It Came From ...The Stories and Novels Behind Classic Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Films

It Came From ...The Stories and Novels Behind Classic Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Films
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ISBN-13 : 9781644300916
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Book Synopsis It Came From ...The Stories and Novels Behind Classic Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Films by : Jim Nemeth

Download or read book It Came From ...The Stories and Novels Behind Classic Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Films written by Jim Nemeth and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many times have you said, the book was better? And how many times was that actually true? The cinema of the fantastic has benefitted from literary adaptations on a level unlike any other genre. With such brilliant authors as Mary Shelley, Robert Bloch, Pierre Boulle, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert Louis Stevenson to choose from, it's no surprise that fantastic film shares its pedigree with literary fiction. But do films never live up to their literary inspirations? Or are some movies just ... better than the books that inspired them? Join genre critics Jim Nemeth and Bob Madison for a rule-busting examination of 21 classic - and not so classic - horror, fantasy and science fiction films, and the classic - and not so classic - books that inspired them. It Came From...The Stories and Novels Behind Classic Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Films will delight legions of movie buffs along with devoted readers of cherished fantastic fiction.


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