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Anthology of horror tales inspired by the Lucio Fulci Trilogy Of Death.
Stories by: B. E. Dantalion, Glynn Owen Barras, Sarah Walker, John Edwin Buja, Richard Alan Scott, Andrew Coulthard, John Chadwick, David Voyles, Michael Housel, David Agranoff, Anthony Trevino, Nora B. Peevy.
Curated by Raffaele Pezzella
Published by Eighth Tower
Language: English
Paperback: 319 pages
Weight:1.21 pounds (0,5 kg)
Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches (15 x 2 x 23 cm)
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Lucio Fulci: a name any true fan of horror celluloid nightmares will know and hold in high esteem. His extensive filmography includes works in the comedy, thriller, giallo, spaghetti western, and, of course, horror genres. But perhaps he is best known for his Gates of Hell trilogy, beginning with City of the Living Dead [1980], followed by The Beyond [1981], and The House by the Cemetery later on in the same year. Logic within his cinematic, surrealistic and horrific universe is a perverse quality, akin to a dream state in which in the illogical takes centre stage yet, within the context of the film itself, is contradictorily logical. “The Beyond. Stories inspired by the Lucio Fulci Death Trilogy” is the second in a series of anthologies published by Eighth Tower Publishing House, revolving around genre writers and directors who set the parameters and frameworks of the kind of tales and movies that we prefer to read and watch (the first volume was dedicated to HP Lovecraft). Here you will another varied selection of interpretations inspired by the Gates of Hell film trilogy but, in case you may think that they’ll be slavish imitations of the original stories, I can assure you that this is far from the case. Many do elaborate on themes explicated in the films, but there an equal number that only take the barest of essentials from Fulci’s works and go off tangentially instead. I invite you to barricade yourself into your house, black out the windows, set a fire in the grate, turn on a dim light by which to read, stockpile some weapons perhaps, and settle yourself into a comfortable chair and let these eleven tales of terror accompany you into the small hours of the night. As you do so, keep an ear out for any unusual noises – who knows, maybe on that particular night the Gates of Hell may indeed be finally opened and the undead swarm across the land to initiate the end of the world.
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The Beyond (Book + CD)
The Beyond. Stories And Music Inspired By The Lucio Fulci Death Trilogy includes:
1) Anthology of horror tales inspired by the Lucio Fulci Trilogy Of Death.
Paperback: 319 pages
Dimensions:6 x 0.8 x 9 inches (15 x 2 x 23 )
Weight:1.21 pounds (0,5 kg.)
Featuring: B. E. Dantalion, Glynn Owen Barras, Sarah Walker, John Edwin Buja, Richard Alan Scott, Andrew Coulthard, John Chadwick, David Voyles, Michael Housel, David Agranoff, Anthony Trevino, Nora B. Peevy.
Curated by Raffaele Pezzella
Cover illustration by John Chadwick
Editing by Parry Milton
2) CD compilation "The Beyond. Music Inspired By The Lucio Fulci Death Trilogy"
Limited Edition Compact Disc (6 panels digipack)
Featuring: Nàresh Ran, Mario Lino Stancati, Kloob, DuoSerpe + Progetto No Name, Bad Girl
Mastering by Sonologyst
Artwork by John Chadwick
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The Cinematic Collection (Argento, Fulci, Cronenberg)
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Lucio Fulci, born in Rome in 1927, remains as controversial in death as he was in life. A gifted craftsman with a sharp tongue and a wicked sense of dark humor, Fulci achieved some measure of notoriety for his gore epics of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Abandoning his early career as a med student, Fulci entered the film industry as a screenwriter and assistant director, working alongside such directors as Steno and Riccardo Freda. Fulci quickly established himself as a prolific craftsman adept at musicals, comedies and westerns. In 1979, Fulci's film making career hit a high point with him breaking into the international market with Zombi 2 (1979), an in-name-only sequel to George A. Romero's Zombi (1978), which had been released in Italy as 'Zombi'. With its flamboyant imagery, graphic gore and moody atmospherics, the film established Fulci as a gore director par excellence. Over the next three years, Fulci plied his trade with finesse and flair, rivaling even the popularity of his "opponent" Dario Argento. Bleak horrors are transformed into bloody poetry - Fulci's loving camera technique, and the decayed splendour of his art design, make the films more than just a gross endurance test. His opus latifundium, his “real estate” is the “Trilogy of Death”: Paura nella città dei morti viventi (City of the Living Dead, 1980), a Lovecraftian story of a priest who hangs himself thus opening the gates of hell; L’aldila (The Beyond, 1981), about a hotel which is a gate to hell, and Quella villa accanto al cimitero (House by the Cemetery, 1981), about one Dr Freudstein who, by transplanting parts of his victims to his body for over a century has managed to stay alive. These films are about intrinsic quality, texture, consistency. For this reason they affect sense rather than intellect – confusion, disgust, suffering, delight at the pangs of horror are the qualities these films evoke. The screen is not the marker between actual and virtual but, in Paul Virilio’s words, the “osmotic membrane”. Or in the Gilles Deleuze’s words “not in a different world but in a link between humanity and the world…to believe in this as in the impossible, the unthinkable, which nonetheless cannot be but thought”. By the 1990s, Fulci went on a hiatus with film making for further health and personal reasons as the Italian cinema market went into a further decline. Lucio Fulci passed away at his home on March 13, 1996 at the age of 68.
This new Eighth Tower Records project, dedicated to the Lucio Fulci’s “Trilogy Of Death”, a unique and unrepeatable corpus in the history of Italian “supernatural cinema”, tries to imagine an alternative soundtrack for those movies. The several souls of Fulci’s movies are evoked by the musicians - Nàresh Ran, Mario Lino Stancati, Daniel Ferreira (Kloob), Leonardo Granchi (Bad Girl), Cristiano Bocci, Paolo Acquaviva (DuoSerpe), Sara Fontana, Dario Arrighi (Progetto No Name) - through a variety of music styles (electroacoustic, dark ambient, concrete music, progressive rock, drone music). Some of them kept in mind the lesson of the master Fabio Frizzi, the well known composer of the original soundtracks, while others escaped any attempt to revive that glorious tradition and interpreted Fulci’s horror universe in a totally contemporary and unedited way.
Eighth Tower Records continue to release original and rewarding music of the highest quality, and The Beyond – Music Inspired By The Lucio Fulci Death Trilogy, is no exception. Featuring 14 tracks from a range of talented musicians, across a number of genres and styles – including dark ambient, drone and noise, to name just a few – this impressive album is an alternative / imagined soundtrack to Lucio Fulci’s “Trilogy Of Death” horror movies. As usual, Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst) has done an amazing job of curating this album – each track offers something different, yet they all work together perfectly to create a masterpiece of dark and eerie soundscapes. Wonderful!
Breaking down the barrier between the music and its audience, and inviting listeners from wherever they come from to immerse themselves in the chaos and contradictions of Indonesian culture. Eighth Tower Records
this album is a collection of quite differing but, at the same time, related and same-minded artists and musical trends, but in general, this compiled album is nothing but a top-product! Eighth Tower Records
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This, friends, is my only reported “favorite album of 2021.” This album- granted, an anthology- has so many textures. I noted in a 3-track ‘spanse being reminded of Four Tet (albeit beatless), Trepaningritualen (plus harmonica), and Acid Mothers Temple (sans guitar). The Sonologyst is a curatorial genius. Creativity rules this world. cielocanth
In the music of Paul Jordan, digitally manipulated field recordings become striking electronic songs that feel eerie and surreal. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 7, 2020
