If they're honest, anyone who's been married more than a month has to admit to having "Did I marry the wrong person?" Maybe he's not helping around the house enough. Or she's not into sex as much as you'd like. "They say love is blind," laughs Tim Lucas, "but marriage opens your eyes. According to the Bible, none of us are compatible!" With his trademark humor, honesty and insight, Tim reveals how our culture's quest for the "perfect partner" misses the point of marriage. Discover how admitting "You Married the Wrong Person!" can liberate your relationship & allow God to fill the gap between expectation & reality.

You Married the Wrong Person: The Relationship Secret Every Couple Needs to Know

TIM LUCAS

Liquid Church

SYNOPSIS 
 Thomas Nigel Kneale may not be a household name, but those who know him revere him. And those who don t know the name, will certainly have felt his influence. In many ways the father of television drama in the UK, he was also, in every way, a successor to H.G. Wells and M.R. James in his impact. The missing link in the genre chain that leads from Wells to J.G. Ballard. Why is he so little known? Perhaps because he was a screenwriter in the days before TV thought to preserve its output, and because many of his most successful works dealt with Science Fiction and the Supernatural. But he was a pioneer. He pushed the medium in a new direction with THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT, forging a more vivid, more cinematic means of telling stories, with Producer/Director Rudolph Cartier. He demanded more from Television... in terms of style, and content. Filling his stories with ideas as well as emotion. Time after time, he broke new ground, tested the boundaries; provoked as he enthralled, made us think as he made us feel... THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT, THE YEAR OF THE SEX OLYMPICS, QUATERMASS AND THE PIT, THE ROAD, THE STONE TAPE, BEASTS... In the UK, there s not a single TV drama dealing in Speculative ideas that does not owe him a debt; directly, or by the ripples of influence that preceded them... Now the authors, critics and screenwriters who have been moved and influenced by his work, come together to celebrate his life, his work, and his extraordinary legacy in: WE ARE THE MARTIANS: The Legacy Of Nigel Kneale. CONTENTS Foreword - Mark Gatiss Introduction - Neil Snowdon King Of Hauntology - Mark Chadbourn The Literary Kneale - Tim Lucas The Quatermass Conception - Stephen Bissette A Conversation With Judith Kerr - Neil Snowdon On Nigel Kneale - Ramsey Campbell The Quatermass Legacy: A Personal Reflection On Kneale And His Influence - David Pirie Creeping Unknown Pt1: Wuthering Heights, The Crunch, Nineteen Eighty Four - Kim Newman Phenomena Badly Observed, And Wrongly Explained: Quatermass, The Pit, And Me - John Llewellyn Probert Under The Influence - Maura McHugh A Conversation With Joe Dante - Neil Snowdon Brief Encounter - Stephen Laws Adaptation And Anger, Or The Nigel Kneale-John Osbourne Synthesis - Richard Harland Smith The Promised End Nigel Kneale s Lost Masterpiece from 1963: The Road - Jonathan Rigby A Conversation With Mark Gatiss - Neil Snowdon Cool The Audience, Cool The World: Media, Mind Control &amp; The Modern Family - Kier-La Janisse Pushing The Door He Unlocked: Ghostwatch And The Stone Tape - Stephen Volk Beasts: An Overview - Mark Morris It Would Have Been Suckled, You Know : Beasts And Baby An Appreciation - Jeremy Dyson Quatermass: Rebirth &amp; Ressurection Jez Winship The Quatermass Conclusion: An Interview With Nigel Kneale - David Sutton. Creeping Unknown Pt2: Kinvig Kim Newman In Pursuit Of Unhappy Endings: Chris Burt &amp; Herbert Wise on The Woman In Black - Tony Earnshaw Where s Kneale When You Need Him- Thana Niveau Creeping Unknown Pt3: Sharpe's Gold &amp; Kavanagh QC - Kim Newman On Wishing For A Nigel Kneale Childhood - Lynda E. Rucker

