1 MIDNIGHT MARQUEE 2018/19 CATALOG The Perfect GIFTS for Your Favorite Movie Buff! Vol. 1 NEW COVER WE KNOW MOVIES! Midnight Marquee Press • 9721 Britinay Lane, Baltimore, MD 21234 2 A Letter from Gary and Sue Svehla of Midnight Marquee Press We would like to apologize to our many long time customers as well as to our many new ones for the lateness of this catalog and our slowness in get- ting your orders out. It’s been a rough several years as Sue has been facing medical challenges, but we have finally found a diagnosis and she is on a healing path. Of course we will try to get your orders out quickly, but we’re getting old and slow (not to mention forgetful) so— if you need your books quickly, please order them from AMAZON.com or OLDIES.com. Most of our books are now being converted to e-books by Bear Manor Media, so you can order those from Amazon.com. We thank you for your patience, your business and your friendship through the years. Gary and Sue Svehla Table of Contents 3 New Titles from MMP Payment: We accept 5 Brit Horrors all major credit cards, 12 Italian Horror checks, money orders 15 Biographies and Autobios and PayPal. 19 Musical Bios 20 MidMar’s Actors Series Shipping: We try to 21 Histories of Horror Films ship within 7 work- ing days, but it’s just the two of us and we’re 25 Histories of Sci-Fi Films getting old and slow. 26 Hooray for Hollywood— other genres If you need your order fast, PLEASE 28 Exploitation Horrors order from Amazon.com or Oldies.com Most books will arrive from Createspace— 29 Forgotten Horrors & DVDs, mags, bookplates, etc. Guilty Pleasures will ship from MMP 30 Serials 31 Westerns Midnight Marquee Press, Inc. 32 A-Z Horror/Sci-Fi 9721 Britinay Lane, Baltimore, MD 21234 Film Guides Phone: 410-665-1198 23 Fiction/Misc. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST, M-F and 35 MidMar Magazines 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday EST www.midmar.com • [email protected] Midnight Marquee Press • www.midmar.com • 410-665-1198 • [email protected] BIOS (NEW Titles) 3 The Life and Death of COLIN CLIVE “ONE MAN CRAZY!” Gregory William Mank $30.00, SALE $19! The eagerly awaited bio from Gregory William Mank is sure to be a crowd pleaser as Mank delves into the rise and fall of one of the maddest doctors of them all, the original Dr. Franken- stein—Colin Clive. FORGOTTEN FACES OF FANTASTIC FILMS James T. Coughlin, 8 1/2 x11, paperback 257 pages, rare photos Price $25, SALE PRICE $18! The faces are vivid, for many of us who are long-time disciples of the Golden Age of Horror. They were a strange and striking repertory, playing in Hollywood’s nether world horror arena. Each and every one was a seasoned professional, but his or her name was usually far below the billing of the stars. Coughlin tells the fascinating stories of New COVER characters such as E.E. Clive, Edward Van Sloan, Ernest Thesinger, Halliwell Hobbes, Noble Johnson, Charles Hurst, and many other. Claudia Jennings: A Biography Eric J. Karell, 6x9, $25.00, SALE $18! Karell examines the life and career of Jennings who, during the 1970s, was known as “The Queen of B Movies.” Jennings turned a Playboy mag photo into genre fame in films such as Unholy Rollers, Truck Stop Women, ’Gator Bait, Deathsport, and other filmsMidnight and MarqueeTV roles, Press before • 9721dying Britinay tragically Lane, in Baltimore,1979. MD 21234 4 New Titles MIDNIGHT MARQUEE’S 1930s HORROR MOVIE SCRAPBOOK VOL. 1 Edited by Gary J. and Susan Svehla 8 1/2 X 11, Price $25, SALE PRICE $19! Classic horror movie fans are familiar with the classic movie posters and images from the 1930s Golden Age of Horror, but this fascinating book of graphics includes articles, images and rare photos that will be appreciated New COVER and enjoyed by any movie fan. NEW TITLE MIDNIGHT MARQUEE’S 1930S HORROR MOVIE SCRAPBOOK VOL. 2 Edited by Susan Svehla 8 1/2 X 11, Price $25, SALE PRICE $19! We kept finding more movies to add to the 1930s, so we decided to do a Vol. 2 before we tackle the 1940s in 2019! We spent months finding newspaper ads, clippings and photos of more classic (and some not so classic) titles. Includes titles such as Cat and the Canary, The Ghoul, The Gorilla, Invisible Ray, Mad Love, Mark of the Vampire, The Raven, The Return of Dr. X, Walking Dead, Werewolf of London and Midnightmany other Marquee genre titles!Press • www.midmar.com • 410-665-1198 • [email protected] 5 BRIT HORRORS (NEW TITLE) RALPH BATES A BIOGRAPHY Christopher Gullo 6x9, 188 pages Price $25 SALE PRICE $18 Written with the blessing of Bates’ wife Virginia and his two