From dinosaurs to Conquistadores, The Ancient Southwest, a dynamically illustrated collection of natural history and early-day recorded history, takes its cue from the tradition of storytelling in pictures. The narrative medium is the comic strip, applied here “to increase popular interest in geology,” as one of its original contributors described the project. An enormously popular feature in the West Texas newspaper where it had originated more than fifty years ago, The Ancient Southwest has been painstakingly restored and annotated by the cartoonist and cultural historian Michael H. Price as a follow-through to a lengthy collaboration with the primary artist, the late George E. Turner. The strips, originally designed for serialized weekly publication, have gone unseen since 1951–1952. Inspired by the permanent collections of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, the cartoons cover a vast span of prehistory, from the earliest invertebrate and reptilian life to the Age of Mammals and the Paleo-Indians. The volume also contains a full restoration of Turner’s The Palo Duro Story, recounting one of the earliest Spanish explorations of North America from the viewpoint of Cabeza de Vaca. An appendix reproduces a selection of Turner’s college-newspaper cartoons of the post-WWII years, foreshadowing the style he would bring to bear upon The Ancient Southwest and The Palo Duro Story.

The Ancient Southwest & Other Dispatches from a Cruel Frontier

Price, Michael H.

Turner, George E.

Travel

TCU Press

Book by Turner, George E.; Price, Michael H.

Human Monsters: The Bizarre Psychology of Movie Villains

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Kitchen Sink Pr

'Forgotten Horrors' is the a collection of essays from the collaborative duo of George E. Turner and Michael H. Price. This book explores and describes 117 motion pictures produced from 1929 to the late 1940s which fit the criteria of independently produced, weird-menace photoplays produced outside of Hollywood's major studios during it's 'horror cycle' in the 20s and 30s. These were referred to as 'Poverty Row' productions.

Forgotten Horrors: Early Talkie Chillers from Poverty Row

TURNER, George

Eclipse Books

Did Billy the Kid really present a magnificent Arabian horse to a friend as a going away gift - or is this part of the tangled mythology of the Texas desperado? Was a man named "Pink" Higgins one of the best gunslingers in West Texas history - or merely a mighty accurate shooter with his favorite .45 who didn't take kindly to derogatory words about himself or anyone in his circle? These and other tantalizing nuggets from the Old West are posed in The Cruel Plains by Michael J. Price and George E. Turner, a fascinating and informative new collection of short story "puzzlers and torments" from Zone Press that explores the legends and lore of the Southwestern Great Plains. From authors who proudly claim their origins in the oil-and-cattle country of the Southwestern frontier, The Cruel Plains seeks to both inform and entertain while delving into and uncovering the mysteries of both fact and fiction that make western folklore so engaging. While many of the stories in The Cruel Plains were originally made public in the pages of the now defunct Southwest Heritage quarterly magazine, which Turner once served as publisher, they have been freshly revised in this new compilation. Turner, the longtime Editorial Art Director for the Amarillo (TX) News &amp; Globe Times before spending more than two decades as a visual effects and storyboard artist in Hollywood, Calif., also served as editor of The American Cinematographer magazine before his death in 1999. Price considered Turner a mentor, collaborator and friend after initially enjoying Turner's work in the News &amp; Globe Times and later working with him at Southwest Heritage. Price currently is Associate Editor of the Fort Worth Business Press. In their 30-year partnership, Turner and Price also authored the three-volume Forgotten Horrors movie history series, as well as Human Monsters and The Cinema of Adventure, Romance &amp; Terror. Price and Turner are also skilled illustrators who created all of the original artwork and cover art featured in The Cruel Plains.

The Cruel Plains

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Hewell Enterprises

The crime-card controversy of the 1990s comes rampaging back to life in Michael H. Price's anthology of his notorious "Bloody Visions" trading-card folios -- all together in a single whopping volume, larger by far than the original pieces. Rare bonus-card images round out the set, with an additional selection of Price's true-crime comics stories.

Pasteboard Demons: The Art & Ruckus of Bloody Visions

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Hailed by horror-master Guillermo del Toro and CONAN scribe Timothy Truman, FISHHEAD is a new-century classic among horror comics -- from Rondo Award nominee and FORGOTTEN HORRORS author Michael H. Price, ELLERY QUEEN artist and CASE OF THE BLOOD RED STARS author-illustrator Mark Evan Walker, and co-scenarist Lawrence Adam Shell. Based upon Irvin S. Cobb's classic Southern Gothic. A generous selection of bonus tracks draws from Mike Price's COMICS FROM THE GONE WORLD and SOUTHERN-FRIED HOMICIDE series. These freak-show yarns range from the pre-Code 1950s to the postmodern underground-comix scene of the 1990s, including Price &amp; Walker's carney tales "Bally o' the Beast" and "Earth vs. the Sharktopus." Not to mention Price's historical survey of freaks in cinema and John Wooley &amp; Mike Price's study of the carney film SHE FREAK, resurrected from the pages of FANGORIA magazine. Says Guillermo del Toro of FISHHEAD: "Severe perversity, impregnated with that spooky Southern Gothic Spirit... Moving, grotesque, and unforgiving."

Fishhead & Other Carney Gothic Horrors

Comics & Graphic Novels

LANSDALE, Joe R.

Del Toro, Guillermo

Cobb, Irvin S.

