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Post by Calenture on Apr 3, 2008 14:26:05 GMT
 Cover uncredited - anyone know?First published 1976; this Star edition 1978 I'd forgotten I had this one. Another recent find. The cover looks similar to those of Dr Cristopher Evans' anthologies Mind at Bay and Mind in Chains. I know that we were discussing who'd done these at the old board. Justin had suggested John Holmes - responsible for the covers on the penultimate printing of the Fontana horror anthologies - as the artist for Mind in Chains. Possible, but I'm not sure. I could imagine Holmes painting the one below, yet not the one above - yet they're similar. Anyway, Jeffrey Caine has a number of screenplays on his CV, including The Constant Gardener (2005) and An Unsuitable Job For a Woman (one episode, 2001). Did Franklin post a review of Dempsey and Makepiece by Caine? Caine did write for that series. The Cold Room has been pushed as a horror novel, but on inspection seems more like Ann Frank's diary meets Kafka - which I guess is nightmare enough for most. From the cover: "Carla Martin is a volatile, bitchy, clever and irreverent 15-year-old schoolgirl with a fertile imagination. Too fertile for her own good. "She is left holed up in a seedy East Berlin hotel while her father, an author, goes out to research a book. "The eerie silence of her tiny hotel bedroom is interrupted by the sound of a slow, furtive tapping. "She searches behind the wardrobe and discovers a nightmare world where imagination and reality blur. Her perceptions become more and more distorted as this chilling portrait of adolescent disintegration draws towards its horrifying climax." "...an extremely spooky novel. A very clever and disturbing piece of writing." Daily Mail"Utterly Absorbing from first to last." Publishers Weekly"...there is real talent here." The Observer This book was made into a film starring George Segal in 1984. The other title for both book and film is The Prisoner. |
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