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NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE NOVELIZATION

JAMES BURRELL

(Avon Books; Picador/Pan Books, 1979) Released the same year as such high-profile vampire projects as John Badham’s Dracula and Tobe Hooper’s Salem’s Lot, director Werner Herzog’s 1979 remake of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent masterpiece Nosferatu: A Symphany of Terror stands on its own as a superlative piece of art-house horror cinema. Starring Klaus Kinski as the grotesque, undead Count and Isabelle Adjani as his object of desire, Nosferatu the Vampyre received a novelization penned by author, poet, and future AIDS activist, Paul Monette. Expanding upon some elements in the movie, Monette’s prose is hauntingly beautiful, and a perfect companion piece to Herzog’s film. Published in paperback in the USA by Avon Books and the UK by Picador/Pan Books, the front covers both showcase the sumptuous theatrical poster art by painter David…

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