Gerald Winters has a passion for Stephen King’s books. For two decades, he collected the author’s work, focusing on rare editions and ephemera. He had Japanese translations and an action figure based on King’s appearance on The Simpsons, the Bangor Daily News reported. He even had a few of the author’s original typed manuscripts.
A little more than a year ago, Winters moved to Bangor, Maine, King’s hometown, in order to open a rare bookshop featuring these works. He sold rarities from other fantasy authors as well—J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin—but King was his specialty.
This week, a burst pipe destroyed tens of thousands of dollars worth of those rare books, including some of King’s original manuscripts.
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