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It Came from Horrorwood
Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition
Tom Weaver

ISBN 978-0-7864-2069-8
88 photos, filmography, notes, index
396pp. softcover 2004 [1996]

Description
Tom Weaver’s classic fifth volume of interviews is now back in print. Originally published as It Came from Weaver Five in 1996, this collection goes behind the scenes with 20 of the most talkative people of Hollywood’s horror, science fiction and serial films of the 1930s through 1960s.

Delores Fuller loaned Ed Wood her angora sweater, but didn’t fully realize he was a transvestite until Glen or Glenda was released. Tom Hennesy played the title role in Clint Eastwood’s first movie--Revenge of the Creature. The interviewees include Fuller, Hennesy, Junior Coghlan, Charlotte Austin, Les Baxter, John Clifford, Mara Corday, Kathleen Crowley, Michael Fox, Anne Gwynne, Linda Harrison, Michael Pate, Gil Perkins, Walter Reed, Joseph F. Robertson, Aubrey Schenck, Sam Sherman, Gloria Stuart, Gregory Walcott and Robert Wise. Also included is "A Salute to Ed Wood," with illustrations by Drew Friedman.

About the Author
Tom Weaver lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and has been interviewing moviemakers since the early 1980s. The New York Times called him one of the leading scholars in the horror field and USA Today has described him as the king of the monster hunters. Classic Images called him "the best interviewer we have today." He is a frequent contributor to numerous film magazines including Starlog, Fangoria, Monsters from the Vault and Video Watchdog, and he has been featured in the prestigious Best American Movie Writing. A frequent DVD audio commentator, he is the author of numerous reference and other nonfiction books about American popular culture, including Universal Horrors: The Studio’s Classic Fims, 1931-1946.

Other Book(s) by Tom Weaver Available from McFarland:

Poverty Row HORRORS!

I Was a Monster Movie Maker

Double Feature Creature Attack

Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks

Earth vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers

Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers

Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes

Universal Horrors

Eye on Science Fiction

John Carradine

I Talked with a Zombie

Science Fiction Confidential

A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde



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