than 50 contributors including Stephen King, hand-bound in leather, featuring different endpapers, different signature sheets, a color frontispiece, with a satin ribbon page marker and a deluxe hand-made traycase ($1000)

Year Reviewer Publication
2009 Stefan Dziemianowicz Locus, #581 June 2009

Page Title Author(s) Type
13 Preface (The Big Book of Necon) Bob Booth Essay
17 FBI Report QY-202 Douglas E. Winter Essay
27 Necon: What It Is Charles L. Grant Essay
28 The Dark Campers Linda Addison Poem
29 A View from the Bottom, or Necon 18 from the Virgin Standpoint Matt Bechtel Essay
36 Four Views of Necon Ginjer Buchanan Poem
37 Conning at Roger Williams on a Summer's Evening Elizabeth Massie Poem
39 My Favorite Necon Moment Thomas F. Monteleone Essay
40 Necon X: a fond memory from the other side of sanity Yvonne Navarro Essay
45 Whores Just Want to Have Fun! Holly Newstein Essay
48 Necon Hank Wagner Essay
50 A Report on Necon '82 Stanley Wiater Essay
56 Red Paint Jill Bauman Poem
57 The Hustler, smoking Jonathan Carroll Essay
59 Unexpected Attraction Matthew Costello Short Story
69 The End of the Line John Coyne Short Story
80 Loser Les Daniels Short Story
86 Kisses from Auntie Craig Shaw Gardner Short Story
93 Runaway Christopher Golden Short Story
103 Undercover Nancy Holder Short Story
111 Sundays Jack Ketchum Short Story
118 The Old Dude's Ticker Stephen King Short Story
123 Freddy and Rita G. Wayne Miller Short Story
129 The Lake Kathryn Ptacek Short Story
138 The Last Performance of Kobo Daishi Alan Ryan Novelette
151 On the Last Night of the Festival of the Dead Darrell Schweitzer Short Story
165 The Exercise of Faith Lucius Shepard Short Story
178 Erotorium Steven Spruill Short Story
187 Response from a Surprised but Pleased Recipient Peter Straub Short Story
190 Nocturne Thomas Tessier Short Story
193 Night Deposits Chet Williamson Short Story
198 Demonsong F. Paul Wilson Short Story
214 A Death in the Day of Gary A. Braunbeck Short Story
219 And We'll Be Jolly Friends for Evermore P. D. Cacek Short Story
226 Becoming Men Douglas Clegg Short Story
239 Triptych David Cram Short Story
240 Somebody Put Me Together Sèphera Girón Short Story
246 The Girl With No Name Elizabeth Hand Short Story
249 Little Brother Rick Hautala Short Story
253 I Am an Exit Brian Keene Short Story
256 Virtually Perfect James A. Moore Short Story
264 The Burning Ramsey Campbell Short Story
268 Clearly Dead Simon Clark Short Story
270 Days of the Wheel Peter Crowther Short Story
276 Fifteen Painted Cards from a Vampire Tarot Neil Gaiman Short Story
281 Partial Eclipse Graham Joyce Short Story
291 Recipe for Disaster Tim Lebbon Short Story
297 Memories of Lydia, Leaving Philip Nutman Short Story