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Midnight Movie:  a novel
By Tobe Hooper and Alan Goldsher
Hollywood Monster
By Robert Englund with Alan Goldsher
In a Single Bound
Losing My Leg, Finding Myself, And Training For Life
By Sarah Reinertsen with Alan Goldsher

The good news: Director Tobe Hooper has been invited to speak at a screening of Destiny Express, a movie he wrote and directed as a teenager, but that hasn’t seen the light of day in decades. And Hooper’s fans are ecstatic.
 
The bad news: Destiny Express proves to be a killer . . . literally. As the death toll mounts, Tobe embarks on a desperate journey to understand the film’s thirty-year-old origins—and put an end to the strange epidemic his creation has set in motion. 
 
Featuring the terror, humor, and sly documentary style Hooper devotees remember from such classics as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Midnight Movie is vintage Tobe Hooper, again demonstrating the director’s place as one of the godfathers of modern horror.


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"Uses horror tropes with considerable skill and ingenuity. Hooper and Goldsher demonstrate an undeniable talent."

-Publishers Weekly


“Tobe's new novel Midnight Movie (co-written with Alan Goldsher) is just as insane as I knew it would be.  A violent, funny and novel premise (no pun intended).”

-director John Landis


Midnight Movie is all Tobe, all brilliantly excessive and funny. Very cool, very enjoyable.”

-director John Carpenter

You've seen him in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series — and in your darkest dreams. The sadistic killer with the flame-charred face. The knife-blade claws. The razor-sharp wit. Freddy...But you've never seen him like this. Unflinching. Uncensored. Unmasked.


Meet Robert Englund, the award-winning actor best known for his role as Freddy Krueger, the legendary horror icon featured on the American Film Institute's “100 Greatest Heroes and Villains” roster. Now, for the first time, the man behind the latex mask tells his story in this captivating new memoir, published to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first A Nightmare on Elm Street film.


You see, Robert Englund is no monster at all, but a deeply funny, charming Hollywood veteran. Packed with Robert's hilarious stories, playful self-deprecation, and a generous helping of never-before-revealed A Nightmare on Elm Street trivia, Hollywood Monster offers an unparalleled look at the beloved film icon. With insider savvy and gallows humor, Robert recounts his audition for Wes Craven, the inspiration for Freddy's character, the grueling makeup sessions, his soon-to-be-famous costars, the often disastrous on-set blunders, and the wave of popularity that propelled this humble California surfer kid all the way to the top.


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“Monstrously entertaining! Robert proves as gifted and versatile on the page as on the screen. Irreverent, uproarious, revealing!”

-Mark Hamill

Sarah Reinertsen was born with a congenital birth defect. At the age of seven, her leg was amputated. At the age of thirteen, she broke the 100-meter world record for female above-the-knee amputees. At the age of thirty, she became the first female leg-amputee to complete the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii. A year later, in CBS’s reality television show The Amazing Race 10, she scaled the Great Wall of China. This book tells her story.

 

Touching, funny, and honest, In a Single Bound is the story of how a feisty little girl from Long Island became one of the world’s most famous disabled sports figures. But it is also a gripping memoir of inner strength, about a one-legged child trying to fit in with her two-legged friends—about a woman who dared to fear less and live more.


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“A must-read for disabled readers seeking inspiration for their dreams, and will hold the interest—and crush the excuses – of those training for marathons and triathlons.”

-Kirkus Reviews

How I Slept My Way To The Middle:  
Secrets and Stories From the Stage, the Screen, and the Interwebs
By Kevin Pollak and Alan Goldsher

Kevin Pollak is an award-winning actor, a celebrated comedian/impressionist, and now an Internet pioneer. Hilarious, raw, and revealing, How I Slept My Way to the Middle winningly combines his never-before-heard stories featuring A-list entertainers with fan favorites and Pollak’s own thoughts on how he made it. Find out how he brought John Belushi to his knees, tortured Paul Reiser (twice), bamboozled Larry King, stole Alan Arkin’s soul, almost killed Warren Beatty, and sucked face with Robert DeNiro’s girlfriend. He’s laughing proof that if you follow your gut and believe in yourself, you can do anything you want—except have a rational conversation with Rip Torn, who’s an evil, paranoid $#!%.


AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 7, 2012

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