This is the first book-length study of the career and life of Ann Savage, whose performance in Detour earned her a place in Time Magazine's list of the top 10 greatest movie villains. The biography covers her abused childhood and her career as a studio contract player, pin-up queen, B movie star, jetsetter and award-winning aviatrix. A complete annotated filmography with release date, credits, cast, synopsis and commentary for each of her films is included.

Savage Detours: The Life and Work of Ann Savage

Biographies & Memoirs

Lisa Morton

Kent Adamson

Community & Culture

McFarland Company

Crimewave 10

Joel Lane

Charlie Williams

Alexander C. Irvine

Darren Speegle

Kay Sexton

Mick Scully

Murray Shelmerdine

Simon Avery

Nicholas Stephen Proctor

TTA Press

Ashley, a twentysomething California girl, is a postpunk who would rather be called Spike and who worries about money, her family, and freeway traffic. She's also a violent paranoid schizophrenic living in a state facility west of Los Angeles, her disorder kept under control by confinement and the drug Prolixin. 

One day Spike is shocked to find her cell door open and so she ventures out, only to find the walls smeared with blood and the staff missing or dead. She escapes and ventures into a world that's been driven mad by waking nightmares, where she's now the sanest person alive. Searching for answers, Spike embarks on a road trip that will lead her from Beverly Hills to a nightmarish Texas compound to the highest office in the land...

The Lucid Dreaming

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Bad Moon Books

In these pages you'll find the dark stars you grew up watching: Frankenstein, Dracula, Mr. Hyde, the Phantom, the Hunchback...all the silent ones and the first to find their voices are here, and they're even presented in roughly the order in which they first appeared on a silver screen. The Haunted House of the '30s gives way to the Werewolf of the '40s, the Monsters of L.A. Creature of the '50s, and so on, all the way up to our favorite modern boogeyman, the Zombie. In some of these stories, you'll find an earthly incarnation of a famous namesake: Frankenstein is a patched-together, homeless vet, the Invisible Woman is so ordinary you'd never see her; but some of these familiar friends - Dracula, the Devil, or those seriously creepy Clowns - will be instantly recognizable.

Monsters of L.A.

Short Stories & Anthologies

On a Halloween night 300 years ago, something rose out of a Scottish bog to curse the McCafferty clan. Now, in 2010, single mother Merran McCafferty finds her suburban Halloween celebrations torn apart by the arrival of the Samhanach, an ancient trickster demon. When the Samhanach tries to steal Merran's young daughter, Merran is forced to put aside reason and accept that magic is real, and bogies really do exist on Halloween night. The second in Bad Moon Book's annual Halloween novella.

The Samhanach

Literary

"Jack Lichtner is the genius behind Hell Manor, America's most successful Halloween haunted house. Mazes, scare zones, live actors, special effects, crazy gore...Hell Manor's got it all. But Jack gets in over his head when he hires Maeve, a mysterious woman with a penchant for bloody magic and murderous kin who want her back. This Halloween, Jack must use all his powers of illusion to fight off the real magic of the ancient tricksters who have invaded Hell Manor."

Lisa Morton is a multiple Bram Stoker Award winner and one of the world's leading Halloween experts. Her last book for Bad Moon Books, MONSTERS OF L.A., earned her a seventh Bram Stoker Award nomination, and the American Library Association's READERS ADVISORY GUIDE TO HORROR recently named her one of the top five female horror writers. She lives in North Hollywood, California, and can be found online at www.lisamorton.com .

Hell Manor

Barbers &amp; Beauties is a flipbook anthology with four stories from male writers on one side, and four stories from female writers on the other side, each exploring the dark possibilities of beauty. It features introductions by Michael Knost and Nancy Eden Siegel, with stories from authors Gary A. Braunbeck, Tim Lebbon, Kaelan Patrick Burke, Lee Thomas, Rhodi Hawk, Roberta Lannes, Fran Friel and Lisa Morton, with cover art by Cortney Skinner.

