What The Experts Say |
| “A Field Guide to Monsters is a ‘must read’ book for horror fans and filmgoers in general.” | |
--Joe Franklin, Radio and TV Host |
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| “A Field Guide to Monsters is my kind of book...great reading in bed late at night.” | |
--Zacherley, “The Cool Ghoul’, TV Horror Show Host |
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| “A great catalogue of creepy creatures and well-known monsters that educates readers.” | |
--The Associated Press |
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| “Field Guide...conjures up memories of ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland’...an amusing book for nostalgists and horror flick fans.” | |
--Pulp and Dagger Magazine |
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| “A lighthearted guide to film monsters...good breezy read for hardcover film buffs.” | |
--Brad Balfour, Film Festival Today Magazine |
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| “A ‘cruelly’ fun and entertaining guide to what every ghoul should know. I just wish I’d read this book before I started dating!” | |
--Elvira, Mistress of the Night, TV Host and Actress |
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| “A Field Guide to Monsters is a comprehensive and interesting compilation of monsters.” | |
--Bela Lugosi Jr., Esq. |
| “I read this on the flight home and it's a shame my father couldn't see this wonderful homage to the genre. Thank you so much!!” | |
--Sarah Karloff |
| “A Field Guide to Monsters is a fine late-night companion” | |
--Richard Valley - Scarlet Street Magazine |
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This fun spoof of field guides compiles the world's scariest and most popular monsters. Makes the perfect, quirky gift for monster-movie aficionados everywhere.
Unearthed from the dankest, darkest corners of human society comes this valuable guide to identifying the world’s most (in)famous creatures, who also star in many of our most beloved films. This gruesomely illustrated book is filled with fun monster facts, including how big monsters can grow, where they live, and what they feed on. Should you happen to be lost in a foggy marsh one night, you can quickly flip through A Field Guide to Monsters; if the moon is bright enough, you can read up on their calls, their migration habits, and, most importantly, how to protect yourself against them-or, in extreme circumstances, kill them!
Great for film buffs, foreign travelers, or serious vampire hunters. 100 dramatic photographs of the world's scariest monsters. A spoof on field guides that takes Movie Monsters very seriously.
About the Authors
Dave Elliot has worked in every aspect of comic and magazine publishing and was formerly the humor editor of Penthouse magazine. He operates a small boutique publishing company, Atomeka Press, with his partners Garry Leach and Ross Richie.
Film columnist and writer C.J. Henderson lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, fashion designer Grace Tin Lo, and their daughter, Erica. His awards include Best Short Fiction of 1997 from the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design.
Film reviewer and screenwriter R. Allen Leider lives in Manhattan with his wife Barbara, a professional photographer. He wrote the original story and screenplay for The Oracle (1985), hosted his own radio show Cinemascene on WWFM, for five years and has been an editor for The Monster Times, Show, Celebrity, Elite and other magazines, since 1970.
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