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Monster Cinema: Quick Takes: Movies & Popular Cinema by Barry Keith Grant (book review).

Now here we are with another ‘Quick Takes’ book, small enough to slip into your pocket for a read on your travels. This time, Barry Keith Grant is into ‘Monster Cinema’. Oddly, this doesn’t just cover your normal SF and horror creatures, but some of the more general genre ones like Norman Bates and Hannibal Lector. Monsters come in many forms and some will refuse to hurt a fly and others have you for lunch. There are even some surprising films that I haven’t heard of, so keep a notebook or your computer close by to look them up in case you want to see about availability.

Grant covers a lot of ground in his four chapters and just when you think he’s missed some film you think should be there, up it pops. If you’re not sure, always check the index. At such a small size, don’t expect the book to be a complete guide but if you want something to review your knowledge or even act as a template for a guessing game on journeys then this will do nicely.

GF Willmetts

December 2018

(pub: Rutgers University Press, 2018. 147 page indexed A5 small paperback. Price: £15.95 (UK), $17.95 (US). ISBN: 978-0-8135-8880-3)

check out websites: www.rutgerspress.rutgers.edu and www.eurospanbookstore.com

UncleGeoff

Geoff Willmetts has been editor at SFCrowsnest for some 21 plus years now, showing a versatility and knowledge in not only Science Fiction, but also the sciences and arts, all of which has been displayed here through editorials, reviews, articles and stories. With the latter, he has been running a short story series under the title of ‘Psi-Kicks’ If you want to contribute to SFCrowsnest, read the guidelines and show him what you can do. If it isn’t usable, he spends as much time telling you what the problems is as he would with material he accepts. This is largely how he got called an Uncle, as in Dutch Uncle. He’s not actually Dutch but hails from the west country in the UK.

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