We Belong Dead has just unleashed a whopper of an edition on actor extraordinaire Christopher Lee.
The 294-pg Christopher Lee: Cinema's Prince of Darkness, edited by Darrell Buxton and Eric McNaughton, delves into the thespian's captivating career and massive queue of movies, many stemming from Hammer and Amicus. With this, readers receive a plentiful rundown of Lee's costars and collaborators, including Peter Cushing, Boris Karloff, Roger Moore, Richard Lester, Patrick Macnee, Sammy Davis Jr., Vincent Price, Tim Burton, Terence Fisher, Peter Jackson, Edward Woodward, Anthony Schaffer, George Lucas, Mario Bava and Jess Franco (to name but a few).
The authors who inspired Lee's indelible, character interpretations are also referenced: Bram Stoker, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sax Rohmer, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Alexandre Dumas, Dennis Wheatley and Ian Fleming, Lee's legendary cousin.
To top things off, the book contains over a thousand striking images, as well as a gallery of Lee-covered magazines. What more can one ask?
Christopher Lee: Cinema's Prince of Darkness is available in both paperback and hardback and comes in one's choice of three variant covers (as shown above), each rendered by one of the following artists: Mark Armstrong, Josh Ryals and Brux.
Lee was (and shall remain) one of the greatest and most noted performers of our time, with an unforgettable presence that encompasses every genre. There's no better way to pay one's respect to his luminous legacy than to purchase this scrupulous eulogy.
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