Adorable

By Tim Lucas
Winner of 2008 Saturn Award for Special Achievement
Independent Publishers Book Award
Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award
International Horror Guild Award
Jason Pichonsky writes: "At the initial release of MARIO BAVA ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK, you were soliciting photos of readers with the 'Black Bible of Bava.' I'm not sure if you still are, but, a year later, I just wanted to add my photo to the mix.
Tim replies: Thank you for the heartwarming photo and your kind and generous words, Jason. Certainly, we are still interested in receiving pictures of proud and satisfied fans with their Bava books. I didn't do any promotional traveling for the book -- it's hard enough to travel with the book! -- and this way, we can get some idea of personal impact it's had.
Labels: Jason Pichonsky, Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark
During the past year, we've fielded some inquiries about when my mammoth tome MARIO BAVA ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK might be available through Amazon.com. Well, it's available there now -- just in time for the holidays -- and here's the link to the sales page.
The International Horror Guild Awards for works from 2007 were announced Friday, October 31. PETER STRAUB, named earlier as the year's LIVING LEGEND, was honored in an essay by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz (http://horroraward.org/peter_straub.html or download as a document: http://horroraward.org/peter_straub.doc.)Labels: 2007 International Horror Guild Awards, Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark, Tim Lucas
Labels: Barbara Steele, Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark
A fellow who goes by the singular name of Brett (who also moderates the RUE MORGUE message boards under the moniker "KISS Fan") was one of numerous friendly folks who visited with Donna and me at Lamberto Bava's table at Cinema Wasteland a couple of weekends ago. On the RUE MORGUE boards, and also on his MySpace page, Brett has posted a lot of great pictures commemorating his numerous meetings and trophies from the convention -- including this enviable multi-signed title page from his copy of MARIO BAVA ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK! Here you see my signature along with those of Lamberto Bava, John Saxon and Brett Halsey, which raises the question... "Is there anyone out there who's managed to collect even more signatures of Bava alumni in their copy?"
Labels: Brett Halsey, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, Dario Argento, Donna Lucas, John Saxon, Lamberto Bava, Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark, Tim Lucas
"Nurse Moan-eek" (Linda Wylie) and David Colton present Tim Lucas with the Rondo Award at Wonderfest 2008. Photo by Eileen Colton.Labels: 6th Annual Rondo Awards, David Colton, Linda Wylie, Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark, Nurse Moan-eek, Tim Lucas
Donna and I recently returned from Wonderfest in Louisville, Kentucky -- which has become such a favorite getaway for us and a close group of friends that we've taken to reuniting twice more each year just to share good company, food and laughter. It's taken me awhile to post these images, which actually date back to last year. This first picture shows Randy Fox of Nashville, Tennessee, whose world was clearly rocked by his first gander at the Bava book -- at the first Wonderfest Reunion last November. Thanks to Jeffrey Nelson for taking the photo.Since returning home from the Saturn Awards, Donna and I thought we had seen the last of the award nominations for MARIO BAVA ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK -- so imagine our surprise when we learned today that the Bava book has been nominated in the Non-fiction category for the 2007 International Horror Guild Awards!
Labels: 2007 International Horror Guild Awards, Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark, Ramsey Campbell, Tim Lucas
Labels: 34th Annual Saturn Awards, Donna Lucas, John Saxon, Tim and Donna Lucas, Tim Lucas
When it comes to classic monster magazines, Jim Clatterbaugh's MONSTERS FROM THE VAULT is in a league unto itself. Published twice a year, MFTV is in many ways the magazine that FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND should have matured into. Its exclusive focus is classic horror cinema (from the silents through the 1960s) and it manages to address a popular readership while at the same time presenting intelligent, well-written articles on such interesting arcana as Bela Lugosi's controversial performance as the Frankenstein Monster in FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN, memoirs of various stage productions starring the greats of classic horror, and the cinematography of Golden Age monsterfests. Many of VIDEO WATCHDOG's favorite guest contributors also appear regularly in MFTV: among them Tom Weaver, Greg Mank, Gary D. Rhodes, Gary L. Prange and the unsinkable Bob Burns. Every issue is also impeccably designed, with a glossy black-and-white interior and a typically breathtaking cover that brings the FM style of monster cover into the 21st century.Labels: Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark, Monsters From the Vault
Last Tuesday, June 24, Donna and I were in Los Angeles to attend the 34th Annual Saturn Awards and to accept the Saturn Award for Special Achievement for our work on MARIO BAVA ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK. The award was presented to us by John Saxon, the star of Bava's seminal giallo LA RAGAZZA CHE SAPEVA TROPPO, aka THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (1963), aka EVIL EYE. John's speech was exceptional and both it and our acceptance speech was recorded. We'll be posting it, or a link to it, here in the days ahead.
But it got still more surreal. When Guillermo del Toro (winner of this year's George Pal Memorial Award) showed up at the after-party, he gave me a big hug the moment he saw my face and kept numerous interviewers and other people waiting for a moment of his time as he talked to Donna, Charlie Largent and me about how important he believes the Bava book to be.
Labels: 34th Annual Saturn Awards, Alfredo Leone, Donna Lucas, Guillermo del Toro, John Saxon, Mario Bava, Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark, Tim and Donna Lucas, Tim Lucas
Here is a link to an article about Mario Bava by Hans Schmid (the author of FENSTER SUM TOD: DER RAUM IM HORRORFILM -- a book about outer space in horror cinema), featured in today's edition of the German media/culture online publication Telepolis. The article will be continued tomorrow in an installment focusing on the current German ban on IM BLUTRAUSCH DES SATANS, the German version of BAY OF BLOOD, which will either be renewed or dropped in about six weeks from now, on the 25th anniversary of its instatement. But this first installment, which runs several interesting pages, mentions MARIO BAVA ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK and its author quite a bit; indeed, Hans writes that it calls the ATCOTD "THE best film book of 2007 and one of the most beautiful film books of all time."
Labels: Hans Schmid, Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark, Telepolis