House of Dan Curtis: The Television Mysteries of the Dark Shadows Auteur
Westview, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Item #356240
ISBN: 1935271601
197 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy; no dust jacket. Inscribed by the author: 'Best wished to my good friend Randall from Jeff Thompson / 1 July 2010 / page 11.' Previous owner is listed with thanks from the author on that page.
The award-winning auteur producer-director Dan Curtis made television history with the epic miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the horror movies The Night Stalker and Trilogy of Terror, and the cult-classic Gothic serial Dark Shadows. Curtis also generated a large body of work in the mystery genre. This book provides an overview of Dan Curtis's 40-year-long career, as well as an examination of 15 mysteries and crime dramas that Curtis produced, co-wrote, and/or directed, including Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon; Melvin Purvis, G-Man; The Kansas City Massacre; The Great Ice Rip-Off; Come Die with Me; and the UFO miniseries Intruders. Also included is information about more than 15 Dan Curtis productions that were planned but never produced. House of Dan Curtis features 73 photographs and a foreword by John Karlen, the Emmy Award-winning actor who co-starred on Dark Shadows and in 13 other projects from the production house of Dan Curtis.
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