THE BACKROOM BOOKCASE PART 2 - MORE HORROR AND SCI-FI MOVIE AND TV NOVELISATIONS
In my previous article, I took a look at some of the horror/sci-fi movie and TV novelisations that fight for space on the bookshelves here in the backroom. Time to take a look at a few more... First up we have William Goldstein's novelisations of his own screenplays for the two Vincent Price Dr Phibes movies - The Abominable Dr. Phibes (here re-named simply Dr Phibes) and Dr. Phibes Rises Again. The two Phibes movies where noted for being darkly humorous and also incredibly camp. If anything the book versions are even more bizzare. Goldstein takes his original tales of twisted OTT vengence and warps them still further into something that's almost unrecognisable as a conventional book. Goldstein writes in this weird almost "stream of consciousness" style - the narrative follows the films to a point but is constantly being interrupted and going off into tangents. To be honest they read like Goldstein was blasted out of his mind on various psychedelic substances when he
