title: The Late Great Creature: A Novel
author:  Brock Brower 
description: "It's a wonderful book . . . like a circus with several brilliant performances going on at the same time . . . a real breaking through. I don't think anybody ever again will be able to dabble politely in mixing 'real life' and fiction."  <b>Joan Didion</b><br /><br />"A lost classic is rediscovered, repackaged, and preserved as a feast for a new generation of readers. The Late Great Creature is the history of a horror-film star and a treatise on human frailty and the innate human urge to seek the sublime through the grotesque. Brock Brower created a brilliantly observed and wholly synchronous work of art 40 years ago; now it is back to be savored and marveled at anew."  <b>James Ellroy</b><br /><br />"The way the book skewers society's obsession with celebrity culture is even more valid today than when it was written, proving that great art stands the test of time...best-selling author James Ellroy called the novel, 'A lost classic to be rediscovered, repackaged, and preserved as a feast for a new generation. Brock Brower created a brilliantly observed and wholly synchronous work of art 40 years ago; now it is back to be savored and marveled at anew.' Amen."  <b><i>Forbes</i></b><br /><br />"First published 40 years ago, Brower's fervent novel, a 'study' of fictional horror movie icon Simon Moro, comes off just as perplexing, thorny, and periodically miraculous today as it must have in 1971 . . . Brower funnels low culture into high literature with devil-may-care abandon . . . it's a fierce disappointment the films aren't real."  <b><i>Booklist</i></b><br /><br />"A cult novel that amounts to a loving satiric tribute to cinema schlockmeister Roger Corman . . . the story winds back on itself to earlier times in a manner that 'suggests a younger Nabokov who has been nurtured on a diet of creepy old movies."  <b><i>New York Post</i></b><br /><br />"<i>The Late Great Creature</i> remains a warped mirror lovingly polished with dark lyricism. Brower's novel may now have a chance to become part of all our bad dreams. The good part."  <b>Huffington Post</b><br /><br />"Brower has a gift for calibrating the proportions of horror, humor, historic detail, and pop surrealism in a way that makes this unlikely potion work. The novel's dazzling verbal surface bursts with shocking moments of significant action."  <b><i>Santa Barbara Independent</i></b>
zlib_text: Copyright © 1977, Kenneth Bulmer
  
  
  Alan Burt Akers has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and
  Patents Act 1988, to be identified as the Author of this work.
  
  
  First published by Daw Books, Inc. in 1977.
  
  
  This Edition published in 2007 by Mushroom eBooks, an imprint of Mushroom
  Publishing, Bath, BA1
  
  
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