I Read Movies – A Nightmare on Elm Street, Parts 1-3

I Read Movies – A Nightmare on Elm Street, Parts 1-3

Just in time for the Halloween season, host of the I Read Movies podcast Paxton Holley dives into a very special horror novelization that covers not one, but three movies in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Written by Jeffrey Cooper in 1987, The Nightmares on...
I Read Movies – Gremlins

I Read Movies – Gremlins

Last Year we joined Host Paxton Holley on his I Read Movies podcast to talk about the wacky novelization of Gremlins written by George Gipe and published in 1984. Gipe is sort of notorious for his short but amazing body of adaptation work including the tie-ins for The...
I Read Movies – The Lost Boys

I Read Movies – The Lost Boys

On the latest episode of the I Read Movies podcast, host Paxton Holley is joined by pop culture historian Noel Thingvall to dig into the 1987 novelization of The Lost Boys adapted by the talented and prolific author Craig Shaw Gardner. Copies of Gardner’s...
WTF did I just read: Ghostbusters

WTF did I just read: Ghostbusters

One of the largest hurdles in collecting movie novelizations is a devastating mixture of rarity and expense. Though on the whole, movie novelizations tend to be fairly cheap and moderately easy to find in better used book stores, there are a decent number of highly...
From Book to Screen to Book Again

From Book to Screen to Book Again

Adaptation is a strange animal. How stories come to be presented in general can be an odd process, especially in modern times where collaboration and the lending of ideas from one writer to another is common. Or when you consider that most film scripts these days pass...