Forgotten Horrors 4: Dreams That Money Can Buy
Michael H. Price first began mining the Forgotten Horrors lode in 1975, in collaboration with the film historian-turned-filmmaker George E. Turner. The first such book, published in 1979, has become a perennial and influential collection, casting an unprecedented light onto ill-explored corners of film history. Forgotten Horrors yielded a sequel in 2001, then a third volume in 2003. This fourth book expands the overall sweep to a period spanning 1929 1948. Price, a veteran newspaperman and founder of Texas  Fort Worth Film Festival, has recently completed the collaborative graphic novel Fishhead, a horrific Southern Gothic; Mantan the Funnyman, a biography of the pioneering black comedian Mantan Moreland; and Daynce of the Peckerwoods, a study of Texas  indigenous music-making traditions. Price & Turner s graphic novella, The Ancient Southwest & Other Dispatches from a Cruel Frontier, has recently arrived from Texas Christian University Press. Price s weekly film commentaries for The Business Press of Fort Worth can be found, both fresh and preserved, on the Web at www.fortworthbusinesspress.com. John Wooley, a prolific novelist, journalist and scriptwriter, joined Price as co-author of the Forgotten Horrors books following the death of George Turner in 1999. The Price & Wooley projects also include The Big Book of Biker Flicks (2004), Forgotten Horrors 3: Dr. Turner s House of Horrors (2003), and a recurring Forgotten Horrors column for Fangoria magazine. Wooley s recent solo books include Ghost Band, From the Blue Devils to Red Dirt: The Colors of Oklahoma Music, Awash in the Blood and Dark Within, in addition to a well-received reissue of his breakthrough collaborative novel of 1982, Old Fears. Wooley s radio program, Swing on This, airs weekly over Tulsa s KWGS FM (www.kwgs.org) as a showcase for Western swing and other South-by-Southwestern musical forms. Updates: www.johnwooley.com.