Received mine as well. It has now gone up to £45 plus delivery.

The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films
 

I know it's been out a while But it must of passed me by.,...

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Great book. :clap:

Have you got the rest of Marcus Hearn's Hammer books?

No but will hopefully pick up some more soon...

The Art of Hammer and The Hammer Vault i think are essential and you'll love them.

Hammer Glamour is probably less essential but well worth a purchase if you like full page images of glamorous ladies.

The authors of the book you've just purchased are Doctor Who people. Hearn is the editor of the Doctor Who magazine as well as being Hammer's official historian whilst Alan Barnes does a lengthy in depth look at a Doctor Who story every month in the magazine.

Both feature regularly in the docs on the Hammer Studio Canal blu-rays.

If you are interested Hearn has also done A Doctor Who Vault book similar to the Hammer one. If you like Doctor Who at all then that book is an equally essential book on the shows first fifty years. (No Capaldi or Whittaker)

Hearb
 

Now you mention it I do remember seeing Hearn in those Hammer documentaries,all those books you listed including the Dr Who one sounds really good, I'll investigate more thanks:thankingyou:.

If i remember correct, Hearn directed all the Studio Canal Hammer docs too.

Yeah, The Hammer Story is a great book.
I have both editions.

This from the first pages of the my first edition I collected is irreplaceable.

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Wow, Dave that's fantastic.

Who are they all?

I can see Jackie Pearce, James Bernard, Maddie Smith, Francis Matthews, Dave Prowse, Caroline Munro, Caron Gardner, Val Leon, Yvonne Romain, Julie Ege, Jenny Hanley, Shirley Anne Field, Sarah Lawson?, Anthony Valentine, Eddie Powell, Freddie Francis, Edward De Souza ?, Janina Faye, Veronica Carlson and what looks to be Sammo Hung :lol:

Who have i missed?

Okay, let me go through..

Valerie Leon, Dave Prowse,Caroline Munro,Sidonie Bond,Mike Tilley,Andrea Lawrence,Douglas Wilmer,Madeline Smith,Julian Glover,Jacqueline Pierce,Caron Gardner,Francis Matthews,Geoffrey Bayldon, Madeline Collinson,Martine Beswick,Ray Harryhausen,Ingrid Pitt,Yvonne Romain,Julie Ege,James Bernard,Suzanna Leigh,Jenny Hanley,Shirley Anne Field,Veronica Carlson,Anthony Valentine,Eddie Powell,Freddie Francis, Barbera Allen,Edward De Suza, Thora Hird,Damien Thomas,Anthony Higgins (Corlan),Virginia Wetherall,Geoffrey Toon,Janina Faye,Kate O Mara,Jennie Lindon and Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes.

I think that's it.
...and that's just this book!!!!

The Art of Hammer
 

Was thinking of getting The Art of Hammer next ??

Picked up a couple of entertainment related books today in Sainsbury's.

Anthony Daniels Star Wars memoirs and a Doctor Who short story collection written by the likes of Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Neil Gaiman and Russell T Davies all written in lockdown.

Has anyone got the new Dark Side/Allan Bryce Italian Horror book yet?

https://thedarksidemagazine.com/prod...lty-pleasures/

If so can you post some random page pics :)

This isn't helpful to what you ask Justin, but i decided not to bother with this book.

The books aren't very thick and to cover all of Italian horror from giallo to Gothic to splatter in one volume, well i didn't see it being very in depth about any subject really. When you think they've produced books of the same length on single studios like Hammer and Amicus, then that's my case in point.

They could have done single volumes on the cannibal and Fulci films and on giallo too.

Of course anyone who has it and says it's really good then i'll go order a copy.

That is helpful actually thanks :)
But if people do own it and can share any details I would still appreciate it!

Hammer time
 

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Can't believe you bought that. It's rubbish! ;)

Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema
 

Saw this on Amazon,I have the other coffee table books on Ray👍, wonder what this is like....

Go for it!!
I have this book on my list as well.

I decided not to bother seeing as it's a paperback and my other three Harryhausen coffee table books are all hardback.

My birthday brought me this. Looks like a lot of research went into this one... can't wait to dive in....

On the way..
It's going to have to be put away until Christmas Day though.

