Regarding Terminal: The Play:
My co-writer, the renowned playwright Roy C. Booth, pointed something out to me tonight. He said, “Should the play sell out, it will be the first such hard cover offering to do so from a recognized press since the play adaptation of Dracula. And you have to go waaaaay back for that one (think Bela Lugosi’s or John Carradine’s stage productions well before the film in 1931.”
So let’s make American Theatrical History, folks. Please order a copy.
And remember, if you order it from Horror Mall, you get a free chapbook called Stone Tears, which features Nelson LeHorn from Dark Hollow and deals with the Susquehanna River petroglyphs and powwow magic gone bad.
That would be very cool.
That’s too cool. I’m sure it will sell out soon.
I think this play also makes history by being the only play with references to carpet dick.
HA, I was just trying to remember the other day what story carpet dick was from, a true classic! The other reference I was trying to remember which story it came from was~ a dirty sanchez, still have not figured that one out yet.
Not trying to rain on your parade Brian but what is the average print run for a hardcover play adaptation, any idea? What was the print run for the play adaptation of Dracula?
Done !!
Ooooo… (Do you want to tell him, Brian, or should I?)
I ordered mine. Wouldn’t miss it. Now there’s the possibility of extra collectibility!
Tod: I don’t know.
Roy: Sure, go ahead!
Tod, I think you’re thinking about the beginning of Kill Whitey.
That’s pretty cool.
I don’t know the print run Dracula (the play) but it was probably greater than 300 limited edition copies.
But, really, any hardcover run of a play selling out? That’s very cool.
Mamet and Pinter are gonna put out a hit on you guys.
Dracula in it’s first play incarnation was a massive on stage hit, and not limited by any means. However, the Stoker estate sued, regained control of the copyright, a great remaining copies were destroyed/bought out, and then destroyed, and the estate then limited the distribution of the script to primarily professional theatre companies. In any event, it’s been a loooooooooooonng time since anything like this has happened at any scale.
Traditionally plays, regardless of their pedigree, are published long after they’ve been presented on stage, usually in a large market, such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Minneapolis, London, e t al, with accompanying favorble reviews and such. A hardcover release from the get go is utterly unheard of, unless, of course, self-published. (Hardcover editions usually appear only after the play has been out for ten years, is a Broadway smash, and/or is a book club offering…)
And, yes, having ANY play have this kind of print run in hardcover nowadays with this much chance of selling out quickly is phenomenal. Especially one that hasn’t even been produced yet…
Now, as to “carpet dick”…
Just put my order in.
What’s with the carpet dick?
“Carpet Dick” is something from TERMINAL. The phrase stems from a conversation between Tommy, Sherm, and everyone else in the break room at the foundry. To say more would involve spoilers.