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Les Passagers soundtrack
January 4, 2015
Not many people realize that there was a film version of Shattered. Titled Les Passegers, this French film was released back in 1977. Recently a CD was released by Music Box Records in a limited (yet unnumbered) run of just 500 copies. What makes this exceptionally interesting is that the CD contains both the soundtrack used in the released film by Claude Bolling, and an abandoned first score by Eric Demarsan.
You can still order copies from Screen Archives Entertainment and you can read a review of the disc @ AssignmentX.
Saint Odd limited editions update
January 2, 2015
According to the Charnel House Web site:
The numbered edition of SAINT ODD is now out of print.
There are a few lettered copies still available for sale.
2014 My Year in Blogging
January 1, 2015
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it. (Click the image below for the full report.)
Happy New Year
January 1, 2015
5 Films in 2014 You Should Have Seen But Probably Haven't
December 31, 2014
Odd Thomas:
Based on the novel by Dean Koontz, ‘Odd Thomas’ bypassed cinemas and went straight to DVD after being held back from release for over a year due to legal wranglings. Anton Yelchin plays the title character whose name is indeed Odd Thomas, a young man who can see dead people as well as beings he refers to as ‘Bodachs’, strange entities who appear when something catastrophic is about to happen. Sticking fairly closely to the novel the film is quirkily funny, spooky, surprising, and by the film’s end really quite heart wrenching. ‘GI Joe’ director Stephen Sommers works with a lower budget here but this is one of his better films. I hope more adaptations are made from the ‘Odd Thomas’ series of books, but its DVD only release may have squashed that, and if you see a Bodach hanging around around Hollywood then that is probably true.
Read the full list @ Moviepilot.
Big-time evil
December 30, 2014
The Stunning Conclusion
December 23, 2014
Odd time
December 18, 2014
One Month Left…
December 13, 2014
“John D. MacDonald, My Absurd Voice, and a Wonderful Dog named Rhu” by Dean Koontz
December 12, 2014
Dean’s published a new essay on his site “on writing and narrating introductions for the new John D. MacDonald audiobook collection.”
A couple of weeks ago, I went to a recording studio to read short introductions that I had done for the Audible audiobook versions of eight John D. MacDonald novels. The late John D was arguably the greatest author of popular fiction in the 20th century; and his work is better than most of what passes for “literary” fiction. If I had to name two novelist heroes, Dickens and John D would make that short list. Therefore, being asked to write those introductions and read them in front of a microphone was not a chore; it was an honor.
Read the full essay @ DeanKoontz.com.
Great deal on Frankenstein digital comics and a whole bunch more
December 12, 2014
Humble Bundle is once again be teaming with Dynamite Entertainment. This go-round Dynamite will be offering such titles as Bob’s Burgers, The Twilight Zone, and the Django/Zorro crossover co-authored by Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner. In addition, this bundle includes Mark Waid, Darick Robertson, Garth Ennis, Gail Simone, Kevin Smith, Alex Ross, J. Michael Straczynski, David Mack, Howard Chaykin, Bill Willingham, Sean Phillips, Tim Seeley,Chuck Dixon, Andy Diggle, Duane Swierczynski,Joshua Hale Fialkov and many more.
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Fans who beat the average price will also receive 105 comics total with a combined value of over $380 including Living Corpse Omnibus, Doodle Jump #2, Dean Koontz: Frankenstein – Prodigal Son, Curse of the Wendigo, Monster War #1-4, Devilers #3-4,Twilight Zone #1-4, Uncanny #1, Alice Cooper #2, Mark Waid’s Green Hornet #4-6, Red Sonja Vol. 2, Pathfinder Vol. 2: Tooth and Claw, Kirby Genesis #0-8, Shaft #1, and Jim Butcher: Dresden War Cry #1-3.
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The Humble Dynamite MEGA Holidays Bundle runs for two weeks and ends Wednesday, December 24, 2014 at 11 a.m. Pacific time.
Get all the details @ Bleeding Cool.
Dean Koontz News – December 9, 2014
December 11, 2014
New Odd Thomas e-novella out today
December 9, 2014
Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to be Together Forever is now available for download on most major eReader platforms.
No, there is not a film version of Santa's Twin
December 5, 2014
According to this article, ‘“Santa’s Twin,” based on the children’s book by Dean Koontz, will be the featured film’ at an event tomorrow morning at the Sternberg Museum in Hays, KS tomorrow.
The existance of such a film was news to me so I contacted the group hosting the presentation and it was news to them too. They’re doing a Santa’s Twin story-time, not showing a film version.
Curl up with Odd & Stormy next Thursday
December 5, 2014
You won’t find it on a map: 11 fictional places that have appeared in multiple works
December 4, 2014
4. Santa Mira, California
Alien imposters. Invisible men. Malevolent mask-makers. The sleepy California community of Santa Mira has played host to all these horrors, and several others, since director Don Siegal and screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring first introduced it in 1956’s sci-fi classic Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. Modeled after the very real Mill Valley, California—where Jack Finney actually set his 1955 book The Body Snatchers, the film’s source material—Santa Mira is the platonic ideal of safe, clean, small-town America. That makes it, in turn, the perfect ground zero for a supernatural conspiracy, as the friendly facade provides an ideal smokescreen for insidious activities. No wonder other writers and filmmakers have appropriated the fictional locale; it’s appeared, or at least been mentioned, in no less than nine other sci-fi properties, many featuring “replaced” humans—the phantoms of Dean Koontz’s Phantoms, the robot henchmen of Halloween III: Season Of The Witch, the DNAliens of Ben 10: Alien Force. It’s a town fit only for pod people, or maybe for those willing to risk life, limb, and identity for a little breezy West Coast weather.
Read the full article @ A.V. Club.
Autographed copies of The City still available
December 4, 2014
It looks like Books-A-Million still has autographed copies of The City still available on their site for just $23.19. Grab one while you can. This edition has the same ISBN as the one that was offered by Barnes & Noble.
Have you seen the Innocence paperback commercial?
December 4, 2014
We hold each other hostage…
December 4, 2014
Publisher Interview: Richard Chizmar
November 29, 2014
The Black Cat Horror Blog sits down with the owner/founder of Cemetery Dance Publications, Richard Chizmar. Cemetery Dance Publications is a two-time World Fantasy Award winner, a four-time International Horror Critics Guild Award winner, and has been awarded/nominated for just about every other thing in existence when it comes to publishing. Do yourself a favor and, after the interview, sign-up for their magazine subscription–you won’t regret it!
TBC: It’s December 1988, and Cemetery Dance issue # 1 just hit the stands. Did you ever think Cemetery Dance would become what is it today? Or that you’d get to work with the top talent in horror–King, Koontz, Little, Ketchum, Matheson, etc.
Richard: Well, I knew I wanted to, and I knew I was willing to do whatever work was necessary to make it happen…but did I absolutely know it? Nope. But I definitely dreamed it and chased it with everything I had.
TBC: Which authors/books inspired your love for the horror genre?
Richard: Stephen King’s novella “The Monkey” is what made me want to be a writer. That led to all his novels. Also, the early Koontz paperbacks from Berkley. Before that, I read the usual horror comics. Loved THE TWILIGHT ZONE and any scary movie I could find on television. But Stephen King was definitely to blame for all this.
Read the full interview @ The Black Cat Horror Blog.