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THIRST: An Inheritance of Evil [author JOHN PINKNEY]
THIS IS THE extraordinary novel that inspired one of the most discussed movies in horror film history. Director Rod Hardy's brilliant interpretation of John Pinkney's original screenplay won THIRST the Best-in-Category prize at 1980's Asia-Pacific Film Festival.
Leonard Maltin, in his Movie Guide, described THIRST as a 'strange, stylish, chilling tale.' And the sheer originality of the ideas underlying the story bring rave reviews from websites worldwide. 'One of the most original vampire films ever made...would make Roman Polanski proud' [Lancifier, Kindertrauma]. 'An imaginative and entertaining upgrade of the vampire myth. In the hands of screenwriter John Pinkney, the gothic trappings and cliches are thrown out the window.' [Eccentric Cinema.]
Pinkney's eerie suspense novel centers on Kate Davis, 27-year-old owner of an online cosmetics empire. When Kate is kidnapped - following the celebrated scene concerning a cat and a milk carton - she assumes her captors want money, and offers to pay a large ransom. Only gradually does she learn that the kidnappers are already breathtakingly rich. And that what they really want from her is sinister beyond her imagining.
THIRST the novel should be read at least twice. First for its unrelenting tension and profound mystery. But then, for its dark explorations of other worlds, other eras, and other modes of human consciousness and conduct.
Even after the story ends, the evil dream continues. In a nightmare-riven Appendix, Kate's kidnappers favor us with the details of what they actually do, and how they do it.
The book also contains posters...a gallery of scenes from the film...and author Pinkney's recollections, not only of how he came to write THIRST, but of how its producer and director prematurely pronounced him dead - broadcasting their deeply-felt funeral tributes to the world.
ALSO BY JOHN PINKNEY IN EBOOKS:
* Australia's Strangest Mysteries#1 and #2 * A Paranormal File *The Girl Who Touched Infinity [young-adult novel] * The Key and the Fountain *Haunted: the ghosts that share our world *The Mary Celeste Syndrome: and 18 other tantalizing mysteries *Alien Airships Over Old America: and 18 other tantalizing mysteries
Leonard Maltin, in his Movie Guide, described THIRST as a 'strange, stylish, chilling tale.' And the sheer originality of the ideas underlying the story bring rave reviews from websites worldwide. 'One of the most original vampire films ever made...would make Roman Polanski proud' [Lancifier, Kindertrauma]. 'An imaginative and entertaining upgrade of the vampire myth. In the hands of screenwriter John Pinkney, the gothic trappings and cliches are thrown out the window.' [Eccentric Cinema.]
Pinkney's eerie suspense novel centers on Kate Davis, 27-year-old owner of an online cosmetics empire. When Kate is kidnapped - following the celebrated scene concerning a cat and a milk carton - she assumes her captors want money, and offers to pay a large ransom. Only gradually does she learn that the kidnappers are already breathtakingly rich. And that what they really want from her is sinister beyond her imagining.
THIRST the novel should be read at least twice. First for its unrelenting tension and profound mystery. But then, for its dark explorations of other worlds, other eras, and other modes of human consciousness and conduct.
Even after the story ends, the evil dream continues. In a nightmare-riven Appendix, Kate's kidnappers favor us with the details of what they actually do, and how they do it.
The book also contains posters...a gallery of scenes from the film...and author Pinkney's recollections, not only of how he came to write THIRST, but of how its producer and director prematurely pronounced him dead - broadcasting their deeply-felt funeral tributes to the world.
ALSO BY JOHN PINKNEY IN EBOOKS:
* Australia's Strangest Mysteries#1 and #2 * A Paranormal File *The Girl Who Touched Infinity [young-adult novel] * The Key and the Fountain *Haunted: the ghosts that share our world *The Mary Celeste Syndrome: and 18 other tantalizing mysteries *Alien Airships Over Old America: and 18 other tantalizing mysteries
202 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1979
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About the author
John Pinkney
34 books46 followersJOHN PINKNEY is a bestselling Australian author, screenwriter and journalist.
*His newest ebook is the novel Grave Injustice: An Afterlife Odyssey.
This dark, pacy science fiction thriller draws on John's career-long research into the paranormal - and the strange phenomena that may occur beyond the barriers of death.
Over the years, he has spoken to numerous people who clinically died and were then resuscitated - returning to describe landscapes and events of breathtaking beauty. The testimonies of these returnees from the brink inspired John to write Grave Injustice.
The narrative extends far beyond NDEs (near-death experiences.) It's set in Sydney and tropical Queensland; describing human love, courage and sacrifice, both earthly and transcendental.
Ranged against the young lovers are a corporate cell of scientifically accomplished soul-thieves,who draw their ideas from Dante's nine circles of Hell.
Terrifyingly, the novel portrays brutal conflict between good and evil. And it's hard, for a host of reasons, to predict which will prevail.
