Q: You are one of the most extraordinarily imaginative and creative thinkers working in the arts today. The novel grew out of appetite and scope. Nevertheless some of my favorite authors, Jorge Luis Borges, Horatio Quiroga, Saki, etc. I love the short story form as a reader but if a novel has a terse structure I find it far more immersive and fulfilling. My favorite author in that sense is Roald Dahl who mixed it free-style between the grotesque and the magical. I have published some of my short stories in the past and it is my secret dream to write shivery tales for young readers. GDT: Well, it’s a different challenge, but I’ve always written short stories and then, in my film work, storylines for movies (the storyline is a slightly “freer” form than screenplay writing). Q: Guillermo Del Toro, you’ve written screenplays and directed numerous movies, to name a few of your many accomplishments. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Soon Eph and a small band of helpers will find themselves battling to protect not only their own loved ones, but the whole city, against an ancient threat to humanity. And when all two hundred corpses disappear from various morgues around the city on the same night, things very rapidly get worse.

The first thing they discover is that four of the victims are actually still alive.

Ephraim Goodweather and his team from the Center for Disease Control must work quickly to establish the cause of this strange ocurrence before panic spreads. When the hatch above the wing finally clicks open, it soon becomes clear that everyone on board is dead - although there is no sign of any trauma or struggle. A plane lands at JFK and mysteriously 'goes dark', stopping in the middle of the runway for no apparent reason, all lights off, all doors sealed. Signed by Author(s).High-concept thriller with a supernatural edge from world-famous director, whose films include Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy. A horror novel with genuinely scary vampires. (Does NOT have the common remainder mark to the outer page edges.) Adapted for the FX televised film series by the two-time Oscar award winning director of PAN'S LABYRINTH, and SHAPE OF WATER, Guillermo del Toro.

Fine and tight in glossy red and black illustrated boards with cream titles to the spine, red end-papers, plum headband and tail-band a fine dust jacket that bears the first issue peek-a-boo die-cut (later issues are not cut-out) and raised lettering to the front panel original $26.99 printed price and printed date code '0609' still intact to the front inner flap. This quality first edition first printing also has red-colored end-papers, a headband and tail-band and the first issue high-quality dust jacket. SIGNED by the multi-award-winning author, screenwriter, and film director Guillermo del Toro to a loosely laid in bookplate. Contains publisher's first printing number code sequence 1 through 10 and statement 'First edition' to the copyright page.

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