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The acclaimed Forgotten Horrors series of movie-genre history and criticism lurches into the turning-point stretch of 1949-1954. This 300-plus-page study of the independent studios' forays into horror, S-F, film noir -- and some unclassifiable oddities -- tackles the most conflicted and paranoid period of American cultural history in terms of such breakthrough pictures as these: Mikel Conrad's "The Flying Saucer," the oddly matched set of George Pal's "Destination Moon" and Kurt Neumann's "Rocketship X-M," Edgar G. Ulmer's "The Man from Planet X," Ivan Tors' "Office of Scientific Investigation" trilogy, and William Cameron Menzies' "Invaders from Mars." To say nothing of E.A. Dupont's "The Neanderthal Man," William Castle's exploitation-film debut "It's a Small World," and -- did somebody say, "Skipalong Rosenbloom"?! A brief flowering of science fiction and general-purpose imaginative zeal gives way to the beginnings of what genre historian Phil Hardy has called "an all-out horror revival. Forgotten Horrors Vol. 5 teams the series' co-originator with Wes Craven biographer John Wooley and Lydecker Bros. biographer Jan Alan Henderson for a rip-snorting round-up of essential titles and long-buried rediscoveries.

The acclaimed FORGOTTEN HORRORS film-history series yields its first graphic novel in FORGOTTEN HORRORS COMICS & STORIES -- a collection of comic-book novellas inspired by the low-rent chillers covered in the first five volumes of FORGOTTEN HORRORS, from the Depression years into the Atom-Age 1950s and '60s. From riffs on THE MAN FROM PLANET X and DESTINATION MOON, to takeoffs on THE VAMPIRE BAT and THE BLOB, to the long-unseen TOR JOHNSON--HOLLYWOOD STAR, here is a collection to delight the lover of maverick movies and offbeat comics. The book also marks a decisive tie-in between the FORGOTTEN HORRORS series and Mike Price's COMICS FROM THE GONE WORLD series of graphic novels.

Michael H. Price's forays into the horrors of Texas -- real and imaginary, horripilating and often humorous, make for a whopping 300 pages of comic-book stories. Featuring such championship artists and authors as John Wooley, Rand Holmes, Jack "Jaxon" Jackson, Bernie Wrightson, Pat Boyette, Robert Hayward Webb, and Meatwood Flack. Not to mention a premiere appearance for the "Killer Shrews" graphic novella, based upon the 1959 film and its 2015 revamp at Texas' Hip Pocket Theatre. From the authors of the "Forgotten Horrors" series of movie-history books.

Michael H. Price and John Wooley continue their exploration of the Badlands of Grindhouse Cinema with "Forgotten Horrors to the Nth Degree" -- an expanded compilation of their acclaimed "Forgotten Horrors" columns for FANGORIA magazine, and a continuation of the long-running FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of movie-history books, spanning from 1929 into times more recent. The Afterword is by artist and film theorist Stephen R. Bissette, who chronicles a wealth of chillers with origins in his native Vermont. The cappers include a comprehensive survey of the bizarre filmmaking career of Larry Buchanan (of "Mars Needs Women"), a sampling of Mike Price's long-out-of-print newspaper and New York Times News Service columns, a primary-source history of the Gore Film Trilogy of Herschell Gordon Lewis and David F. Friedman, and a study-in-depth of Leo Fong's career in martial-arts thrillers.

Michael H. Price's forays into the horrors of Texas -- real and imaginary, hidden and not-so-hidden, make for a whopping 280 pages of comic-book stories, featuring such championship artists as Dan Burr, Frank Stack, Todd Camp, Pat Boyette, Frank Thorne, and Lamberto Alvarez. From the authors of the "Forgotten Horrors" series of movie-history books, including John Wooley.

For the first time ever, the top right-handed pitcher on the fabled New York Yankees teams of the early 1960s chronicles his life in both baseball and professional golf. The only man in major-league history to throw the final pitch in two World Series Game Sevens, Ralph Terry takes us inside the dugouts and onto the fields with a wealth of remembrances about his teammates and foes, including such unforgettable athletes as Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Yogi Berra, Billy Martin, and Elston Howard, to name only a few.A must for any sports fan, RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE celebrates the life and times of a star pitcher - and, later, successful pro golfer - who exchanged the dusty diamonds of his tiny Oklahoma hometown for the manicured playing field of Yankee Stadium, becoming a baseball legend in the process.

