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  • Chester and the Little Pricks
    Tom Weaver
    In the second story of the Bastard Quest series, Chester finds himself trying to kill the one thing that cannot die...time! With nothing to do, he travels to a secluded village where the inhabitants are taunted and tormented by a band of tiny thieves. But these evildoers soon find out in the most spectacular way to never steal from a bastard! ...
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    19,95 €

  • Creature Feature Creators
    Tom Weaver
    Go behind the scenes of Hollywood’s horror and science fiction classics (and classic schlock) in Tom Weaver’s 13th compilation of confrontations with their makers: more than 25 writers, producers, directors, actors and more. The movies under discussion range from 1940s flicks with spooks and She-Wolves, to the 1970s’ Nature Runs Wild thrillers and drive-in dregs. Dracula, Fr...
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    73,64 €

  • From Page to Silver Scream - 21 Novels That Became Horror and Sci-Fi Movie Favorites
    Tom Weaver
    Every Baby Boomer Monster Kid has seen each of his movie favorites a dozen times, perhaps several dozen times-but how many of the source novels has he read? Top classics such as Dracula and Frankenstein yes, perhaps, but what about the novels that inspired less illustrious thrillers such as The Old Dark House and The Lodger? The minor movies The Maze and Dr. Renault’s Secret? S...
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    40,84 €

  • Mondo Vixens
    Tom Weaver
    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 to perilous adventure and revenge, these women have seen it all and always end up where they belong...on top! But don’t get too close, because these kittens have claws, and it isn’t just their looks that kill. Ask you...
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    22,21 €

  • The 'Five Eyes' Intelligence Sharing Relationship
    John Michael Weaver / Tom Røseth
    This book focuses on qualitative research centering on the 'Five Eyes' countries (the five countries with intelligence sharing relations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States) and how they are leveraging the instruments of national power to advance their position and to look for points of intersection where these countries will work with one ano...
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    145,08 €

  • Chester the Bastard
    Tom Weaver
    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 never as they seemed, and they must join forces with a supposed enemy to battle those they thought to trust the most. ...
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    29,43 €

  • Sardonicus - Scripts from the Crypt #11 (hardback)
    Amanda Russsell / Marc Russell / Tom Weaver
    The laws of man end at Baron Sardonicus’ gate.When lights burn inside,    the castle façade looks like a skull.Wolfbane and hemlock grow in the garden.Why is Sardonicus masked?The peasants do not know.They only know that within the castle,    there are no mirrors.This book is a tribute to prize-winning author Ray Russell (1924-1999), whose works include the novella 'Sardonicus'...
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    52,83 €

  • Sardonicus - Scripts from the Crypt #11
    Amanda Russsell / Marc Russell / Tom Weaver
    The laws of man end at Baron Sardonicus’ gate.When lights burn inside,    the castle façade looks like a skull.Wolfbane and hemlock grow in the garden.Why is Sardonicus masked?The peasants do not know.They only know that within the castle,    there are no mirrors.This book is a tribute to prize-winning author Ray Russell (1924-1999), whose works include the novella 'Sardonicus'...
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    40,78 €

  • Rondo Hatton
    Dr. Robert J. Kiss / DrRobert JKiss / Scott Gallinghouse / Tom Weaver
    In the horror movie heyday of Universal Pictures, he made the studio back lot his own personal preyground: Rondo Hatton, star of the company’s “Creeper” series. The victim of a disfiguring disease, Hatton needed no makeup to play the Creeper, a night-prowling vertebrae-ker, in The Pearl of Death (1944), House of Horrors (1946) and The Brute Man (1946). A lot of misery and physi...
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    28,96 €

  • Scripts from the Crypt
    Scott Gallinghouse / Tom Weaver
    He made the Universal back lot his own personal preyground: Rondo Hatton, who attained B-movie stardom at the very end of his life via the role of the spine-snapping serial killer The Creeper. The victim of a disfiguring disease, Hatton needed no makeup when he played this night stalker in The Pearl of Death (1944), House of Horrors (1946) and The Brute Man (1946). A lot of mis...
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    35,02 €

  • Scripts from the Crypt
    Scott Gallinghouse / Tom Weaver
    He made the Universal back lot his own personal preyground: Rondo Hatton, who attained B-movie stardom at the very end of his life via the role of the spine-snapping serial killer The Creeper. The victim of a disfiguring disease, Hatton needed no makeup when he played this night stalker in The Pearl of Death (1944), House of Horrors (1946) and The Brute Man (1946). A lot of mis...
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    47,08 €

  • A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde
    Tom Weaver
    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 series. Including groundbreaking oldies (Flash Gordon, One Million B.C.); 1950s and 1960s milestones (The War of the Worlds, Psycho, House of Usher); classic schlock (Queen of Outer Space,...
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    59,19 €

  • The Atomic Submarine
    David Schecter / Dr. Robert J. J. Kiss / DrRobert JJKiss / Tom Weaver
    Close Encounters of the Brr KindBeneath the polar ice, seven submarines have been mysteriously destroyed. The Navy must stem this tide of undersea disasters. They send the fleet’s killer sub, the atom-powered Tiger Shark, to the 5,000,000 square miles of Arctic Ocean to neutralize our nation’s newest enemy.BATTLE STATIONS! BATTLE STATIONS!!Their adversary is not foreign but ali...
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    29,05 €

