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The Funhouse

as by Owen West
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See Also: The Funhouse (Film) The Funhouse - Revised Afterword to The Funhouse – Revised New Afterword to The Funhouse – Revised Dean Koontz - Collection: The Vision & The Funhouse

Advance Reading Copy

Release Date: 1980
Format: Advance copy of mass market paperback
Page Count: 275
ISBN-10: None
Cover Price: None
States: “First Jove edition published November 1980" and “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"
Cover: "SPECIAL ADVANCE EDITION FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY”
In this case, the “true first” is the advance copy since it states that it is the first printing. The first commercially released edition is a second printing.

Mass Market Paperback

Release Date: November 1980
Copyright: Copyright © 1980 by MCA Publishing, a Division of MCA, Inc.
Publisher: Jove Books
Page Count: 275
ISBN-10: 0-515-05726-6
SBN: #55726
Cover Price: $2.75
States: “FIRST JOVE EDITION PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 1980" AND “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2"
“Based on a screenplay by Larry Block”

Book Club Edition

Release Date: c. November 1980
Copyright: Copyright © 1980 by MCA Publishing, a Division of MCA, Inc.
Publisher: Jove Books
Page Count: 214
Book Club ID: #3494
States: The code "K51" on page 213 indicates a first printing of this edition.

Notes

Fangoria #11Fangoria #11, February 1981
p52: “The story of Funhouse is simple enough to lend itself to low-budget production. It’s a familiar story-not only to readers of the recent bestselling paperback (adapted by “Owen West” from Block’s screenplay), but it will also remind people of the sort of “scary story” that children swap around a campfire, or huddled under blankets late at night.”

“The Funhouse (the book)” by Drew Rowsome, September 11, 2015

Other editions

UK Sphere mass market paperback

Last updated on May 10th, 2018