The Sweetest Thing, a comedy that grabbed me when I caught it on TV and would not let me turn it off and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which may still be Spielberg’s most powerful, impactful film-Ray Bradbury called it a religious film-but people tend to ignore it. I decided to just have fun with it, wrote a couple of friends into it, and I wrote the action scenes by channeling Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. The final book in a D&D series that I knew absolutely nothing about. Spelljammer: The Ultimate Helm (under the pseudonym of Russ T. The paperback cover of Jaws is a close second.Įxorcist, Alien, Blazing Saddles, M*A*S*H and Animal House.
I have fond memories of the 1976 embossed, all black paperback cover of ‘Salem’s Lot, with a single drop of red blood. I also believe that The Shining by Kubrick is the last truly great horror film. It was either The Frozen Dead or Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster, in the Langley Theatre in Hampton, VA, during a spook show where a guy in a monster suit carried off a young woman in a bad, blonde wig. THE FIRST HORROR FILM I REMEMBER WATCHING Palmer, critically acclaimed suspense author of Saving Meaghan and The New HusbandĪll the Marilyn Ross Dark Shadows novels (well, the ones with Barnabas Collins) and then Dracula and The Exorcist, which I remember reading simultaneously. Can't wait to get my hands on Prey No More to see where this endlessly exciting story takes me next!” -D.J. "Careful what you wish for, especially from a nefarious shadow organization, in this gripping start to Lee Matthew Goldberg's fast-paced, highly-compelling, buzz-worthy new series. The first book in the Desire Card series, Immoral Origins follows those indebted to this sinister organization-where the ultimate price is the cost of one’s soul. But as he dives deeper in with the Card, begins falling love with Marilyn, and sees the money rolling in, clients’ wishes start becoming more and more suspect-some leading to murder. At a Halloween party downtown, he meets a woman with a Marilyn Monroe mask who works for an organization called The Desire Card-an underground operation promising its exclusive clients “Any Wish Fulfilled for the Right Price.”Īs Jake becomes taken with its leader, a pseudo father and sociopath at heart, he starts stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. He’s a petty thief selling hot coats with his buddy Maggs to make ends meet and help his sick kid brother.
As are mobsters, gritty streets, needle parks and graffiti-stained subways. It’s 1978 in New York City, and disco is prominent.
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