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Cover artist Santiago Caruso Language English Pages 82 Genre Horror fiction Illustrator Santiago Caruso | 3.7/5 Goodreads Country United States Publication date 2014 Originally published 2014 Page count 82 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Trade Paperback, ebook, limited edition, lettered edition Similar Joe R Lansdale books, Horror fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prisoner 489 is a horror novella written by American author Joe R. Lansdale. It tells the story of prison workers who help staff a fictional island prison where only the worst of the worst are housed. Most are on death row scheduled to be executed in the electric chair. In the potter's field graveyard the headstones are only marked with numbers in the order in which they were put to death. So prisoner 489 is the four hundred and eighty ninth to be executed. The workers are only maintenance employees and have little contact with the inmates. They have only heard wild rumors about prisoner 489, some quite unbelievable. However, on the night of the execution things go very wrong and the men find themselves to be terrorized and have to fight for their very lives.
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Publishing Information
This book is published by Dark Regions Press and is available as a lettered edition(sold out), a limited edition hardcover, and trade paperback. This work is part of Dark Regions Black Labyrinth Book II series.
Artwork
The artwork and illustrations are by renowned Argentine artist Santiago Caruso.