John Pinkney's other ebooks include Haunted: the Ghosts that Share Our World...Australia's Strangest Mysteries #1 and #2...A Paranormal File: An Australian Investigator's Casebook...The Mary Celeste Syndrome...Alien Airships Over Old America...Thirst: an Inheritance of Evil...The Girl Who Touched Infinity...The Key and the Fountain.
John's original screenplay Thirst, directed by Rod Hardy and produced by Anthony I. Ginnane won Best Horror
Film prize at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival. His 3-act drama, The Face in the Mirror, was co-awarded Best Stage Play in the General Motors/Elizabethan Theatre Trust competition.
He has written several hundred drama episodes for TV - and his paperbooks, including such titles as Great Australian Mysteries 1 & 2, Haunted, Unexplained and Unsolved have been numerously reprinted. His 3-volume Mazeworld series has appeared in USA and UK and in translation through Europe. His logic puzzle books Think!, Think Again! and Wordgames have also been published internationally.
For many years John was a prominent writer with Australia's Age newspaper, subsequently moving his column, Pinkney Place to Rupert Murdoch's national daily The Australian. Here he covered the century's most extraordinary UFO case: the disappearance without trace of young pilot Frederick Valentich, after radioing Flight Services that he was being 'orbited' by a gigantic craft. [full story and photographs are in A Paranormal File.]
John has had a lifelong interest in the unsolved and unexplained. His fascination with the unknown took its most practical form when, with lawyer-friend Peter Norris, he co-founded the organization known today as VUFORS - the Victorian UFO Research Society. John and Peter collaborated to host the weekly radio series The Truth Behind UFOs and Do You Believe in Ghosts?
Over the years John Pinkney's broadcasts and columns have attracted a large mail from listeners and readers describing their brushes with the bizarre. Readers of his books continue the input.
*His newest ebook is the novel Grave Injustice: An Afterlife Odyssey.
This dark, pacy science fiction thriller draws on John's career-long research into the paranormal - and the strange phenomena that may occur beyond the barriers of death.
Over the years, he has spoken to numerous people who clinically died and were then resuscitated - returning to describe landscapes and events of breathtaking beauty. The testimonies of these returnees from the brink inspired John to write Grave Injustice.
The narrative extends far beyond NDEs (near-death experiences.) It's set in Sydney and tropical Queensland; describing human love, courage and sacrifice, both earthly and transcendental.
Ranged against the young lovers are a corporate cell of scientifically accomplished soul-thieves,who draw their ideas from Dante's nine circles of Hell.
Terrifyingly, the novel portrays brutal conflict between good and evil. And it's hard, for a host of reasons, to predict which will prevail.
John Pinkney's other ebooks include Haunted: the Ghosts that Share Our World...Australia's Strangest Mysteries #1 and #2...A Paranormal File: An Australian Investigator's Casebook...The Mary Celeste Syndrome...Alien Airships Over Old America...Thirst: an Inheritance of Evil...The Girl Who Touched Infinity...The Key and the Fountain.
John's original screenplay Thirst, directed by Rod Hardy and produced by Anthony I. Ginnane won Best Horror
Film prize at the Asia-Pacific Film Festival. His 3-act drama, The Face in the Mirror, was co-awarded Best Stage Play in the General Motors/Elizabethan Theatre Trust competition.
He has written several hundred drama episodes for TV - and his paperbooks, including such titles as Great Australian Mysteries 1 & 2, Haunted, Unexplained and Unsolved have been numerously reprinted. His 3-volume Mazeworld series has appeared in USA and UK and in translation through Europe. His logic puzzle books Think!, Think Again! and Wordgames have also been published internationally.
For many years John was a prominent writer with Australia's Age newspaper, subsequently moving his column, Pinkney Place to Rupert Murdoch's national daily The Australian. Here he covered the century's most extraordinary UFO case: the disappearance without trace of young pilot Frederick Valentich, after radioing Flight Services that he was being 'orbited' by a gigantic craft. [full story and photographs are in A Paranormal File.]
John has had a lifelong interest in the unsolved and unexplained. His fascination with the unknown took its most practical form when, with lawyer-friend Peter Norris, he co-founded the organization known today as VUFORS - the Victorian UFO Research Society. John and Peter collaborated to host the weekly radio series The Truth Behind UFOs and Do You Believe in Ghosts?
Over the years John Pinkney's broadcasts and columns have attracted a large mail from listeners and readers describing their brushes with the bizarre. Readers of his books continue the input.
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November 24, 2022
A nice written adaptation of the film by its screenwriter, Pinkney, with a nice introduction explaining how the film emerged out of plans he'd already been working on for a novel. It lacks the visual flair of the movie, and the captivating central performance of Chantal Contouri, but it was an engaging read with some nice prose, and a nice reinterpretation of the surrealistic hypnosis dream of the second half, and I continue to love this modernized concept of vampirism.
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