Publication: Al cinema con il mostro. Volume primo

Publication: Al cinema con il mostro. Volume primoPublication Record # 416293
Editor: Peter Haining
Date: 1981-11-11
Catalog ID: 20569-0
Publisher: Mondadori
Pub. Series: Oscar
Pub. Series #: 1433
Price:
Lit 3,750^?Lit: Italian lira. ISO code: ITL in 1861-1999
Pages: 250
Format:
pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
Type: ANTHOLOGY
Cover: Al cinema con il mostro. Volume primo by John Holmes (variant of The Ghouls: Book Two 1974)
Notes:
- The Ghouls. Book One was translated by Gianni Montanari and Guido Zurlino as "Al cinema con il mostro. Volume primo". Single stories were translated as follows:
  - The Devil in a Nunnery as "Il diavolo in convento"
  - The System of dr. Tarr and prof. Fether as "I pazzi"
  - Feathertop as "Passioni puritate"
  - Le Fantôme de l'Opéra as "Il fantasma dell'Opera", abridged
  - The Magician as "Il mago", excerpt
  - Spurs as "Freaks"
  - The Most Dangerous Game as "La pericolosa partita"
  - Dracula's Guest as "La figlia di Dracula"
  - The Devil and Daniel Wilson as "L'oro del demonio"
- Data from http://www.fantascienza.com
- Each story is preceded by a short note by the Editor. The book was sold as a boxed set with Oscar #1434 "Al cinema con il mostro. Volume secondo" (Worldcat assigns a single number to both pubs); the box has Catalog #20568-2 (s. http://www.catalogovegetti.com)
- Also listed as Oscar Fantascienza #32
- WorldCat gives a page count of 244.
- Second numbering from Worldcat and http://www.catalogovegetti.com
External IDs:
- NILF: 103285
- OCLC/WorldCat: 800161611

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Anthology Title: Al cinema con il mostro. Volume primo • anthology by Peter Haining (trans. of The Ghouls 1971)

Contents (view Concise Listing)

7 • Prefazione del curatore (Al cinema con il mostro. Volume primo) • essay by Peter Haining (trans. of Editor's Foreword (The Ghouls) 1971)
11 • Introduzione (Al cinema con il mostro. Volume primo) • essay by Vincent Price (trans. of Introduction (The Ghouls) 1971)
15 • Il diavolo in convento • short story by Francis Oscar Mann (trans. of The Devil in a Nunnery 1914)
27 • I pazzi • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (trans. of The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether 1845)
51 • Passioni puritate • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (trans. of Feathertop: A Moralized Legend 1852)
74 • Il fantasma dell'Opera (abridged) • [The Phantom of the Opera] • short fiction by Gaston Leroux (trans. of Phantom of the Opera (abridged) 1971)
148 • Il mago (excerpt) • short fiction by W. Somerset Maugham (trans. of The Magician (excerpt) 1908) [as by Somerset Maugham]
164 • Freaks • short story by Tod Robbins (trans. of Spurs 1923)
186 • La pericolosa partita • non-genre • short fiction by Richard Edward Connell (trans. of The Most Dangerous Game 1924) [as by Richard Connell]
209 • La figlia di Dracula • [Dracula] • short fiction by Bram Stoker (trans. of Dracula's Guest 1914)
225 • L'oro del demonio • short story by
Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet
(trans. of The Devil and Daniel Webster 1936)

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Source	Status	Verifier	Date
OCLC/Worldcat	Verified	Zapp	2022-11-22 09:29:35

Publication: Al cinema con il mostro. Volume primo

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