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Jack MacGowran
Actor
October 13, 1918 – January 30, 1973
Sunday, October 13, 2024
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Born on this day – Georgia Backus:
Georgia Backus
Actress
October 13, 1900 – September 7, 1983
Credits:
Schlitz Playhouse (1952);
Mark of the Renegade (1951); Apache Drums (1951); Cause for Alarm! (1951); Mother
Didn't Tell Me (1950); No Man of Her Own (1950); Copper Canyon (1950); Song of
Surrender (1949); Too Late for Tears (1949); Force of Evil (1948); Dream Girl
(1948); Suddenly It's Spring (1947); Lady in the Dark (1944); Standing Room
Only (1944); The Moon Is Down (1943); Lucky Jordan (1942); My Heart Belongs to
Daddy (1942); I Married a Witch (1942); The Talk of the Town (1942); Blondie
for Victory (1942); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); Not a Ladies' Man (1942);
Take a Letter, Darling (1942); Shut My Big Mouth (1942); The Lady Is Willing
(1942); Bedtime Story (1941); Mr. District Attorney in the Carter Case (1941); You
Belong to Me (1941); Blondie in Society (1941); They Dare Not Love (1941); Citizen
Kane (1941); Repent at Leisure (1941); Footlight Fever (1941); So Ends Our
Night (1941); Nobody's Children (1940).
Born on this day – Irene Rich:
Irene Rich
Actress
October 13, 1891 – April 22, 1988
Credits:
The Chevrolet
Tele-Theatre (1949); Joan of Arc (1948); Fort Apache (1948); New Orleans (1947);
Angel and the Badman (1947); Calendar Girl (1947); This Time for Keeps (1942); Three
Sons o' Guns (1941); Keeping Company (1940); Queen of the Yukon (1940); The
Lady in Question (1940); The Mortal Storm (1940); Everybody's Hobby (1939); The
Right Way (1939); That Certain Age (1938); Hollywood Handicap (1938); Spitfire
(1934); Manhattan Tower (1932); Her Mad Night (1932); Down to Earth (1932); The
Champ (1931); Wicked (1931); The Mad Parade (1931); Five and Ten (1931); Strangers
May Kiss (1931); Father's Son (1931); Beau Ideal (1931); Double Check (1930); On
Your Back (1930); So This Is London (1930); Shanghai Rose (1929); They Had to
See Paris (1929); The Exalted Flapper (1929); Daughters of Desire (1929); Ned
McCobb's Daughter (1928); Women They Talk About (1928); The Perfect Crime
(1928); Craig's Wife (1928); Powder My Back (1928); Beware of Married Men
(1927); The Silver Slave (1927); The Desired Woman (1927); Dearie (1927); The
Climbers (1927); Don't Tell the Wife (1927); My Official Wife (1926); The
Honeymoon Express (1926); Silken Shackles (1926); Lady Windermere's Fan (1925);
The Pleasure Buyers (1925); Compromise (1925); The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
(1925); Eve's Lover (1925); The Man Without a Conscience (1925); My Wife and I
(1925); A Lost Lady (1924); What the Butler Saw (1924); This Woman (1924); Behold
This Woman (1924); A Woman Who Sinned (1924); Captain January (1924); Being
Respectable (1924); Cytherea (1924); Beau Brummel (1924); Pal o' Mine (1924); Boy
of Mine (1923); Lucretia Lombard (1923); Defying Destiny (1923); Rosita (1923);
Yesterday's Wife (1923); Dangerous Trails (1923); Michael O'Halloran (1923); Snowdrift
(1923); Brass (1923); Fruits of Faith (1922); The Marriage Chance (1922); While
Justice Waits (1922); Brawn of the North (1922); The Ropin' Fool (1922); The
Yosemite Trail (1922); A Fool There Was (1922); One Clear Call (1922); The Trap
(1922); Strength of the Pines (1922); The Call of Home (1922); The Poverty of
Riches (1921); The Invisible Power (1921); Desperate Trails (1921); A Voice in
the Dark (1921); A Tale of Two Worlds (1921); Boys Will Be Boys (1921); One Man
in a Million (1921); Sunset Jones (1921); Godless Men (1920); Just Out of
College (1920); Stop Thief (1920); Jes' Call Me Jim (1920); The Strange Boarder
(1920); The Street Called Straight (1920); Water, Water, Everywhere (1920); The
Spite Bride (1919); Her Purchase Price (1919); Wolves of the Night (1919); The
Blue Bonnet (1919); The Sneak (1919); The Lone Star Ranger (1919); Castles in
the Air (1919); The Silver Girl (1919); Diane of the Green Van (1919); A Man in
the Open (1919); Todd of the Times (1919); A Law Unto Herself (1918); The Girl
in His House (1918); A Desert Wooing (1918).