children, Ralph Bates: A Biog- raphy delves deep into the actor’s life from childhood and his beginning interest in theater at school, to his tenure at Hammer Film Productions as one of its rising stars, to his triumphs in television with lead roles in Poldark and Dear John. This biography features 165 photos, including many never-before-seen family photos. Besides his well-known turns as the dark and brooding villain, readers will also learn about his outside love of cricket and his desire to perform comedy, which came to fruition during his multiple tours with the production of Run for Your Wife! In addition to quotes from Bates from various interviews, over 70 original author-acquired contributions from family, friends and coworkers were gathered to give the most complete look at the life of a much missed actor, husband, father and friend to many. The author is donating all personal proceeds from sales of this book to the Ralph Bates Pan- creatic Cancer Research Fund, which was created to honor Bates, who passed away from the disease in 1991. Midnight Marquee Press • 9721 Britinay Lane, Baltimore, MD 21234 6 BRIT HORRORS MIDNIGHT MARQUEE STUDIO SERIES: HAMMER THE AMICUS ANTHOLOGY Paperback, 6x9, 274 pages, $25, SALE $15 6x9, 240 pages, $25, SALE PRICE $18 With the re-emergence of Hammer we wanted to look back at In 1965, the newly-formed Amicus Productions burst onto our old faves and wallow in fond memories. Here we offer a se- the British fantasy scene with Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors, ries of chapters, by the best genre writers, on our favorite Ham- an anthology film featuring five tales of suspense and the mers. Chapters include: Hammer Films and the Resurrection of supernatural. The success of Dr. Terror encouraged the Dracula; Peter Cushing, Terence Fisher and Hammer’s Vam- partners to produce more of the same and in the years that pire; Christopher Lee, Count Dracula and Hammer Films: Peter followed, Torture Garden, The House That Dripped Blood, Cushing and Van Helsing; The Dracula Films with No Dracula!; Tales From the Crypt and others forever associated the Hammer’s Hunt For A New Vein of Vampire Film; Three Semi- Classics from the 1970s; Why the 1970s Bite; Let Me In: The Re- name of Amicus with the anthology horror film.The Amicus turn of Hammer; and the Spirit of Val Lewton; Evolving Worlds Anthology is an in-depth look at a body of films which were of Hammer’s Baron Frankenstein; X—The Unknown;Val Guest unique in the annals of fantasy cinema and featured not only and Nigel Kneale: Hammer’s Dynamic Duo; Surviving the Lost the talents of horror icons Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee Worlds of Hammer; The Hammer Factory; Hammer Films, Cor- but those of dozens of the most famous names on the British man Style; The Abominable Snowman; The Curse of the Were- screen in the 1960s and ’70s. wolf; The Devil Rides Out; Christopher Lee Is The Mummy; Peter Cushing Is Kharismatic; Hammer Films Unearth The Mummy; The Phantom of the Opera; Paranormic and Night- mare; To the Devil… a Daughter; Hammer Declares War; Night Creatures YOU’RE NOT OLD ENOUGH SON Barry Atkinson, paperback, 6x9, $25, SALE $15 Atkinson chron- icles his childhood adventures as an underage Brit horror film fanatic, who, along with his best chums, schemed to sneak into X-rated horror films such as Them!, Tarantula, Rodan, Dracula, Atom Age Vampire. Boomer horror film fans longing for those filmic glory days of yesteryear won’t want to miss this heartfelt tribute and follow up. YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH SON: Further Irreverent Recollections of the Hor- ror/Science Fiction/Fantasy Scene in the British Cinema, 1971-2005. Barry Atkinson, 6x9, $25, SALE $15 Another look at more modern horror films, well, if you consider 1970s modern, but this time from one of the origi- nal monster kids who watches all new hor- ror films rather than refusing to watch any- thing made after 1965 (and you know who you are!). Check it out and you may find a whole slew of new must see movies! TUESDAY’S CHILD: IMOGEN HASSALL Dan Leissner; paperback, 6x9, $25, SALE $15 This loving tribute to ’60s English media fave Imogen Hassall is a story of the human tragedy of a warm and caring but broken woman whose small film career and party-girl media celebrity led to her ultimate downfall. Midnight Marquee Press • www.midmar.com • 410-665-1198 • [email protected] BRIT HORRORS 7 THE AMICUS ANTHOLOGY 6x9, 240 pages, $25, SALE PRICE $18 In 1965, the newly-formed Amicus Productions burst onto the British fantasy scene with Dr.