Signed Book - CORMAN/POE: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964

CORMAN/POE: Interviews and Essays Exploring the Making of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Films, 1960-1964 explores a classic film series that stands among the most fascinating and enduring of all time.

The book is a collection of conversations with Corman conducted by noted filmmaker and magazine editor Chris Alexander, bookended by in-depth critical analysis of each of the "Poe" pictures.

Corman's "Poe Cycle" officially consists of eight movies, starting with 1960's THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER then continuing with 1961's THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, 1962's PREMATURE BURIAL and TALES OF TERROR, 1963's THE HAUNTED PALACE and THE RAVEN and 1964's MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH and THE TOMB OF LIGEIA. Most of these pictures starred horror icon Vincent Price and were written (and "freely adapted") by the likes of Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont and Robert Towne. Popular in their time as escapist horror fare, the films have since gone on to be recognized as essential works of cinema.

CORMAN/POE is illustrated with dozens of lush photographs and stills, some of which have never been published before, as well as previously unpublished documents direct from the American International Pictures vaults.