Gerald's Game HC Stephen King Viking 1992 1st print

King takes it over the top in an horrifying frightfest about a woman forced to face her deepest fears. Jessie, 39, is getting tired of being handcuffed to the bed by her husband, Gerald, so that he can play his silly sex games. So when Gerald refuses to uncuff her, she kicks him in the family jewels, accidentally smashing them --and the terror begins. Each hand cuffed, the keys out of reach, Jessie howls for help--and is answered by a feral dog that proceeds to chow down on Gerald's face in detail. As the long hours pass, cramps bite like iron jaws into Jessie's own flesh; but they're nothing compared to the thirst raging through her. Can she somehow reach the glass of water on the shelf above her head? With a ferocious gleam in his eye, King out-splatterpunks everyone in a tour de force that has awfully strong echoes of Cujo and Misery, and a peculiar anticlimax. This one is really scary.
1st print. Minor tear to dust jacket. Yellowing. Book is like new. Yellowing to page edges