HORROR MOVIE HEROES

I'm happy to report that Rue Morgue Library Vol 2: HORROR MOVIE HEROES came out a few months ago and I have finally received my author's copies. This is the follow up to Rue Morgue's hugely successful 200 Alternative Horror Films You Need To See, where I wrote about A SERBIAN FILM.

"Heroes" in this edition are giants of horror film - primarily directors, with some actors and EFX masters added to the mix - that have left their mark on this genre. They are presented through interviews, or at least through words of their prominent and famous colleagues.

HORROR MOVIE HEROES spotlights some of favourite personalities in genre cinema. Includes new and classic interviews with CHRISTOPHER LEE, TOBE HOOPER, ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY, STUART GORDON, ALEXANDRE AJA, DAVID CRONENBERG, VAMPIRA, RAY HARRYHAUSEN and many, many more.

In this book, my contribution is much more substantial, accounting for nearly 10% of content! Specifically, out of 144 pages, my texts occupy a full 12! Specifically, here you can read my interview with a horror legend like Christopher Lee (2 pages), whom I met at the Grossmann Film & Wine Festival.

In addition to Lee, there is also my interview with STUART GORDON (5 pages), with whom I talked at Fantasia in Montreal in 2010, followed by my mini-essay: 5 REASONS WHY I LOVE STUART GORDON.

There you can also find my interview with Jaume Balaguero (3 pages), interviewed at Grossman two years ago, and  my conversation with the Italian master of make-up and visual effects, SERGIO STIVALETTI (2 pages) whom I caught in Belgrade.  

There's really some good stuff to read here; what I personally enjoyed the most are interviews with Wes Craven, Paul Verhoeven, H.G. Lewis, A. Jodorovsky and Richard Stanley, and it is worthwith a special mention for the words of Peter Bogdanovich about working with Boris Karloff on TARGETS.

The full contents are here:

This book is printed in full color, with a great and inspired design that is one of the trademarks of Rue Morgue magazine. So, this is a book that is nice to have and above all it is a useful read.

You can order your copy if you click HERE.

 

And while I'm at Rue Morgue magazine, here's what I wrote about for them this year. From January to December 2014, these are my contributions to Rue Morgue:

# 141

book review: Rural Gothic

film review: Angst (CLASSIC CUT)

# 142

book review: The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters;

book review: Torture Porn: Popular Horror After Saw

# 144

book review: The Lord Came at Twilight

# 145

book review: Ana Kai Tangata

 

# 146

book review: Searchers After Horror

# 147

article + interview (Laird Barron) "Staying Strange": Year's Best Weird Fiction

book review: The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron

# 148

article: Robert Aickman: THE MAN FROM A STRANGER TIME

film review: Michele Soavi's StageFright (CLASSIC CUT)

# 150

book review: The Spectral Link

book review: The Spectral Book of Horror Stories

# 151

book review: A Companion to the Horror Film
book review: A Darke Phantastique