Time to report some decisive progress on the expansion of Forgotten Horrors -- that's the first volume, last updated in 1999 -- working from the original 1975 manuscript that George Turner and I had reduced drastically before submitting this thing in 1977 for its A.S. Barnes & Co. edition. (Most of the stripped chapters landed in other projects, many long out of print.) Restoring chapters on the larger independent productions, such as Bulldog Drummond and The Bat Whispers, and adding examples of the jungle-thriller quasi-documentary style (more from Sol Lesser's Principal-Adventure series) and some discoveries/rediscoveries that have come to hand in the years since the turn of the century. Same Depression-era time frame, 1929 up to the British-European censors' ban in 1937 on such pictures. New light on Edgar G. Ulmer's first English-language picture of 1932 (unissued) and its misappropriation by Ed Sullivan, including an embittered observation from Ulmer His Ownself. And a telling discovery (courtesy of Gary D. Rhodes) on the elusive Sicilian-American family-curse picture, Amore e Morte.
Juggling four Forgotten Horrors books just now -- this one, plus an all new FH Vol. VI (1955-1960, approx.), a second FH Comics & Stories (graphic-novel material), an expansion (with revisions) of FH Vol. IV, and a collection of John Wooley's and my long-running Forgotten Horrors column for Fangoria magazine, expanded with new material and fresh insights. Timetables TBA, but plenty of new titles from this studio, meanwhile, in the Comics from the Gone World series at Amazon-dot-com. A CD of scoring cues from the Forgotten Horrors films also is in preproduction, so stay tuned. And all thanks for the show of interest over the long term, from John Wooley, Jan Alan Henderson, and Yrs. Trly.
Juggling four Forgotten Horrors books just now -- this one, plus an all new FH Vol. VI (1955-1960, approx.), a second FH Comics & Stories (graphic-novel material), an expansion (with revisions) of FH Vol. IV, and a collection of John Wooley's and my long-running Forgotten Horrors column for Fangoria magazine, expanded with new material and fresh insights. Timetables TBA, but plenty of new titles from this studio, meanwhile, in the Comics from the Gone World series at Amazon-dot-com. A CD of scoring cues from the Forgotten Horrors films also is in preproduction, so stay tuned. And all thanks for the show of interest over the long term, from John Wooley, Jan Alan Henderson, and Yrs. Trly.
