I am making my second horror book now that I am about half way through with my history Jack Hill’s exploitation style cinema. The Jack Hill book was very informative and gave he in an insight that I did not have before into the world of low budget film making and in particular with working with Roger Corman. I would definitely like to find the Roger Corman auto-biography How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime in PDF format. Well my next hmemade book project is a hefty one at 313 pages and yet worth it. It is A History of Horrors: The Rise and Fall of the House of Hammer. I can’t wait to get it bound up and sit back and read through it and then provide some articles on what I learn. I may have to do some posts that add some new information to some of the many Hammer posts I have already done here. I also have collected almost every Hammer film ever made here and have them scattered about on several DVD discs. I just enjoy those films so much and have seen many of them several times. Some I have yet to actually see – such as The Stranglers of Bombay and Maniac – and look forward to some viewing as soon as I get through the movies I am watching now. I should say while I am the topic of movies I am watching that I have watched quite a few Vincent Price films in the last few months and have yet to write one blasted post on the man or his films. I will have to correct that situation soon. So in the mean time I lifted some images from the PDF of A History of Horrors and will share those with you. I left the text to the images so the context can be explained. I am sure most of these have never been seen online before. Most show behind the scenes activities or dinner parties for the Hammer bigwigs.

UPDATE: Got the book made today and thought I would post the cover to it. Again, like the Jack Hill book, it cost me about .50 to print as we used our own paper and printer to print it out. This is a great book and of course it would nice to own the real thing, but that is not going to happen here in China. Here are some scans of the covers. I had to make a cover in Word Doc for the fibery cover the printing places use and then put a color cover on the inside. The quality is pretty good.

IMAGES FROM A HISTORY OF HORRORS

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