Various Authors — Into The Velvet Darkness-A Celebration Of Vincent
As we’ve come to expect from the We Belong Dead team we get a classy presentation. The books a large format paperback book, with a glossy cover featuring on it’s front a great painted picture of Mr Price in a top hat looking mournful, and on the back cover we find another painting taking in Price in few of the many roles he played. The book is highly colourful through-out, with a great blend of stills, poster artwork, photos, and more.
The book takes over seventy separate articles by different writers, and these run between a few & six pages apiece. And really is astonishing the range here- we move from the expected horror film overview/ write-up, onto pieces about Prices' theatrical triumphs, through write-up about Noir & Swashbuckler films featuring the great man. Moving onto novel tie in of films featuring Price, film soundtrack reviews, comics featuring Price. TV appearances, his love of cooking & his cooking show Cooking With Price- which rang for six episodes in the early 1970s. Moving onto filming location tours, Collecting Price memorabilia, and making Price figurines etc . Each article is well written- with the writing style moving between well researched & informative, to passionate-yet down to earth, to playful & slightly humorous. I’ve been a fan of Mr Prices work since been a teen in the late 1980s, and I found out a whole host of Price related information I wasn’t aware of before- making this wonderful book really a must for fans of Mr Price.
At present this book is on sale at a knock-down price of £30.00- so head over here to snag a copy before it sells out, as We Belong Dead titles do tend to go out of print quickly- and I’m really surprised that there are still copies of this left!.