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Tom Weaver
Learn yet more about Hollywood's horror and science fiction classics (and classic schlock) in Tom Weaver's 13th compilation of confrontations with their makers: writers, producers, directors, actors and more. The…
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Wild! Fast! Free! Take a ride with four ferocious women as they tear through the American desert in search of the next big thrill. From go-go bars and biker brawls…
Tom Weaver, Gregory W Mank
The complete script and history of The Ghost of Frankenstein.
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Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown at Rugby, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts…
Discusses moviemakers’ horror and science fiction movie experiences as part of such films and TV series as The Blob , It Came from Outer Space , Star Trek , The…
Phil Brown, who played Luke Skywalker’s uncle in Star Wars, said, In my long life in films, there are ones I’m proud of and those I’m not proud of. The…
Twenty horror and science fiction moviemakers - both in front of and behind the camera - reminisce about some of their great (and not so great!) films. Merry Anders, Charles…
These men and women saved the planet from aliens, behemoths, monsters, zombies, and other bloated, stumbling threats–in the movies, at least–and now they tell their stories.
For fans of SF and horror films, will there ever be a decade to compare with the 1950s? Actors, directors, producers, and crews prevailed over microbudgets and four-day shooting schedules…
The complete history of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, with many, many pictures, behind the scenes information from Tom Weaver, and the complete shooting script of the movie.
In this one-of-a-kind volume, you’ll learn everything under the sun about producer-director-star Robert Clarke’s 1959 monster classic: Clarke’s in-depth account of the making of his low-budget independent movie; reprints of…
Butcher Benton, a crook who pulled a Los Angeles armored car robbery, trudges to San Quentin’s gas chamber filled with loathing for his double-crossing partners in crime. Things take a…
In this jam-packed jamboree of conversations, more than 60 movie veterans describe their experiences on the sets of some of the world’s most beloved sci-fi and horror movies and television…
Poverty Row Horror films were cheaply produced with writing that ranged from bad to atrocious. These essays contain full filmographic data on the 31 horror chillers made by the three…
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Go behind the scenes with 20 of the most talkative people of Hollywood’s horror, science fiction and serial films of the 1930s through 1960s. Also included is A Salute to…
A collection of interviews that go behind the scenes of Golden Age science fiction, horror and fantasy filmmaking. Among the interviewed are Casey Adams, John Badham, Antony Carbone, Robert Clarke…
Features 28 interviews with some of the sharpest and talkative stars and movie makers of the classic SF and horror films: Richard Matheson, Janet Leigh, Acquanetta, Hazel Court, Kim Hunter…
Contains interviews with the men and women who made the horror and sci-fi favorites of the 1940s, ‘50s and '60s, including actors such as Mike Connors, Brett Halsey, Natalie Trundy…
A collection of conversations with movie industry veterans, with over 60 interviewees describing their experiences on the sets of sci-fi and horror movies and television series. The discussions offer a…
For over 25 years, Tom Weaver has been chatting up zombies and many other vintage movie monsters, along with the screenwriters, producers, directors and actors responsible for bringing them to…
Perhaps no films attracted more rabid fans and less critical acclaim than black-and-white horror and sci-fi movies . The men and women who made the characters come to life are…
AA Files 70 features contributions by Joseph Bedford, Jesus Vassallo, Andrew Leach, Jean-Louis Cohen, Susan Holden, Enrique Walker, Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano, Dietrich Neumann, Juergen Schulz, Goswin Schwendinger, Gavin Stamp…
AA Files 71 features essays on Brunelleschi, by Pier Vittorio Aureli, on the Museum Insel Hombroich, by William Firebrace, on Louis Bonnier, possibly the most boring architect in nineteenth-century France…
AA Files 72 features contributions by Davide Spina, Thomas Daniell, Itsuko Hasegawa, Mario Tedeschini-Lalli, Laurent Stalder & Moritz Gleich, Colin Rowe, Daniel Naegele, Irenee Scalbert, Peter St John, Silvia Micheli…
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AA Files 73 features contributions on Patrick Hodgkinson and essays and conversations by Matthew Mullane, Mariana Siracusa, Eva Branscome, Nicholas Olsberg, Mike Dempsey, Helen Thomas, Thomas Weaver, Jonathan Sergison, Alberto…
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AA Files 74 features essays by Peter Wilson, William Firebrace, Michael Hill, Dietrich Neumann, Dagmar Motycka Weston, Simona Ferrari & Wataru Sawada, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Charles Rice & Kenny Cupers…
AA Files 75 features essays by Freya Wigzell, Kristina Jaspers, Claire Zimmerman, Laila Seewang, Roberta Marcaccio, Rebecca Siefert, Shantel Blakely, Francesco Zuddas, Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Victor Plahte Tschudi, Francisco Gonzalez de…
Everything under the sun about producer-director-star Robert Clarke’s 1959 monster classic.
TV memories of… Have Gun-Will Travel, The Rifleman, Maverick, Davy Crockett, The Virginian, The Wild Wild West, The Rebel, and more!
Paul Picerni
Hardback version. Picerni’s stage-screen-TV career took him from small East Coast theater groups to Hollywood studios where he acted alongside stars on the level of John Wayne, Errol Flynn, Audie…
Scott Gallinghouse,Tom Weaver
This book tells his full story and pays tribute with a biography chapter, the lowdown on The Brute Man’s production and theatrical release, artist George Chastain’s tribute to other brute…
Picerni’s stage-screen-TV career took him from small East Coast theater groups to Hollywood studios where he acted alongside stars on the level of John Wayne, Errol Flynn, Audie Murphy, Burt…
What does Producer: RICHARD GORDON mean to you? If you’re a fan of classic horror films, you know he’s the only living producer to have worked with the genre’s most…
A posse of Hollywood’s wild Westerners recall their dusty adventures (and misadventures) with John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Burt Lancaster, Tim Holt, James Arness, Richard Boone, Chuck Connors, Charles Starrett, Robert…
Chester and Percy journey to destroy a coven of witches at the king's request. After encountering numerous and harrowing obstacles, the true nature of their mission is revealed. Things were…
This is the hardback version. On a South American rubber plantation stands the home of Klaas Van Gelder-a house whose claim to fame is murder. Barney the foreman, beguiled by…
Gregory W Mank, Tom Weaver
The complete script and behind the scenes story of The Mummy's Ghost.
Tom Weaver,David Schecter,Steve Kronenberg
He was the final addition to Universal’s royal family of movie monsters: The Creature from the Black Lagoon. With his scaly armor, razor claws and a face only a mother…
Tom Weaver, Laura Wagner, Rich Scrivani
Mummy
Is the root of all evil!
Monster Kids' favorite movie mummy Kharis scream-iered in 1940's The Mummy's Hand and returned in a new chiller-diller two years later, dealing out…
Marc Russell,Amanda Russsell,Tom Weaver
A complete history and the screenplay of Sardonicus.