Recommended reading - PHICTION: Tales from the World of Phantasm (2024):
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PHICTION: Tales from the World of Phantasm
By Don Coscarelli.
Illustrated by Aaron Lea.
Foreward by Joe R.
Lansdale.
Paperback.
Published by Molotov
Press.
Published 2024.
ASIN: B0D2QZ3MQK
ISBN-13: 979-8988243038
Description:
“Electrifyingly tense
and gruesome… Horror fans and cult devotees of the classic horror series will
find Coscarelli’s ingenuity a rare treat.” - Kirkus Reviews.
“It’s magnificent. An
impressive collection of remarkable short-story horror fiction that I can
proudly display on my bookshelf next to Poe, King, Dahl, Barker, Bradbury, and
Lovecraft.” - Nick DiGilio, WGN Chicago.
In 1979, filmmaker Don
Coscarelli (Bubba Ho-tep, The Beastmaster) wrote and directed
what became one of the seminal sci-fi/horror films of that era, Phantasm.
The film was a worldwide theatrical success and spawned four
acclaimed sequels.
For the first time in
the history of horror cinema, a celebrated filmmaker of a cult-classic horror
film series has continued the adventure by swapping mediums and personally
authoring a series of fictional works exploring in detail the characters he originally
created. Coscarelli has now returned to the world of Phantasm to tell more
tales of these inspiring phantasmic heroes.
PHICTION comprises six stories set in the expansive Phantasm world
that have never been told before:
In Life and Death in
the 'Nam we explore the origin story of our favorite ice cream vendor/hero
Reggie and his first encounter with the supernatural forces of evil in the
jungles of the Vietnam war. It's a two-fisted tale of a young man enduring the
horrors of war and at the same time facing down the horrors of the unknown.
In Behind the
Mortuary Door we learn the secrets of the embalming trade from one of the
most memorable characters from the original film.
In He Was Home Alone
we revisit the young boy Tim, prior to the events from Phantasm Ill, and
how, using only his wits and guile, he survives against unspeakable horrors.
In Tobe we follow
the trail of one of Phantasm's forgotten characters as he witnesses the key
events of that film from an entirely different perspective.
In The Rocky Road
we track the events of one of the Phantasm saga's fan-favorite characters, the
nunchuck-wielding Rocky as she's mustered out of the armed services and travels
the backroads of the rural South in the early 90's. In a desperate search to
find her family she encounters love, vengeance and horror, frequently reacting
in the only way she knows how, with her fists and her feet.
And finally in Escape
From New York we join another Phantasm fan-favorite character, the
diminutive Chunk from Phantasm Ravager as he attempts to flee his home
in the big city from the horror of an oncoming apocalypse. Along the way he
bonds with some unexpected allies on a thrilling quest for survival.
In association with
illustrator Aaron Lea (GHOST, Rob Zombie), Molotov Press now presents Phiction:
Tales from the World of Phantasm.
Tales from the world of
Phantasm.
Phiction conuures six stunning new tales from the world of the
classic Phantasm film franchise. Acclaimed filmmaker, series creator and
Master of Horror, Don Coscarelli, returns the reader to Morningside Mortuary
with revelatory origin stories for some of the Phantasm saga’s most
compelling characters including ice cream vendor/action hero Reggie,
fan-favorite Rocky from Phantasm III and Chunk from Phantasm:
Ravager.
Six Stories from the
master of horror.
“You
are in for a treat. As with the [Phantasm] films, these stories will give you
what people call chicken skin, and others call Goosebumps. What [Phiction] will
do above all else, is entertain. Dive in. The dark waters are fines.” – Joe R.
Lansdale (best-selling author of Hap & Leonard, Cold in July and
Bubba Ho-tep).
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