5/31/23 new arrival:
1. Mad Man: The Collected Short Fiction Volume Seven
2. R. A. Lafferty
3. Centipede Press
4. 2023
5. 1st limited HC 65/300
6. Why I own it: I'd only encountered a handful of stories by Lafferty - all of them were very different from each other but uniformly wonderful. When Centipede started this series, I was more than happy to purchase them all. Looking forward to this set; I think there's only two I've read before!
5/15/23 random entry:
1. Brian De Palma's Carrie
2. Joseph Aisenberg
3. Centipede Press
4. 2011
5. 1st edition TPB
6. Why I own it: Another book that discusses a favorite movie in gory detail (pun intended).
3/8/23 random entry:
1. Nosferatu
2. Paul Monette/Werner Herzog
3. Centipede Press
4. 2011
5. 1st HC limited edition
6. Why I own it: I enjoy reading screenplays, especially from the classic monster movies. This handsome volume has the press kit from Herzog of his 1979 reworking of the original 1922 Nosferatu, a gallery of stills from the movie, and the adaptation by Paul Monette.
Awaiting our return was a huge stack of mail and some goodies.
Yes, it was a #BoxesOfBooks day!
From #CentipedePress is #StephenKing's wonderfully illustrated "The Long Walk."
From #SubterraneanPress is #JoeRLansdale's "The Events Concerning" with two novellas:
— The Events Concerning a Nude Fold-Out Found in a Harlequin Romance
— The Events Concerning Two Stabbed Clowns in a Bloody Bathtub
1/18/23 new arrival:
1. The Dreamthief's Daughter
2. Michael Moorcock
3. Centipede Press
4. 2022
5. 1st Centipede edition, signed, 163/300
6. Why I own it: Big Moorcock/Elric fan. This is the 7th volume in Centipede's series of lavish Elric volumes. Great writing, wonderful art, and an impressively made book.
Just finished the #CentipedePress edition of #AlanDeanFoster's novelization of the movie "#DarkStar" which was #JohnCarpenter's first feature film.
A fun read that makes me want to go back and watch the movie again after 40+ years.
Benson Arizona!
Here is my review on Goodreads:
4/5: Most excellent novelization of john Carpenter's film " Dark Star" which makes the bonkers confusion of the movie into a comprehensible story: Five men sent on a 20 year mission that turns into a race between their ship's crumbling infrastructure and their mind's deteriorating sense of reality. The Centipede Press edition includes an introduction by the author that is a mini-primer on the ins and outs of novelizing a movie, along with reproductions of movie posters, advertising for other markets and alternate covers for the novel that have appeared over the years. The Centipede Press editi...
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