http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/02/13/the-bookworm-returns/ MovieMorlocks.com is the official blog for Turner Classic Movies (TCM). No topic is too obscure or niche to be excluded from our film discussions. And we welcome your comments on our blogs and bloggers. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/02/13/the-bookworm-returns/#comment-8908 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:42:20 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/02/13/the-bookworm-returns/#comment-8908 [...] what a reflection it was of the boy I had been and the adult I am now.  In The Book Worm Turns and The Book Worm Returns, I waxed nostalgic about being the only kid on my block – hell, probably in my whole town [...]

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/02/13/the-bookworm-returns/#comment-5745 Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:48:25 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/02/13/the-bookworm-returns/#comment-5745 I also have this book, which I bought with pocket money at Thorpes book shop at the top of Guildford High St.
A few years back Gifford co curated a film season here at the Museum of London and I got him to sign it, he didn’t just stop there however, he drew a Frankenstein monster underneath!.
This book was also a great inspiration to me, I poured over the illustrations for many hours…..thought he was always a bit scathing about Hammer though.
The illustration on the front cover sold it for me though what a good example of a front cover selling a book. Don’t know if you realised that the artwork was by Chantell who did a lot of the Hammer artwork, he was the uncle of a friend of mine at school.

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/02/13/the-bookworm-returns/#comment-2207 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:43:57 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/02/13/the-bookworm-returns/#comment-2207 I have fond memories of reading the Denis Gifford book A Pictorial History of Horror Movies back in 1975, as a teenager. I loved the book to bits! Alanwww.draculalives.co.ukwww.trueghoststories.co.uk 

]]> http://moviemorlocks.com/2007/02/13/the-bookworm-returns/#comment-2208 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:05:54 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/2007/02/13/the-bookworm-returns/#comment-2208 RHS,The Gifford book is something of a treasure box, isn't it? My parents gave that to me as a Christmas present the year it came out, after having spotted me flipping through it wide-eyed at a Coles Books outlet in the original Guildford Mall.  Probably more than any other book of the era it was responsible for stoking my own love affair with the fantastic & the bizarre.At my local library pickings for books on the genre were slim, but I did find the Carlos Clarens book as well as Don Glut's "The Frankenstein Legend" and I believe one of the Jeff Rovin books.  Thankfully I had an Uncle donate to me his copy of Ed Naha's "Horrors From Screen To Scream", and my sister gave me Alan Frank's "Horror Films" one Christmas.  The only other one of my childhood that really stood out was "Cinema of the Fantastic", and I'm sorry but the names of the authors escape me at the moment.Despite whatever we get out of books today it's hard to replicate that sense of discovery, awe and joy we felt when all of this was so new.

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