First published in 1978, five years after the release of the classic horror film from which it is adapted, The Wicker Man by director Robin Hardy and screenwriter Anthony Shaffer, is a gripping horror classic. A novelization of the haunting Anthony Shaffer script, which drew from David Pinner's Ritual, it is the tale of Highlands policeman, Police Sergeant Neil Howie, on the trail of a missing girl being lured to the remote Scottish island of Summerisle. As May Day approaches, strange, magical, shamanistic and erotic ...
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First published in 1978, five years after the release of the classic horror film from which it is adapted, The Wicker Man by director Robin Hardy and screenwriter Anthony Shaffer, is a gripping horror classic. A novelization of the haunting Anthony Shaffer script, which drew from David Pinner's Ritual, it is the tale of Highlands policeman, Police Sergeant Neil Howie, on the trail of a missing girl being lured to the remote Scottish island of Summerisle. As May Day approaches, strange, magical, shamanistic and erotic events erupt around him. He is convinced that the girl has been abducted for human sacrifice. Yet he is soon to find that he may be the revellers' quarry . . .
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Seller's Description:
Fine in fine dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine mylar protected DJ. Probable 1st printing with no additional printings listed. The DJ has some minor wear and wrinkling to the bottom spine end. Overall, a nice tight copy. 8vo; 216 pages.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Tight, square spine. Former owner name to the front flyleaf, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Only very gentle shelf-wear to the book. Jacket has some light edge-wear. Design by Ruth Kolbert Smerechniak. First inspired by David Pinner's 1967 horror novel, Ritual, which itself evolved out of the film treatment for a never produced John Hurt vehicle, this book represents the culmination of a long chain of movie-to-book-to-movie-to-book adaptations. Director Hardy and screenwriter Shaffer, known for his scripts for Frenzy and Sleuth, are credited as authors and depicted on set in the photo featured on the rear of this jacket designed by 'Big Look Book' innovator Paul Bacon, known for his use of negative space and large, bold titling type, as seen in his iconic first editions of both Catch-22 and Portnoy's Complaint. 216 pp. Featured Rare & Collectible.
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Paul Bacon. Near Fine in Fine jacket. Book A square solid tight carefully read copy. This copy has some very light soil to the text block edges. Basis for the movie adaption. One good, one not so much. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY.
