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Metro-Goldwyn-Vampire - A Porter Down Hollywood Mystery
Hardcover
Publisher: BearManor Media
Published: May 19 2026
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.62
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Mark of the Vampire, filmed in 1935 at the all-powerful MGM Studios, Bela Lugosi's bloodsucker Count Mora and other ghouls are revealed, in a surprise finale, to be merely actors.
In Metro-Goldwyn-Vampire, however, the joke is on MGM. A real-life vampire haunts Hollywood, destroying victims with a horrific savagery and an unholy appetite. The vampire's prey of choice: The young actresses who had auditioned for the role of Mark of the Vampire's Luna, the Bat Girl.
Metro-Goldwyn-Vampire provides a colorful, factual re-creation of the shooting of the classic terror film. Spiked into the account is a fictional horror story in which troubleshooter Porter Down does battle with his worst nightmares.
GREGORY WILLIAM MANK is the author of such non-fiction books as It's Alive! The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein; Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: A Haunting Collaboration; and Of Mice and Men: Mental Enfeeblement, Racism and Mercy-Killing in 1939 Hollywood. He's written and narrated the audio commentaries for over a dozen films, including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931); The Black Cat (1934), and Island of Lost Souls and appeared on various documentaries on Hollywood history. The winner of multiple Rondo Awards, he lives with his wife, Barbara, in Delta, Pennsylvania. This is his third Porter Down novel.
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