Barbers & Beauties

LEE, Thomas

Tim Lebbon

Rhodi Hawk

Michael Knost

Gary A. Braunbeck

Kealan Patrick Burke

Fran Friel

Roberta Lannes

Hummingbird House Press

Fiction and non-fiction. Reality and make-believe. Can you draw the line between the two? Do you know where real horror starts? Blurring the Line is a collection of 20 horror short stories by some of the best writers around, plus 10 non-fiction articles to make you think twice about the world we live in - but then again, maybe some of the stories are real, and some of the non-fiction made up... With tales from Tim Lebbon, Lisa Morton, James A. Moore, Kaaron Warren, Tom Piccirilli, Lisa Hannett, and more, plus frightening artwork by Alex Mcvey, Blurring the Line will make you doubt what you thought you knew, and open you up to possibilities you didn't want to consider. But how much of it all is real?

Blurring the Line

Charles L. Grant

Tom Piccirilli

Cohesion Press

16 LOVECRAFTIAN TALES FROM AN UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY Trains embody the promise and peril of technological advance. They unlock opportunities for wealth and travel, but also create incredible chaos--uprooting populations and blighting landscapes. Work on or around the rails leads to unwelcome discoveries and, in light of the Mythos, dire implications in the spread of the rail system as a whole. 
A certain path to uncovering unwelcome truths about the universe is to venture beyond our own "placid island of ignorance" and encounter foreign cultures. The Orient Express serves as the perfect vehicle for such excursions, designed as a bridge between West and East. Movement into mystery forms the central action for many stories in this volume. The only limitation placed upon writers for this collection was that their works somehow involve the Orient Express and the Mythos. 
The last warning whistle has blown, and we are getting underway. Have your tickets at the ready and settle in for a journey across unexpected landscapes to a destination that--well, we'll just let you see for yourself when you arrive. We promise this though: murder will be the least of your problems on this trip aboard the Orient Express!

Madness on the Orient Express: 16 Lovecraftian Tales of an Unforgettable Journey (Chaosium Fiction)

Kenneth Hite

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN

Dennis Detwiller

Robin D. Laws

Ari Marmell

Elaine Cunningham

James L. Sutter

Cody Goodfellow

Richard Dansky

Lucien Soulban

Penelope Love

Darrell Schweitzer

Geoff Gillan

C.A. Suleiman

Joshua Alan Doetsch

Chaosium, Inc.

eaturing Jack Ketchum, Gary Braunbeck, Thomas F. Monteleone, Ray Garton, Brian Hodge, Ed Gorman, Al Sarrantonio, Mick Garris, and many others, these eighteen original tales celebrate Hollywood and the horror movie-going experience with affection, devotion, and fear. In Midnight Premiere you'll discover how many of these authors have worked in film as screenwriters, actors, and directors and put their particular experiences to use in showing you the dark underside of the Hollyweird dream and the LaLa Land facade. The opening credits are about to roll. Prepare yourself for the shocking and the illuminating, the strange and the fanciful...the real and the lies of celluloid that may well mean more to you than the truth. And remember All the many screaming folks they torment up on the big screen and across these pages...? The leering mad smiles, yowling creatures, and the brandishing of sharp weapons...? All the havoc and mayhem and anguish and horrors...? They do it because they LOVE you. Join a cast including Mick Garris (director of Stephen King's THE STAND and DESPERATION), Patrick Lussier (director of WHITE NOISE: THE LIGHT, DRACULA 2000), William Smith (actor in hundreds of classic B-films including RUN ANGEL RUN and GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE), Kyra Schon (zombie-girl extraordinaire from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD), the number one scream queen of all time Linnea Quigley, and many others as they return to the

Midnight Premiere

Jack Ketchum

Thomas F. Monteleone

Al Sarrantonio

T.M. Wright

Ed. Gorman

Linnea Quigley

Ray-garton

United States

Cemetery Dance Publications

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