The Second Hammer Horror Omnibus

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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.With classics like Dracula – Prince of Darkness, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee, Hammer Films set the benchmark for horror cinema, creating some of horror’s most enduring icons. Back in print after decades, this collection contains seminal novelisations from the studio’s classic era of macabre storytelling, with a new foreword by author Stephen Laws and a new afterword by screenwriter Stephen Volk.THE REPTILE (1966)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 (1966)Blood mingles with ashes and so becomes a life-giving force to the evil desires of a Vampire.RASPUTIN – THE MAD MONK (1966)Hypnotist, seducer, libertine and drunkard – he ruled the Tsar's court like a devil incarnate.THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES (1966)Infamous Voodoo ritual casts its barbarous shadow over a village of 'the undead'.

(W) John Burke