BUNDLE - Electric Dreamhouse [3 Collections of Monographs & Essays]

A chance to get three in our non-fiction series of Electric Dreamhoue collections of essays and monographs for just £14.99 plus P&P.

WE ARE THE MARTIANS: The Legacy of Nigel KLneale

Thomas Nigel Kneale may not be a household name, but those who know him revere him. In the UK, there’s not a single TV drama dealing in ‘Speculative’ ideas that does not owe Nigerl Kneale a debt; directly, or by the ripples of influence that preceded them…Now the authors, critics and screenwriters who have been moved and influenced by his work, come together to celebrate his life, his work, and his extraordinary legacy in: WE ARE THE MARTIANS: The Legacy Of Nigel Kneale.

• Foreword - Mark Gatiss
• Introduction - Neil Snowdon
• King Of Hauntology - Mark Chadbourn
• The Literary Kneale - Tim Lucas
• The Quatermass Conception - Stephen Bissette
• A Conversation With Judith Kerr - Neil Snowdon
• On Nigel Kneale - Ramsey Campbell
• The Quatermass Legacy: A Personal Reflection On Kneale And His Influence - David Pirie
• Creeping Unknown Pt1: Wuthering Heights, The Crunch, Nineteen Eighty Four - Kim Newman
• Phenomena Badly Observed, And Wrongly Explained: Quatermass, The Pit, And Me - John Llewellyn Probert
• Under The Influence - Maura McHugh
• A Conversation With Joe Dante - Neil Snowdon
• Brief Encounter - Stephen Laws
• Adaptation And Anger, Or The Nigel Kneale-John Osbourne Synthesis - Richard Harland Smith
• ‘The Promised End’ Nigel Kneale’s Lost Masterpiece from 1963: The Road - Jonathan Rigby
• A Conversation With Mark Gatiss - Neil Snowdon
• Cool The Audience, Cool The World: Media, Mind Control & The Modern Family - Kier-La Janisse
• Pushing The Door He Unlocked: Ghostwatch And The Stone Tape - Stephen Volk
• Beasts: An Overview - Mark Morris
• It Would Have Been Suckled, You Know’: Beasts And ‘Baby’ An Appreciation - Jeremy Dyson
• Quatermass: Rebirth & Ressurection – Jez Winship
• The Quatermass Conclusion: An Interview With Nigel Kneale - David Sutton.
• Creeping Unknown Pt2: Kinvig – Kim Newman
• In Pursuit Of Unhappy Endings: Chris Burt & Herbert Wise on The Woman In Black - Tony Earnshaw
• Where’s Kneale When You Need Him- Thana Niveau
• Creeping Unknown Pt3:​​​​​​​ Sharpe's Gold & Kavanagh QC - Kim Newman
• On Wishing For A Nigel Kneale Childhood - Lynda E. Rucker

COFFINMAKER'S BLUES by Stephen Volk

Collected writings on terror by one of the genres most gifted exponents COFFINMAKER'S BLUES is: 

“An educational joy to read, this man who knows his stuff, knows how to write and knows how to put together a well-thought-out, intelligent and incendiary article” (Ginger Nuts of Horror)
“Blisteringly powerful...Volk draws on a dizzying number of references and shows admirable conceptual depth and density as well as a muscular and evocative style” (SF Signal)
"Amusingly scathing...Frank, honest yet ultimately hopeful and considered” (Dread Central)
“An insider’s opinion...Volk certainly knows what he is talking about, with a career in the industry that has spanned two decades” (Rue Morgue Magazine)
“A masterclass for horror writers and screenwriters. Definitely should be shared far and wide” (Charles Prepolec, editor, Gaslight Grotesque, Gaslight Gothic, Beyond Rue Morgue)
 

SIX STOOGES AND COUNTING by Ramsey Campbell

When Ramsey Campbell first encountered the Three Stooges, he was only a bemused spectator. Now he’s an admirer, and this personal appreciation celebrates the reasons. Few Hollywood comedy teams have endured like the Stooges, either in length of career or in continuing to entertain. One secret of their longevity was how their line-up often changed. Moe and Larry were the constant personnel, supported over the decades by Shemp and Curly and a trinity of Joes, one of them uncredited.

In Six Stooges and Counting Campbell argues that the impermanence of identity is a frequent theme of their films, one aspect of the anarchy they incarnate. Once he believed there was little to their comedy but knockabout, and in this book he demonstrates how wrong he was. You’ll learn of their influence on Kubrick and Tarantino, and may it be present in Fassbinder’s films and Hong Kong action movies as well? You’ll find them playing Shakespeare and Greek tragedy, and figuring in Beckett and Bram Stoker. To quote Bridget Fonda: “I think that anybody who doesn’t like the Three Stooges just never really watched.” Ramsey Campbell looked at them afresh and hopes this book will make the reader do that too.