From Page to Silver Scream - 21 Novels That Became Horror and Sci-Fi Movie Favorites

<p>Every Baby Boomer Monster Kid has seen each of his movie favorites a dozen times perhaps <em>several</em> dozen times-but how many of the source novels has he read? Top classics such as <em>Dracula</em> and <em>Frankenstein</em> yes perhaps but what about the novels that inspired less illustrious thrillers such as <em>The Old Dark House</em> and <em>The Lodger</em>? The minor movies <em>The Maze</em> and <em>Dr. Renault's Secret</em>? Schlock like <em>The Navy vs. the Night Monsters</em> and <em>The Deadly Bees</em>?</p><p></p><p><em>From Page to Silver Scream</em> reduces each one of 21 novels to the length of a single chapter in hopes of inspiring readers to obtain copies of these works and book (pun intended) a cover-to-cover tour. The ways in which many of the movies deviate from the novels will surprise you.</p><p></p><p>In addition to the half-dozen titles cited above this book also features recaps of the stories that inspired:</p><p><em>Murder by the Clock</em></p><p><em>The Mask of Fu Manchu</em></p><p><em>The Ghoul</em></p><p><em>The Hound of the Baskervilles</em></p><p><em>The Dark Eyes of London</em></p><p><em>The Devil Commands</em></p><p><em>The Uninvited</em></p><p><em>Weird Woman</em> (and <em>Burn Witch Burn</em>)</p><p><em>Dragonwyck</em></p><p><em>Donovan's Brain</em></p><p><em>This Island Earth</em></p><p><em>Back from the Dead</em></p><p><em>The Incredible Shrinking ManThe 27</em><sup><em>th</em></sup><em> Day</em></p><p><em>The Day of the Triffids</em></p><p></p>