Edited by Mark Dawidziak. Published by Gauntlet Press.
Our high profile Matheson
release of the year, Bloodlines: Richard Matheson's Dracula, I Am
Legend, and
Other Vampire Stories, is an omnibus collection of Matheson's
vampire tales
and scripts.
Edited by Mark Dawidziak (The
Kolchak Scripts), the book will contain both the novel and
screenplay for
I Am Legend (there has never been a Lettered edition of the book).
Matheson's script was purchased by Hammer Films in the U.K. in the
sixties, but
the British Censor Board called for two pages or revisions due to
"gruesomeness", which Matheson would not make. We'll reprint the letter
with the
script. This is Matheson's vision of his classic novel, which is far
better than
the two films that don't come close to doing justice to the book.
Matheson was also the first to
write a Dracula script based on the Bram Stoker novel. Filmed in
1974 for television by the late Dan
Curtis (starring Jack Palance), we have both Matheson's screen treatment and script. This is another
oversized 8 ½ x 11 book with the Dracula script presented as
Matheson
typed it, with many handwritten corrections and changes.
We will have loads of appreciations that will appear in
both editions.
Those writing the appreciations will sign
only
the Lettered edition, which are Ray Bradbury, John Carpenter, Rockne S.
O'Bannon, Mick Garris, Frank Spotnitz, Steve Niles and Richard
Christian Matheson.
Contents:
1) Preface: Tracing the Bloodlines by Mark Dawidziak
2) Introduction #1: Richard the Writer, Vlad the Impaler and "Dracula" the Script by Mark Dawidziak
3) Dracula: Richard Matheson's complete script for the TV
movie
4) The Dracula Treatment: Richard Matheson's Treatment for
the Script
5) Gallery A: Pictures from "Dracula"
6) Introduction #2: The Unfilmed Legend by Mark Dawidziak
7) Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend" Script
8) "I Am Legend" (the complete novel) (1954)
9) Gallery B: Pictures from versions of "I Am Legend"
10) Introduction #3: The Short Stories by Mark Dawidziak
11) "Blood Son" (1951, also "Drink My Red Blood")
12) "The Funeral" (1955)
13) "No Such Thing as a Vampire" (1959)
14) Gallery C: Pictures from "The Funeral" and "No Such Thing as a Vampire"
