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If you’re a vintage Hollywood-comedy fan who aspires to be a Groucho-Harpo-Chico completist, Giraffes on Horseback Salad is the book for you. It might be called the best movie the Marx Brothers never made—“movie” in the sense of an elaborately captioned and intricately illustrated storyboard. Even by the standards of that freewheeling medium called the graphic novel, this is an audacious piece of work.
The genesis of Giraffes on Horseback Salad was complicated. Sometime in the mid-1930’s, the celebrated painter Salvador Dalí got it in his head to bring about a Marx Brothers film keyed to the reality-altering agenda of a mysterious Surrealist Woman. Evidently Dalí regarded the Marxes as kindred spirits, and because he was friends with Harpo, he imagined his treatment might get a fair hearing at MGM. Louis B. Mayer, who had no affection for Minnie’s zany sons, gave it the boot.
Surrealist icon Salvador Dali and iconoclast comedians The Marx Brothers planned a never-made film that merged their sensibilities in a sublime mashup of absurdity, surrealism, slapstick, and wit. But the original screenplay was lost until now. It sounds like fan fiction, but it s true: modern art icon Salvador Dali struck up a friendship with chaotic pantomimer Harpo Marx, which led to a proposed film, Giraffes on Horseback Salad. Rejected by MGM studios, the script was thought lost forever. But author Josh Frank found it, and with comedian and writer Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric; Tim and Eric s Zone…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Loved a bold revisit to Shirley Jackson’s Hill House. The writing was fantastic at immersing me within the unease of the house, the clash between characters and Hand’s brilliant capture of the undefinable spaces of Hill House that echoed Jackson’s but retained their own originality. A great psychological horror with all the gothic trappings but a modern setting.
THE FIRST AUTHORISED FOLLOW-UP NOVEL TO THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
'A fitting - and frightening - homage to The Haunting of Hill House ' NEW YORK TIMES 'Full of totemic menace and a heart-in-mouth, can't-look-away frisson' BRIDGET COLLINS 'Beautifully creepy. Welcome back to Hill House' ALIX E. HARROW 'Like Hill House itself, this accomplished tribute stands alone: disturbing and unforgettable' GUARDIAN 'A Haunting on the Hill captures the essence of the original whilst offering something brand new' CARLY REAGON
**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar**
