Horror And Mystery Photoplay Editions And Magazine Fictionizations, Volume Ii hardback

Photoplay Editions Were Movie Tiein Books That Reprinted The Novels On Which Films Were Based, Illustrated With Photos From The Movies.  Sometimes The Novels Were Newlycreated, Based On Scripts Of The Films, With Publication Timed To Correspond With The Films? Release.  Comparable Fictionizations Of Contemporary Movies Frequently Appeared In Shortstory Form Within Many Popular Movie Magazines.  Volume IOf This Catalog Listed Over Such Tiein Stories Connected To Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction, And Related Genre Films.  The Present Volume Updates That List With Hundreds Of Additional EntriesIn His Introduction The Author Also Provides ADetailed Analysis Of Some Of The Individual Works, Showing How Many Of The Published Stories, Based On Advance Copies Of The Film Scripts, Contain Scenes Deleted From The Release Prints.  As He Did With The Book Volumes In Volume I, Here In Volume Ii He Also Provides AFascinating Analysis Of The Film Magazines In Their Larger Context As Cultural Artifacts Of Bygone ErasThe Book Concludes With AReprint Of APreviously Unknown Short Story Version Of The Lost Lon Chaney Film, ABlind Bargain  Thomas Mann Is An Independent Scholar Living In Washington, D.c., Where He Spent Over Three Decades As AGeneral Reference Librarian In The Main Reading Room Of The Library Of Congress.  He Is The Author Of The Oxford Guide To Library Research oxford University Press, .
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