The devil's playground / Craig Russell.
Publication details: London : Constable, 2023.Description: 453 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780349135274 (paperback)
- Horror films -- Fiction
- Blessing and cursing -- Fiction
- Rumor -- Fiction
- Actors -- Death -- Fiction
- Film historians -- Fiction
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction
- Silent films -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
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"Where horror is silent..." --Front cover.
1927: Mary Rourke-a Hollywood studio fixer-is called urgently to the palatial home of Norma Carlton, one of the most recognizable stars in American silent film. Norma has been working on the secret film everyone is openly talking about... a terrifying horror picture called The Devil's Playground that is rumoured to have unleashed a curse on everyone involved in the production. Mary finds Norma's cold, dead body, and she wonders for just a moment if these dark rumours could be true. 1967: Paul Conway, a journalist and self-professed film aficionado, is on the trail of a tantalizing rumour. He has heard that a single copy of The Devil's Playground -a Holy Grail for film buffs-may exist. He knows his Hollywood history and he knows the film endured myriad tragedies and ended up lost to time.
