In this candid memoir, horror legend Stuart Gordon gives a vivid account of his remarkable life, from a student manning the barricades during the civil unrest of the 1960s, via an infamous extended stint as an experimental theater maverick that included his arrest on obscenity charges for a satirical 1968 reimagining of Peter Pan, to ultimately becoming an iconic figure in cult cinema. Along with actors Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, producer Brian Yuzna, and screenwriter Dennis Paoli, Gordon shocked the world with his wickedly witty 1985 debut feature Re-Animator. The smash hit film immediately established Gordon as the pre-eminent cinematic interpreter of legendary horror author H.P. Lovecraft. He went on to undertake a succession of horror, science fiction, and thriller productions that saw him working across the globe, from Italy (Castle Freak), Hungary (Daughter of Darkness) and Australia (Fortress), to Ireland (Space Truckers) and Spain (Dagon). Gordon recalls a wealth of an
