4 iconic, gruesome, Gothic Hammer Horror films novelized by a best-selling author, with a new foreword by author Stephen Laws and a new afterword by screenwriter Stephen Volk. Includes Dracula: Prince of Darkness, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee, alongside The Reptile, Rasputin – The Mad Monk and The Plague of the Zombies.
THE REPTILE. From the steaming jungles of Borneo to a remote Cornish village came the fiendish curse that turned a lovely young girl into a nameless horror.
DRACULA -- PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Blood mingles with ashes and so becomes a life-giving force to the evil desires of a Vampire.
RASPUTIN -- THE MAD MONK. Hypnotist, seducer, libertine and drunkard -- he ruled the Tsar's court like a devil incarnate.
THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES. Infamous Voodoo ritual casts its barbarous shadow over a village of 'the undead'.
John Frederick Burke was an English writer of novels and short stories, specializing in film and tv tie-ins.
He wrote under the pen names J. F. Burke, Jonathan Burke, John Burke, Jonathan George, Robert Miall, Martin Sands, Owen Burke, Sara Morris, Russ Ames, Roger Rougiere, Joanna Jones and co-wrote with his wife Jean Burke under the pen name Harriet Esmond.
4 iconic, gruesome, Gothic Hammer Horror films novelized by a best-selling author, with a new foreword by author Stephen Laws and a new afterword by screenwriter Stephen Volk. Includes Dracula: Prince of Darkness, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee, alongside The Reptile, Rasputin – The Mad Monk and The Plague of the Zombies.
THE REPTILE. From the steaming jungles of Borneo to a remote Cornish village came the fiendish curse that turned a lovely young girl into a nameless horror.
DRACULA -- PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Blood mingles with ashes and so becomes a life-giving force to the evil desires of a Vampire.
RASPUTIN -- THE MAD MONK. Hypnotist, seducer, libertine and drunkard -- he ruled the Tsar's court like a devil incarnate.
THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES. Infamous Voodoo ritual casts its barbarous shadow over a village of 'the undead'.
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John Frederick Burke was an English writer of novels and short stories, specializing in film and tv tie-ins.
He wrote under the pen names J. F. Burke, Jonathan Burke, John Burke, Jonathan George, Robert Miall, Martin Sands, Owen Burke, Sara Morris, Russ Ames, Roger Rougiere, Joanna Jones and co-wrote with his wife Jean Burke under the pen name Harriet Esmond.