Michael H. Price's FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of movie encyclopedias forges on through the 1940s with this expanded fourth volume -- amended and updated from the original edition. New showcase chapter unearths significant detail on the most elusive exploitation film of the postwar years, Dwain Esper's CURSE OF THE UBANGI, with significant assistance from the Web-based Classic Horror Film Board. The foreshadowings of the Atom Age of the 1950s run thick and deep, and so do the crossovers among horror films, science-fiction films, and film noir-styled crime melodramas.

Onward through the 1960s forges Michael H. Price's acclaimed "Forgotten Horrors" series of movie-genre studies, pausing this time at the pivotal years of 1962-1964, the better to unearth such rarities as "Flaming Creatures," "Pyro," and "Dr. Crippen," in context with the more generally well-known horror and SF titles of the period. With heavy-duty additional contributions from John Wooley and Frank Stack, and an insightful discussion of the "Beach Party" craze and its kinship to the horror-movie scene.

Michael H. Price's celebrated history of the independent horror film -- with science-fiction, offbeat mysteries and Westerns, and strange comedies thrown in for good measure -- continues through the watershed period of 1958-1959 with this seventh volume. Price contributes the customary in-depth appraisals of films including "The Blob," "The Fly," and "The Colossus of New York," but also emphasizes such little-known oddities as "The Monster of Piedras Blancas," "The Space Children," and the weird swamp-water melodramas "Okefenokee" and "Attack of the Giant Leeches." John Wooley contributes a critical history of Bert I. Gordon's essential films (such as "Attack of the Puppet People") from a primary-source vantage, and Jan Alan Henderson offers a personal view of the tragic Yvette Vickers, of "Giant Leeches" and "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman." The longest-running genre-study series in commercial publishing (since 1979) strikes again... and again... and again... and... yes, well, you get the picture...

Michael H. Price's "Forgotten Horrors" series veers into the "Beach Party" movie craze of the 1960s, turning up unprecedented insights into the origins of the phenomenon and its connection to exotic filmmaking trends of earlier times. Price and co-author John Wooley make a point of exploring the Acquanetta-to-Annette connection between 1940s Hollywood and 1960s Hollywood -- only one of many revelations in store.

It waits in dark corners. In your closet. Under your bed.It hides in the cellar. Waiting, waiting until you least expect- Mick Winters spent three summers as a child with his aunt in a small, rural town, where everyone is your neighbor. He hasn''t been back in twenty years. But when his aunt passes and leaves her house to him with the note "and you know why," he finds the old town exactly the way he remembers. Everything is the same-including the thing in the cellar he tried so hard to forget.  Except the rules have changed. What once lurked in the dark, hiding, only to disappear again if you looked closely, is now more powerful than ever before. And no longer content to lure its victims in. Or to simply scare the hell out of them. Certain the bizarre deaths in town are tied to his arrival, Mick sets out to fight his childhood fears. Only now, they have a face...

When inventor and movie studio pioneer Thomas Edison wanted to capture western magic on film in 1904, where did he send his crew?To Oklahoma''s 101 Ranch near Ponca City. And when Francis Ford Coppola readied young actors Tom Cruise and Matt Dillon to portray teen class strife in the 1983 movie The Outsiders, he took cast and crew to Tulsa, the setting of S. E. Hinton''s acclaimed novel. From Edison to Coppola and beyond, Oklahoma has served as both backdrop and home base for cinematic productions. The only book to chronicle the history of made-in-Oklahoma films, John Wooley''s Shot in Oklahoma explores the variety, spunk, and ingenuity of moviemaking in the Sooner State over more than a century.Wooley''s trek through cinematic history, buttressed by meticulous research and interviews, hits the big films readers have heard of-but maybe didn''t realize were shot in the state-along with lesser-known offerings. We also get the films'' intriguing backstories. For instance, President Theodore Roosevelt''s fascination with a man purportedly able to catch a wolf in his hands led to The Wolf Hunt, shot in the Wichita Mountains and screened in the White House in 1909. Over time, homegrown movies such as Where the Red Fern Grows (1974, 2003) have given way to feature films including The Outsiders and Rain Man (1988). Throughout this tale, Wooley draws attention to unsung aspects of state and cinematic history, including early all-black movies lensed in Oklahoma''s African American towns and films starring American Indian leads.With a nod to more recent Hollywood productions such as Twister (1996) and Elizabethtown (2005), Wooley ultimately explores how a low-budget slasher movie created in Oklahoma in the 1980s transformed the movie business worldwide. Punctuated with photographs and including a filmography of more than one hundred productions filmed in the state, Shot in Oklahoma offers movie lovers and historians alike an engaging ride through untold cinematic history.