We Are The Martians: The Legacy of Nigel Kneale

Literature & Fiction

MARK GATISS

Neil Snowdon

Maura McHugh

kim-newman

Mark Chadbourn

Stephen Laws

Ramsey, Campbell

Stephen Bissette

Genre Fiction

PS Publishing

SYNOPSIS 
Dismissed as a gloomy and sentimental hack by American and British critics in his day, Edgar Allan Poe was nonetheless revered in France as a poete maudit and master of the short story by Charles Baudelaire, praised as a sublime poet by Mallarme, celebrated as a lucid theoretician of poet effects by Valery. The difference could not have been more stark. 
And yet, when the filmic poets of European Cinema came together to adapt Poe s stories for SPIRITS OF THE DEAD (Histoires Extraordinaires) they were largely derided, with only Fellini s Toby Dammit segment receiving unanimous praise, while the American adaptations of Poe s stories, by Roger Corman and AIP, received both popular and critical acclaim. 
Fitting then, that the wheel should come full circle, as US author and Critic Tim Lucas mounts this compelling re-examination of a film which he has long defended as a Classic of the genre, and which in his own words changed his life . 
Embracing the poetic and the sublime, Lucas takes to task the common misconception that this is a film of parts, to look at it as a richly imagined, sensual, cohesive, and poetic whole. A film which aims for something other than straight forward scares, that eschews the clinical Freudianism of the Corman movies, for something more deeply felt. 
Poe himself claimed that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. For Tim Lucas, SPIRITS OF THE DEAD does just that.

Spirits of the Dead

The Secret Life of Love Songs

The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes is not just a book about Roger Corman and an outstanding cast of familiar and funny supporting characters. It’s a novel about Hollywood when it stood poised between the collapse of the old studio system and the rise of the new independent film movement, a monumental change for which Corman was largely responsible. It’s also a romantic story about finding the courage to reshape your own world and―perhaps most importantly―about the risks and challenges artists must sometimes face if they want to advance to the next plateau.

The Man With Kaleidoscope Eyes

Over nearly thirty years and 184 issues, Video Watchdog Magazine was among the most respected voices in the world of film criticism. For the last sixty of those issues legendary horror writer Ramsey Campbell lent his voice to its pages in RAMSEY'S RAMBLES a review column that moved from Turkish exploitation movies to the charming fantasies of Studio Ghibli; from cinematic sacred cows to home entertainment roadkill. Through it all Ramsey's wit, insight and, above all, his ingrained love and understanding of both cinema and storytelling, shone through. Now, every precious column―plus two written before the magazine ceased publication and printed here for the very first time―has been collected together 
in one indispensible volume, along with a fascinating new introduction in which Ramsey invokes the cinema of his youth and the beginnings of a lifelong devotion to the projector's light. This diverse and thrilling journey covers sixty-six films and almost a century of cinema history (from 1919's The Trail of the Octopus to 2014's Song of the Sea) and is essential reading both cineastes and the many fans of Ramsey's revered fiction.

Ramsey's Rambles [Jacketed Hardcover]

ABOUT THIS BOOK 
Over nearly thirty years and 184 issues, Video Watchdog Magazine was among the most respected voices in the world of film criticism. For the last sixty of those issues legendary horror writer Ramsey Campbell lent his voice to its pages in RAMSEY'S RAMBLES a review column that moved from Turkish exploitation movies to the charming fantasies of Studio Ghibli; from cinematic sacred cows to home entertainment roadkill. Through it all Ramsey's wit, insight and, above all, his ingrained love and understanding of both cinema and storytelling, shone through. Now, every precious column―plus two written before the magazine ceased publication and printed here for the very first time―has been collected together in one indispensible volume, along with a fascinating new introduction in which Ramsey invokes the cinema of his youth and the beginnings of a lifelong devotion to the projector's light. This diverse and thrilling journey covers sixty-six films and almost a century of cinema history (from 1919's The Trail of the Octopus to 2014's Song of the Sea) and is essential reading both cineastes and the many fans of Ramsey's revered fiction.

Ramsey's Rambles [Trade Paperback]

Spending his lunch hours in a porno theater to relieve his boredom, a young advertising executive discovers an obscure film called Throat Sprockets and develops a fascination for women's throats that gradually consumes his life.

Throat Sprockets: A Novel of Erotic Obsession

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Howard, Vernon

Lucas Balbo

Peter Blumenstock

Christian Kessler

Selbstverlag Frank Trebbin

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