Michael H. Price's acclaimed FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of film-history books backtracks to the middle 1940s for a thorough revision and expansion of FORGOTTEN HORRORS VOL. 3. Additional chapters, an entirely new set of illustrations, and fresh insights across the board make for a vivid account of how the independent horror movies dealt with World War II and its immediate aftermath.

This Rondo Awards-nominated study describes how Richard Connell's famous story of 1924, "The Most Dangerous Game," has persisted into the New Century as an indelible influence. Michael H. Price and the late George E. Turner began tracing that influence as early as the 1960s, while interviewing the filmmakers responsible for the first adaptation, 1932's THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME. The research has continued apace, and it all comes together in THE HOUNDS OF ZAROFF. The book compiles kindred films, remakes, knockoffs, ripoffs, and toss-offs into a 250-page survey -- from the original film, through...

The publication in 1980 of "Forgotten Horrors: Early Talkie Chillers from Poverty Row" launched a new direction in film scholarship by subjecting the weirder movies of Old Hollywood's low-rent district to the scholarly and critical attention customarily reserved for acknowledged classics from the big studios. Authors George E. Turner and Michael H. Price staked out a distinctive territory while rediscovering little-seen favorites and identifying early work from important stars-to-be and emerging major directors. "We intended the title, 'Forgotten Horrors, ' to be a challenge-a self-denying...

Elithe Hamilton Kirkland, a pioneering journalist-turned-novelist, spent most of the 20th century chronicling the history and legends of Texas in stories, poems, songs, and dramatic presentations. Her final major work is PRECIOUS MEMORIES, produced in 1987 with the Salt Lick Foundation, a traditional-country string band from East Texas. The episodes of PRECIOUS MEMORIES range from the tale of Old Rip, the fabled horned lizard from Eastland County, to the hardships of Texas' society of cedar-choppers, to tales of hoboes, cotton farmers, backwoods dogs, and the oil boom of the 1920s. The revue...

Michael H. Price and Mark Evan Walker apply some wrenching twists to the pulp-fiction tradition in DARK BORDERLANDS, an anthology of unnerving short stories in the tradition of August Derleth's celebrated Arkham House collections. The tales prowl the gritty fringes of carnival freak shows, small-town drive-in theatres, haunted caverns and mansions, creepy passageways, and the varieties of madness that come to flower in the most unexpected places. Each story resonates with the tough talk of the benighted Southland, rendered authentic by the authors' own Southern heritage and experiences....

From a childhood spent among such key roots-music figures as Bob Wills and Big Joe Turner, and an extended dual career as a musician and journalist, Michael H. Price has forged this frenzied chronicle of life among the denizens of the vanishing borderlands of Texas' indigenous music scene over the past half-century. Says RECORD COLLECTOR magazine: "Evocative and compelling." Adds BLUES & RHYTHM magazine: "A Garrison Keillor of rock and roll... much to enjoy." And from NO DEPRESSION magazine: "A bizarre artifact ... A definitive history of Fort Worth's fabled Bluebird Nite Club, ... and...

The revised and expanded sequel to Michael H. Price and George E. Turner's groundbreaking "Forgotten Horrors: The Original Volume--Except More So" covers the development of the independent movie studios' approach to horror, weird mystery, and science fiction during a period of banishment for the genre by the British and European boards of censorship. "The notorious Horror Ban of the late 1930s accounted for some dark days in Hollywood," says lead author Mike Price. "The British Board of Censors had been trying its level best since the late silent-era years to keep the creepier fare out of...

The acclaimed Forgotten Horrors series of movie-genre history and criticism lurches into the turning-point stretch of 1949-1954. This 300-plus-page study of the independent studios' forays into horror, S-F, film noir -- and some unclassifiable oddities -- tackles the most conflicted and paranoid period of American cultural history in terms of such breakthrough pictures as these: Mikel Conrad's "The Flying Saucer," the oddly matched set of George Pal's "Destination Moon" and Kurt Neumann's "Rocketship X-M," Edgar G. Ulmer's "The Man from Planet X," Ivan Tors' "Office of Scientific...

Michael H. Price's FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of movie encyclopedias forges on through the 1940s with this expanded fourth volume -- amended and updated from the original edition. New showcase chapter unearths significant detail on the most elusive exploitation film of the postwar years, Dwain Esper's CURSE OF THE UBANGI, with significant assistance from the Web-based Classic Horror Film Board. The foreshadowings of the Atom Age of the 1950s run thick and deep, and so do the crossovers among horror films, science-fiction films, and film noir-styled crime melodramas.