Wes Craven: The Man and his Nightmares
- An absorbing portrait of cult film director Wes Craven's life and career in film
- Draws on the author's new interviews with Craven, including little-known details about the director's life and work
- Insights into the making of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies and the Scream films—the #1 horror franchise of all time
- Fascinating stories about the director's work with a range of producers, screenwriters, and actors, including Robert Englund
- Publication timing ties in with the release of Scream 4
If you've ever had nightmares about Freddy Krueger or psychopaths wearing Halloween scream masks, or if want to know more about the director behind Scream 4, this is one book you simply have to read.
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Book details
- Author
- John Wooley
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 272
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Performing Arts › Film
- Topics
- horror film directors · A Nightmare on Elm Street · Scream · Hollywood biography · slasher films · filmmaker biography
- ISBN-13
- 9780470497500
About the author
JOHN WOOLEY is an Oklahoma-based author, journalist, and broadcaster who has written, co-written, or edited more than 20 books spanning horror fiction, biography, and music history. His books include Dark Within and Death’s Door, horror novels written with co-author Ron Wolfe.
Death’s Door was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award, and Dark Within was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award. In 2003, Wooley became the first writer inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame.
When he’s not writing, Wooley spent more than two decades as the horror-film writer for the Tulsa World and as a regular contributor to Fangoria magazine, work that began with his first professional sale — a script placed with Eerie magazine in the late 1960s.
John lives in Bushyhead, Oklahoma.