Book description
Once upon a time Tubby Thackeray's silent comedies were hailed as the
equal of Chaplin's and Keaton's, but now his name has been deleted
from the history of the cinema. Some of his music-hall performances
before he went to Hollywood were riotously controversial, and his last
film was never released - but why have his entire career and all his
films vanished from the record?
Simon Lester is a film critic thrown out of a job by a lawsuit
against the magazine he helped to found. When he's commissioned to
write a book about Thackeray and restore the comedian's reputation, it
seems as if his own career is saved. His research takes him from Los
Angeles to Amsterdam, from dusty archives to a hardcore movie studio.
But his research leads to something far older than the cinema,
something that has taken a new and even more dangerous shape...
The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell
as 'Britain's most respected living horror writer'. He has been awarded
the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention and the Lifetime
Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association. His regular columns
appear in
All Hallows
,
Dead Reckonings
and
Video Watchdog
. He is the President of the British Fantasy Society.
