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Lon Chaney, Jr.
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Vincent Price
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Peter Lorre
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Bela Lugosi
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Peter Cushing
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LON CHANEY, JR.
edited by Gary
J. Svehla and Susan Svehla
6x9 paperback, 320 pages, $25
The Midnight Actors Series delves
into pivotal films made throughout Lon Chaney's career
(not only the mainstream Universal and horror classics,
but his stunning performance in Of Mice and Men, his
B Western career, his low-budget horror/exploitation
movie career, his prestigious character performances
in A productions, his television work, etc.), by having
different authors offer distinct reflections and individual
insights, and by including several firsthand interviews
from people who worked with Chaney, Jr., we hope to
offer the most complete and balanced portrait yet
seen of Lon Chaney, Jr., working actor.
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Vincent Price
edited by Gary J. and Susan Svehla
Reprint 2003
6x9 paperback; 282 pages; $25.00
The fourth volume in the highly
acclaimed Midnight Marquee Actors Series covers the
film work of horror icon Vincent Price. In addition
to his films, there is a chapter devoted to his radio
work and another covering the stage play Diversions
and Delights. The book also includes a never before
published interview with Mr. Price by historian/author
Lawrence French. A must for Vincent Price lovers.
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Peter Lorre
edited by Gary J. Svehla and Susan
Svehla
6x9 paperback, 320 pages, $20
After coverning horror film icons
Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr. and Vincent
Price, Midnight Marquee Press wanted to go in a slightly
different direction for our fifth edition of the Actors
Series, by highlighting quasi-horror man Peter Lorre.
While the other entries in the series were predominantly
horror film actors, Peter Lorre made many horror film
appearances, but was never actually considered a horror
film star. Instead, it was Lorre's persona, that of
a quirky, deviant little man, sometimes charming,
sometimes boiling over with venom, that made him a
perfect match for horror films. However, Lorre also
played opposite such mainstream stars as Clark Gable,
Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Kirk Douglas,
Mickey Rooney and Bob Hope. Lorre felt just as comfortable
enacting supporting roles in A films as he did starring
in the Bs. This book takes an in-depth look at the
film work of this versatile performer by providing
analyses of films such as M, Mad Love, The Face Behind
the Mask, The Maltese Falcon, The Raven and The Comedy
of Terrors as well as many of the other films that
made Peter Lorre a film legend.
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BELA LUGOSI
6x9, 320 pages, $20.00
(OUT OF PRINT
Copies available are not in mint condition.
The first entry in the Midnight Marquee Actors
Series offers in-depth analyses of 32 of the films
that helped create Lugosi's cinematic persona as
the first true horror film legend. This book covers
Lugosi's films from the pre-Dracula early sound
ear, details his Universal and 1930s' classics,
investigates his stint on poverty row at Monogram
and PRC in the 1940s, and explores the downward
spiral and his much discussed film work for Edward
D. Wood, Jr. in the 1950s. Some of today's foremost
horror film writers contributed to this exploration
of Bela Lugosi's work.
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PETER CUSHING
edited by Anthony Ambrogio
6x9 paperback, 282 pages, $25.00
Midnight Marquee Press, Inc. is pleased to
introduce this volume that begins the "second phase"
of Midnight Marquee PressÕ acclaimed Actors Series.
Having shone the spotlight on those titans of Golden
and Silver Age horror (all American by birth or
naturalization)ÑLugosi, Karloff, Chaney, Jr., Price,
and LorreÑMidnight Marquee now ventures into the
Iron Age of Hammer (and British horror) with a collection
examining the work of Peter Cushing. Cushing has
been the subject of other books (and his own autobiographies,
reprinted in one volume by Midnight Marquee Press,
1999), so one might question the need for yet another
work. The answer, I think, lies in the essays that
make up this volume, which put the emphasis squarely
on the performer himself (as befits an Actors Series).
Not only do Midnight MarqueeÕs stable of reliables
and newcomers analyze 56 of CushingÕs performances
in depth, but the annotated filmography offers capsule
comments about most of his other roles. Anyone interested
in the enormous contributions to horror film and
film in general by the "Gentle Man of Horror"Ñarguably
the most accomplished actor ever to become a horror
starÑwill find a great deal of insight and intelligence
within these pages.
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