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Pendulous Wood

Ed Wood and Pendulum Books: a match made in Hell?

An oral history made up entirely of quotes from people who knew Mr. Wood

This isn’t the first book about Maila Nurmi, a.k.a. Vampira, but it is very likely the best

In which true crime author John Gilmore lays bare his early years as an actor, and his dealings with the soon-to-be-famous

The first and only biography of the late Richard Donner

John Waters is a filmmaker I’ve always found more entertaining than the films he makes

This is far from the ideal account of the life of the late Jan-Michael Vincent, but it is (as of 2021) the only one

Contra Mundum Press deserves credit for publishing this, a book whose potential readership is not what anyone would call broad

One of the more pleasantly surprising developments of 2020 was the inrush of attention paid to the work of Italy’s late Carmelo Bene

For those of us who came of age in the 1980s, the name Joel Schumacher, a film director who died on June 22 at age 80, has great meaning