HORROR & MYSTERY PHOTOPLAY EDITIONS AND MAGAZINE FICTIONIZATIONS, VOLUME II (SOFTCOVER EDITION) by Thomas Mann
HORROR & MYSTERY PHOTOPLAY EDITIONS AND MAGAZINE FICTIONIZATIONS, VOLUME II (SOFTCOVER) ISBN 9781629330716 Photoplay editions were novels that were based on new movies and released as a promotional tie-in with the movie’s release. They were often illustrated with photos from the movies. First published around 1912, they were in widest circulation during the 1920s and 1930s, and continue to be written and released today. Comparable short story versions frequently appeared in popular movie magazines, In Thomas Mann’s second volume, hundreds of additional Photoplay editions and short stories of films are analyzed. Discover how many Photoplay editions were based on advance copies of scripts and contain scenes that were later deleted. As cultural artifacts of bygone eras, novels and short stories based on films that are now lost are often the only surviving record. For example, the previously unknown short story version of Lon Chaney’s lost film, A Blind Bargain (1923) is reprinted here for the first time. Listed are multiple story versions of films that featured Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Sr. and Lon Chaney Jr, and Peter Lorre, and supporting players from obscure mysteries featuring Robert Armstrong, Lionel Atwill, Ricardo Cortez, Frances Drake, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, J. Carroll Naish, Marjorie Williams, George Zucco, and many others. Several Alfred Hitchcock book editions are also cataloged. Other film book editions chronicled include: The Adventures of Kathlyn Bride of Frankenstein The Creature from the Black Lagoon Day of the Triffids Doctor X Flash Gordon The Ghost Breakers Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Invisible Man It Came from Outer Space King Kong and Son of Kong Laura The Legend of Hell House London After Midnight The Lost World The Mask of Fu Manchu Meet Nero Wolfe Mighty Joe Young Murders in the Rue Morgue North by Northwest Reptilicus She Things to Come The Verdict Vertigo White Zombie The Wolf Man Multiple stories that tie in to a variety of screen sleuths are also listed: Arsene Lupin, Bulldog Drummond, Charlie Chan, The Falcon, Lone Wolf, Hildegarde Withers, Nancy Drew, Nick Carter, Perry Mason, Philo Vance, The Saint, The Thin Man, Torchy Blane, and Mr. Wong. Thomas Mann is an independent scholar living in Washington, D.C., where he spent over three decades as a general 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, 2015).