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MATHESON, RICHARD CREATED BY
Bantam August 1, 1994 0-553-56610-5 / 9780553566109 Paperback Very Good
Horrific satire of Hollywood-based network TV, with the satire more biting than the horror. First-novelist Matheson (Scars, 1987) knows his target: So n of veteran screen/TV-writer Richard Matheson, he's written for Quincy, Hu nter, and Magnum PI. Matheson's TV-land is a cruel sea of Armani-suited sha rks, few of whom have sharper teeth than writer Alan White, who's come up w ith the perfect remedy for the networks' rating blues: Give the public the graphic sex and violence they crave. White pitches his concept for The Merc enary--a hardcore gore-porn drama about a human killing machine--to one net work, which bites. Months later, The Mercenary is the hottest TV show ever and White is on the A-list everywhere in a Tinseltown painted here in a gar ish light--a town where most ``actors couldn't've gotten work in claymation '' and a young network hotshot laughs like ``a satanic muppet.'' But then t hings go wrong--in both Matheson's plotting and White's life--as the noveli st draws on a worn Frankenstein variant recently used by Chet Williamson (i n Reign) and Stephen King (in The Dark Half): White's fictional creation, t he mercenary A.E. Barek, comes to life. It takes several ghastly murders an d maimings of those inimical to the series and its antihero (including the blinding of a harsh critic, and a rampage in a biker bar that bears an unha ppy resemblance to scenes in the films Terminator II and Near Dark) for Whi te to catch on fully. Weakened by his monster, who's sucking away his creat or's life energy in order to solidify his own self, a repentant White confr onts Barek in a dragged-out blood-brawl--one with an unexpectedly ironic en
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Matheson, Richard The Shrinking Man
Easton Press 1990 1st Edition Hardcover Fine
A highly collectible Easton Press Limited Edition, bound in brown leather w ith gold gilt pattern to front and back boards, and gilt print on spine; gi lt page edges; bound-in ribbon placemarker. Features a 12 page original int roduction by Harlan Ellison.
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