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I vampiri / Lust of the Vampire by Riccardo Freda

Tempi duri per i vampiri / Uncle Was a Vampire by Steno (Stefano Vanzina)

L’amante del vampiro / The Vampire and the Ballerina by Renato Polselli

Il sangue e la rosa / Blood and Roses by Roger Vadim

Il mulino delle donne di pietra / Mill of the Stone Women by Giorgio Ferroni

La maschera del demonio / Black Sunday by Mario Bava

L’ultima preda del vampiro / The Playgirls and the Vampire by Piero Regnoli

Maciste contro il vampiro / Goliath and the Vampires by Giacomo Gentilomo

Ercole al centro della Terra / Hercules in the Haunted World by Mario Bava

La strage dei vampiri / Slaughter of the Vampires by Roberto Mauri (Giuseppe Tagliavia)

Il mostro dell’Opera by Renato Polselli

L’orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock / The Terror of Dr. Hichcock by Riccardo Freda

I tre volti della paura / Black Sabbath by Mario Bava

Ercole contro Moloch / Conquest of Mycene by Giorgio Ferroni

Danza macabra / Castle of Blood by Antonio Margheriti

Roma contro Roma / War of the Zombies by Giuseppe Vari

La cripta e l’incubo / Crypt of the Vampire by Camillo Mastrocinque

Maciste e la regina di Samar / Hercules Against the Moon Men by Giacomo Gentilomo

Amanti d’oltretomba / Nightmare Castle by Mario Caiano

La vendetta di Lady Morgan by Massimo Pupillo

Il Conte Dracula / Count Dracula by Jesús Franco

La notte dei dannati / Night of the Damned by Filippo Walter Ratti

…Hanno cambiato faccia by Corrado Farina

La corta notte delle bambole di vetro / Short Night of Glass Dolls by Aldo Lado

Nella stretta morsa del ragno / Web of the Spider by Antonio Margheriti

La notte dei diavoli / Night of the Devils by Giorgio Ferroni

Riti, magie nere e segrete orge nel Trecento... / The Reincarnation of Isabel by Renato Polselli

Il prato macchiato di rosso by Riccardo Ghione

Le vergini cavalcano la morte / The Legend of Blood Castle by Jorge Grau

L’uomo che uccideva a sangue freddo / Shock Treatment by Alain Jessua

Il plenilunio delle vergini / The Devil’s Wedding Night by Paolo Solvay (Luigi Batzella)

Dracula cerca sangue di vergine... e morì di sete!!! / Blood for Dracula by Paul Morrissey

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero: Dracula in Brianza / Dracula in the Provinces by Lucio Fulci


**Usually the cover price is £75 but today only 30th November the book is 50% off.

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com...1956-1975.html

The Naked Lens by Jack Sargeant.

One Of Creation's series on the fringes of two cultures clashing. Covering Kerouac, Ginsberg, WSB etc, it was a decent enough read. Found most of them on YT cough.

The Spaghetti Western Digest: issue #
 

The Spaghetti Western Digest: issue # 2

Great little book style zine about our favourite pasta Western s.....

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Hancock
 

Mixed bag this week, three books on Tony Hancock,one about Giallo movies (it's one of those Amazon published books) and this month's Copy of plagiarism for the masses.

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The giallo book, Inspector. What is it exactly? Reviews or something else?

It's more of list with plot synopsis and short reviews with some movie info,it's about 330 pages printed on demand, cheap and cheerful no pics, nothing in depth....

Cheers :clap:

On the subject of Amazon printed books/mags, I picked this up when first released about a month ago, issue 1. Good read.

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I hope John Harrison's verdict on Kelly's Heroes is that it's a magnificent fun filled action adventure masterpiece.

Do you have the,2nd edition yet Dave,has Mad Max on the front cover????

I Love Kellys heroes but have to say Oddball is a totally Sixties character that is totally out of time in the film, it's like a Tarantino prototype, just bung any old shit in and hope nobody notices..
:behindsofa:

Still if there hadn't been no Kellys Heroes,we would not of had An American Werewolf In London either...

Eh?

John Landis was an uncredited production assistant on Kellys Heroes,and said he witnessed a funeral in Yugoslavia where they were shooting,and they buried the guy with something (can't remember what it was now he said it was) to prevent him turning into a werewolf (that's the jist of the story) he has mentioned it several times on dvd extra etc...

Yes, got it!

Contents include Mad Max, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Charles Bronson and Michael Winner in the 70s, Animal House, Rollercoaster, Sitting Target plus more..

A couple of movie related hardbacks on the way in April that may interest some.

The toys of He-Man for me :woot:...I want my childhood back

I have a hardback showing all the Star Wars figures released from the first three movies and beyond. I love that book. I was lucky enough to collect all the figures as they were released with the movies. However any that came out after Jedi i'd grown out of it by then.

I also had a few vehicles such as a Land Speeder, Scout Walker, Imperial Troop Carrier, X-Wing Fighter, Droid Factory, Sand Crawler playset, Death Star playset and this large Rebel Shuttle which housed all the figures.

A friend had the Ewok Village and Millennium Falcon play sets but i didn't. They were awesome toys.

Star Wars was pretty much all the toys i bought. Never was into Scalextric or remote control cars or Airfix or Action Man, that sort of thing although i did collect Action Force toys in my early high school years. I loved them*

*Times were a lot simpler then in the early 80's.

Think it was 88-89 our Toymaster store moved to a smaller location and next best thing was John Menzies and Woolworths and they rarely sold Star Wars figures, £3 pocket money spent was on the Spectrum game.