This is a Special Signed, Numbered issue of the First Edition of this book. With an introduction by Robert Bloch. Tipped in photo plate of a headless statue (authors signature). To the reverse, Schow inscribes "This photo, 'Headless", appears exclusively in the 26 copy signed and lettered edition of Crypt Orchids' of which this is copy pc.....signed 1998: to the lower edge Schow writes "Think of Iron spikes and headless acolytes." This copy was presented to the author Robert Bloch, who wrote the Introduction to this book. Crime. Pychos. Trashed relationships. Tainted love. Murder. Sinister plots. Evil connivances. Men in suites with a Plan. Welcome to Crypt Orchids, where you'll also meet a cantankerous celebrity man-fish, a horror movie host who deals in the real thing, persnickety aliens with testicle heads, a werewolf with a prosthetic paw....Enter and be enthralled! Schow also adpated into a one-act play a short story of Bloch's, which appears in this volume. David J. Schow is the author of, The Kill Rift and The Shaft, Eye, Wild Hairs as well as several collections of short stories, including Seeing Red and Lost Angels (both reprinted by Alexander Publishing), & Black Leather Required, his current Bulllets of Rain. He edited the landmark splatterpunk anthology of "cinema horror," Silver Scream, and he edited two volumes of Robert Bloch's stories, The Lost Bloch, Volume 1: The Devil With You and Volume 2: Hell on Earth. Schow's expertise concerning the Classic Vintage Sci Fi television series The Outer Limits, which ran 1963-65, is displayed in Outer Limits Companion. Schow has also written widely for television and film; Leatherface and Freddy Krueger;" screenplays for the third Chainsaw Massacre movie, Critters 3 and Critters 4; The Crow, a screenplay, The Furthest Place for James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment and 20th Century-Fox. Also teleplays, including an adaptation of his award-winning short story "Red Light" for The Hunger and "The Exile" episode for Perversions Of Science. A Fine copy with ribbon marker, Dw illustrated, not price clipped, black gilt stamped slipcase. 8 vo, 235 pages. Click on title for image

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