Visions of Death: Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts, Volume One [Signed, Lettered]

Author: Matheson, Richard and Roger Corman
Title: Visions of Death: Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe Scripts, Volume One [Signed, Lettered]
Publication: Colorado Springs, CO: Gauntlet Press, 2007
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hardcover. Introduction by film director Roger Corman, who helmed the production of a cycle of Poe films based on scripts written by Matheson. This volume reprints Matheson's scripts for the film House of User (originally titled The Fall of the House of Usher) and The Pit and the Pendulum. The screenplays are accompanied by essays on the making of the films by Richard French.

This is one of 52 lettered copies signed by Matheson, Corman, and director Joe Dante, who contributes an afterword. Dante worked on the films with Corman at the beginning of his career.

420 pages. Fine / Fine.

First edition (first printing). This is copy FF of 52 signed copies. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and near fine traycase that is slightly dented along the leading edge on the back.

Seller ID: 362759

Subject: Books into Film, Film, Horror, SF / SCIENCE FICTION



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