Like the Cinecrypt edition of Nosferatu, this volume does not have an artist or writer credit (I assume it is Ash Redburn) and has no publication date (the kickstarter for it was completed in 2024). Indeed, the body of the Cinecrypt Nosferatu is in this volume. Hardback and, at over 400 pages, the volume takes from several films and weaves them into a centuries long story, loosely stitched together.
It bookends with scenes from Last Man On Earth and moves through Nosferatu into a world where we meet the Man in the Beaver Hat and the Phantom of the Opera (the latter meeting Kinski’s Nosferatu/Dracula and controlling Cesare from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari). Other vampire films that are used are used are Vampyr, Count Dracula’s Great Love, Slaughter of the Vampires and Playgirls and the Vampire.
The art is lovely and it was nice to see classic (and not so classic) vampire films repurposed this way. I linked the Cinecrypt website at the head of the review but to get the volume you will have to go to Etsy - it isn’t cheap, but it is a massive tome and I think deserving of a place in vampire fans’ collections. 7 out of 10.
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