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THIRST: An Inheritance of Evil [author JOHN PINKNEY]
Book Details
Author(s)John Pinkney
PublisherJohn Pinkney
ISBN / ASINB004ZSZ3F0
ISBN-13978B004ZSZ3F5
Sales Rank1,435,960
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
THIS IS THE extraordinary novel that inspired one of the most discussed movies in horror film history. Director Rod Hardy's brilliant interpretation of John Pinkney's original screenplay won THIRST the Best-in-Category prize at 1980's Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
Leonard Maltin, in his Movie Guide, described THIRST as a 'strange, stylish, chilling tale.' And the sheer originality of the ideas underlying the story bring rave reviews from websites worldwide. 'One of the most original vampire films ever made...would make Roman Polanski proud' [Lancifier, Kindertrauma]. 'An imaginative and entertaining upgrade of the vampire myth. In the hands of screenwriter John Pinkney, the gothic trappings and cliches are thrown out the window.' [Eccentric Cinema.]
Pinkney's eerie suspense novel centers on Kate Davis, 27-year-old owner of an online cosmetics empire. When Kate is kidnapped - following the celebrated scene concerning a cat and a milk carton - she assumes her captors want money, and offers to pay a large ransom. Only gradually does she learn that the kidnappers are already breathtakingly rich. And that what they really want from her is sinister beyond her imagining.
THIRST the novel should be read at least twice. First for its unrelenting tension and profound mystery. But then, for its dark explorations of other worlds, other eras, and other modes of human consciousness and conduct.
Even after the story ends, the evil dream continues. In a nightmare-riven Appendix, Kate's kidnappers favor us with the details of what they actually do, and how they do it.
The book also contains posters...a gallery of scenes from the film...and author Pinkney's recollections, not only of how he came to write THIRST, but of how its producer and director prematurely pronounced him dead - broadcasting their deeply-felt funeral tributes to the world.
ALSO BY JOHN PINKNEY IN EBOOKS:
* Australia's Strangest Mysteries#1 and #2 * A Paranormal File *The Girl Who Touched Infinity [young-adult novel] * The Key and the Fountain *Haunted: the ghosts that share our world *The Mary Celeste Syndrome: and 18 other tantalizing mysteries *Alien Airships Over Old America: and 18 other tantalizing mysteries
Leonard Maltin, in his Movie Guide, described THIRST as a 'strange, stylish, chilling tale.' And the sheer originality of the ideas underlying the story bring rave reviews from websites worldwide. 'One of the most original vampire films ever made...would make Roman Polanski proud' [Lancifier, Kindertrauma]. 'An imaginative and entertaining upgrade of the vampire myth. In the hands of screenwriter John Pinkney, the gothic trappings and cliches are thrown out the window.' [Eccentric Cinema.]
Pinkney's eerie suspense novel centers on Kate Davis, 27-year-old owner of an online cosmetics empire. When Kate is kidnapped - following the celebrated scene concerning a cat and a milk carton - she assumes her captors want money, and offers to pay a large ransom. Only gradually does she learn that the kidnappers are already breathtakingly rich. And that what they really want from her is sinister beyond her imagining.
THIRST the novel should be read at least twice. First for its unrelenting tension and profound mystery. But then, for its dark explorations of other worlds, other eras, and other modes of human consciousness and conduct.
Even after the story ends, the evil dream continues. In a nightmare-riven Appendix, Kate's kidnappers favor us with the details of what they actually do, and how they do it.
The book also contains posters...a gallery of scenes from the film...and author Pinkney's recollections, not only of how he came to write THIRST, but of how its producer and director prematurely pronounced him dead - broadcasting their deeply-felt funeral tributes to the world.
ALSO BY JOHN PINKNEY IN EBOOKS:
* Australia's Strangest Mysteries#1 and #2 * A Paranormal File *The Girl Who Touched Infinity [young-adult novel] * The Key and the Fountain *Haunted: the ghosts that share our world *The Mary Celeste Syndrome: and 18 other tantalizing mysteries *Alien Airships Over Old America: and 18 other tantalizing mysteries
