You don’t have to be Stephen King to find small-town amusement parks inherently terrifying, but that author sees enough suspense in the environs of a 1970s-era carnival – and all the rusty arcade attractions and rickety roller coasters that suggests – to set a new novel there. On Wednesday the Hard Case Crime imprint of Titan Books plans to announce that it will publish “Joyland,” a new work of fiction by Mr. King, whose protagonist is a college student working at a North Carolina theme park in the summer of 1973. While employed there the character “confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever,” the publisher said in a news release. Charles Ardai, the Hard Case Crime editor, said in a statement that “Joyland” is “a whodunit, it’s a carny novel, it’s a story about growing up and growing old, and about those who don’t get to do either because death comes for them before their time.”
Hard Case Crime, which published Mr. King’s 2005 mystery novel “The Colorado Kid,” said it would release “Joyland” in June 2013. Mr. King said in a statement that, in addition to his affection for the subject matter of the book, “I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid, and for that reason, we’re going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being.” He added, “‘Joyland’ will be coming out in paperback, and folks who want to read it will have to buy the actual book.”
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