Shell, Lawrence Adam

Graphic Novels

The acclaimed Forgotten Horrors series of movie-genre history and criticism lurches into the turning-point stretch of 1949-1954. This 300-plus-page study of the independent studios' forays into horror, S-F, film noir -- and some unclassifiable oddities -- tackles the most conflicted and paranoid period of American cultural history in terms of such breakthrough pictures as these: Mikel Conrad's "The Flying Saucer," the oddly matched set of George Pal's "Destination Moon" and Kurt Neumann's "Rocketship X-M," Edgar G. Ulmer's "The Man from Planet X," Ivan Tors' "Office of Scientific Investigation" trilogy, and William Cameron Menzies' "Invaders from Mars." To say nothing of E.A. Dupont's "The Neanderthal Man," William Castle's exploitation-film debut "It's a Small World," and -- did somebody say, "Skipalong Rosenbloom"?! A brief flowering of science fiction and general-purpose imaginative zeal gives way to the beginnings of what genre historian Phil Hardy has called "an all-out horror revival. Forgotten Horrors Vol. 5 teams the series' co-originator with Wes Craven biographer John Wooley and Lydecker Bros. biographer Jan Alan Henderson for a rip-snorting round-up of essential titles and long-buried rediscoveries.

Forgotten Horrors Vol. 5: The Atom Age

Wooley, John

Henderson, Jan Alan

The acclaimed FORGOTTEN HORRORS film-history series yields its first graphic novel in FORGOTTEN HORRORS COMICS & STORIES -- a collection of comic-book novellas inspired by the low-rent chillers covered in the first five volumes of FORGOTTEN HORRORS, from the Depression years into the Atom-Age 1950s and '60s. From riffs on THE MAN FROM PLANET X and DESTINATION MOON, to takeoffs on THE VAMPIRE BAT and THE BLOB, to the long-unseen TOR JOHNSON--HOLLYWOOD STAR, here is a collection to delight the lover of maverick movies and offbeat comics. The book also marks a decisive tie-in between the FORGOTTEN HORRORS series and Mike Price's COMICS FROM THE GONE WORLD series of graphic novels.

Forgotten Horrors Comics & Stories

Jim Marrs, the bestselling Gold Standard in conspiracy research, and cultural historian Michael H. Price deliver a persuasive study in fact-based fiction in OSWALD'S CONFESSION, a graphic novel designed as a companion piece to Marrs' influential book, CROSSFIRE: THE PLOT THAT KILLED KENNEDY. Retracing Lee Harvey Oswald's final hours among the living, OSWALD'S CONFESSION spins a compelling tale of vain ambition at the ragged edge of mortal danger involving political and criminal intrigues. The mad dash for Oblivion culminates in the presidential assassination of Nov. 22, 1963. The book also collects Marrs & Price's TALES FROM THE WAR series of short comics stories, from the science-fictional "It Takes a Child To Raze a Village" to the Civil War-era shaggy-dog yarn "Lot of Brass!" Bonus tracks include an array of war-comics rarities from the pre-Code 1950s.

Oswald's Confession & Other Tales from the War

Marrs, Jim

The publication in 1980 of "Forgotten Horrors: Early Talkie Chillers from Poverty Row" launched a new direction in film scholarship by subjecting the weirder movies of Old Hollywood’s low-rent district to the scholarly and critical attention customarily reserved for acknowledged classics from the big studios. Authors George E. Turner and Michael H. Price staked out a distinctive territory while rediscovering little-seen favorites and identifying early work from important stars-to-be and emerging major directors. “We intended the title, 'Forgotten Horrors,' to be a challenge—a self-denying prophecy,” says Mike Price in announcing a new edition, revised and expanded. “With very few exceptions, such as 'White Zombie' and 'The Vampire Bat,' these Depression-era pictures had been popularly forgotten through neglect, careless archiving, and inconsistent copyright maintenance. We sought to make them less ‘forgotten.’ “George and I covered more than 100 such films from 1929-1937 in the original edition, and within a few years of its publication many of these pictures started cropping up on the home-video market,” adds Price. “One large-scale video dealer went so far as to publish a catalogue called 'Forgotten Horrors.' Mission accomplished.” The new edition, Forgotten Horrors: The Original Volume—Except More So, features many new chapters and an introduction by Mel Brooks—the filmmaker responsible for such horror pictures as "Young Frankenstein" and David Cronenberg’s "The Fly." The expansion will serve both to unearth additional rarities and to restore much of the original manuscript. At the behest of the original publisher, the Tantivy Press of London, the authors had removed many chapters for the sake of brevity—including coverage of such significant independent films as Sam Goldwyn’s "Bulldog Drummond" and Harold Lloyd’s creepy comedy "Welcome Danger," both from 1929. These and others have been restored to the text, along with many photographs and advertising images previously unpublished. A key new discovery is a lost film by acclaimed director Edgar G. Ulmer, "The Warning Shadow"—made shortly before Ulmer’s big-time breakthrough with the Boris Karloff-Bela Lugosi starrer "The Black Cat" (1934). While "The Warning Shadow" remains a missing film, Price has traced its surviving footage to an unlikely location and reports accordingly on the find. More than 50 new chapters complete the package, ranging from weird Westerns to ghostly crime melodramas and offbeat comedies. The book’s 370 pages cover the rise of such iconic stars as Boris Karloff, Ginger Rogers, and Gene Autry; the decline of many silent-era talents who stuck around through the arrival of talking pictures in the late 1920s; and significant relationships between such major studios as Columbia and Universal and low-budget companies including Tiffany, Majestic, Victory, and Monogram. Michael H. Price and the late George Turner, longtime editor of "American Cinematographer" magazine, also are responsible for such books as "The Making of King Kong" ("Spawn of Skull Island") (1975-2002); "Forgotten Horrors Vol. 2" (2001); and "The Cinema of Adventure, Romance &amp; Terror" (1989). Price also has delivered Vols. 3-5 of the "Forgotten Horrors" series in collaboration with genre historians John Wooley and Jan Alan Henderson. A collection of Price’s film reviews for the New York Times News Service (1985-1998) is in preparation.

Forgotten Horrors: The Original Volume -- Except More So

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