  • The Atomic Submarine (hardback)
    David Schecter / Dr. Robert J. Kiss / DrRobert JKiss / Tom Weaver
    Close Encounters of the Brr Kind  Beneath the polar ice, seven submarines have been mysteriously destroyed. The Navy must stem this tide of undersea disasters. They send the fleet’s killer sub, the atom-powered Tiger Shark, to the 5,000,000 square miles of Arctic Ocean to neutralize our nation’s newest enemy.  BATTLE STATIONS! BATTLE STATIONS!!  Their adversary is not foreign b...
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    35,72 €

  • Universal Horrors
    John Brunas / Michael Brunas / Tom Weaver
    Revised and updated since its first publication in 1990, this acclaimed critical survey covers the classic chillers produced by Universal Studios during the golden age of hollywood horror, 1931 through 1946. Trekking boldly through haunts and horrors from The Frankenstein Monster, The Wolf Man, Count Dracula,nd The Invisible Man, to The Mummy, Paula the Ape Woman, The Cree...
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    59,88 €

  • Boris Karloff’s The Veil (hardback)
    Barbara Bibas Montero / Dr. Robert J. Kiss / DrRobert JKiss / Tom Weaver
    Tense, true, dramatic stories about the mysterious, baffling, unexplainable events in our lives.  In 1958, Frank P. Bibas blazed a ghostly trail when he created the anthology TV series The Veil, hosted by “The King of Monsters” himself, Boris Karloff. Its weird tales were reportedly all based on true-life accounts of frightening phenomena.  Ten of the planned 39 episodes were s...
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    41,27 €

  • Bride of the Gorilla (hardback)
    Tom Weaver
    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 Van Gelder’s beautiful young wife Dina, pushed his employer into the afterlife, took Dina as his bride and made himself master of Van Gelder Manor. But a witch-like servant gives him a dose of jungle just...
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    41,07 €

  • Indestructible Man
    Tom Weaver
    '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 turn for the weird when his corpse is carted off to the laboratory of a medical researcher who gives it a 287,000 volt zap, unintentionally restoring Benton to life and making his skin as hard ...
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    28,82 €

  • Indestructible Man (hardback)
    Tom Weaver
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    40,87 €

  • Attack of the Monster Movie Makers
    Tom Weaver
    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 Bennett, Ben Chapman, Herman Cohen, Robert Day, Val Guest, Susan Hart, Candace Hilligoss, Rose Hobart, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Jacques Marquette, Cameron Mitchell, Ed Nelson, William Phipps, Vincent Price, A...
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    42,16 €

  • They Fought in the Creature Features
    Tom Weaver
    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. Julie Adams, John Agar, Richard Anderson, John Archer, Jeanne Bates, Billy Benedict, Turhan Bey, Lloyd Bridges, Ricou Browning, Robert Cornthwaite, Louise Currie, Richard Denning, Anne Francis, Mark ...
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    42,44 €

  • Earth vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers
    Tom Weaver
    Back in the era of black-and-white horror and sci-fi movies, 'we didn’t have special effects, or the money for ’em,' says Peter Graves, one of the genre’s most popular stars. 'But in those days, an unlimited amount of money wouldn’t have gotten us much better special effects, because they didn’t exist. We had to go with the stories and try to make them as believable as possi...
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    44,53 €

  • I Talked with a Zombie
    Tom Weaver
    'I talked with a zombie'--it DOES seem like an odd thing to say! But for more than 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 life. In this compilation of interviews, 23 more veterans share their stories--strange, frightening and even a...
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    44,40 €

  • Wild Wild Westerners
    Tom Weaver
    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 Conrad, Ross Martin, Alan Ladd, Rock Hudson, Lon Chaney, Jr., Nick Adams, Jock Mahoney, Sam Peckinpah, Johnny Cash and many others!TV Memories of...HAVE GUN-WILL T...
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    29,05 €

  • Wild Wild Westerners (hardback)
    Tom Weaver
      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 Conrad, Ross Martin, Alan Ladd, Rock Hudson, Lon Chaney, Jr., Nick Adams, Jock Mahoney, Sam Peckinpah, Johnny Cash and many others! TV memories of... Hav...
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    35,68 €

  • Scripts from the Crypt
    Tom Weaver
    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 TWO versions of the script, the first set in the jungles of Guatemala; the full story of SUN DEMON’s world premiere at a Texas drive-in; anecdotal memories ...
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    43,34 €

  • Scripts from the Crypt (hardback)
    Tom Weaver
    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 TWO versions of the script, the first set in the jungles of Guatemala; the full story of SUN DEMON’s world premiere at a Texas drive-in; anecdotal memories ...
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    53,08 €

  • The Horror Hits of Richard Gordon
    Tom Weaver
    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 valuable players Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi--not to mention the Fiend Without a Face, the First Man into Space and other black-and-white beasties of the Fabulous Fifties.If you take your fright flicks on the ghast...
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    35,97 €

  • I Was a Monster Movie Maker
    Tom Weaver
    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 Jungle Captive and Weird Woman fall into the latter category.' House of Wax co-star Paul Picerni was fired by the film’s director when he refused to put his head in a working guillotine during a climactic fight scene. Pack...
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    44,26 €

  • Science Fiction Confidential
    Tom Weaver
    David Hedison, who plays a tiny human-headed insect menaced by a spider at the climax of The Fly (1958), says the moviemakers spoiled the scene by giving him a squeaky voice. 'Imagine if, as the camera moved in closer, you actually heard me screeeeaming for my life. That is horror. That is horror.' In Tom Weaver’s eighth interview book, Hedison--and 22 other moviemakers--...
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    58,86 €


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