Most Popular Books by Ed Wood

Meet Ed Wood''s alter ego Glen/Glenda, whose ravishing beauty and musical voice bewitch every male in sight. Impeccably attired in either gender, hired assassin Glen becomes Glenda when it''s time to work. But big trouble starts when Glenda decides to give up the murder racket, take up with a sugar daddy, and finance a sex change operation.

Edward D. Wood, Jr. was a name forgotten in the history of Hollywood until the release of the 1994 Tim Burton biopic, Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp as Ed, and Martin Landau as the horror icon Bela Lugosi, a role for which Landau received the Academy Award. Following service with the U.S. Marines during World War II, Ed followed his dream to Hollywood, hoping to achieve success as a movie director. Ed did realize his goal but his talents did not match his ambitions. Working with practically nonexistent budgets, he directed movies ignored in their day but have since become recognized as cult classics: Glen or Glenda, Bride of The Monster, Orgy of The Dead, and his most "infamous" production: Plan 9 From Outer Space. Barely skimping by on his movie earnings, Ed turned to writing a series of lurid paperbacks with such titles as "Black Lace Drag," "Let Me Die In Drag" and "Devil Girls." His professional decline continued when he worked for a skin magazine publisher in the late 60''s, churning out copy and short fiction in prodigious amounts, an amazing accomplishment considering that by this point Ed Wood had become a serious alcoholic. Edited and with a foreword by Bob Blackburn, a close friend of Ed''s widow Kathy, these later stories penned by Ed Wood have finally been collected in this exclusive volume.

A transvestite assassin with a fur-fetish, on the run from both police and the mob, buys a run-down travelling carnival and goes into hiding with a small-town hooker while his twin personalities -- Glen and Glenda -- continually vie for psychological supremacy. With a supporting cast of hoodlums, predatory queens, rapist farmers, sideshow freaks and corrupt rapist cops, Ed Wood''s first published novel, BLACK LACE DRAG -- also known as Killer In Drag -- moves from scenario to sleazy scenario with all the deranged logic and fetishistic detail of his finest movies.

Which 100 novels represent the finest American literature ever produced? Let this book be your guide. Ordered A-Z by author this latest title in the popular Must-Read series provides a rich resource for your reading. It features 100 titles from 19th century classics: Melville''s Moby Dick and Hawthorne''s The Scarlet Letter, to the 1920s generation: Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner, the Beat generation (Kerouac''s On the Road) to the major writers of today: Toni Morrison (Beloved) Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay), Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections), Donna Tartt (The Secret History) and Barbara Kingsolver (The Poisonwood Bible). All the major figures are covered from Fenimore Cooper to the present day, as well as lesser known and more offbeat writers that you may not yet have discoverd such as Dawn Powell, William Maxwell and Marilynne Robinson. The Read-On suggestions provide up to 500 recommendations for further titles and a long Introduction provides contextual and historical background on American fiction, providing great value and everything you need to expand your range of reading.

Sourdough: The Gold Standard of Bread More and more home bakers are replacing mass-produced breads and commercial yeasts in favor of artisan breads made with wild cultures and natural fermentation. Whether you want to capture your own local yeasts, take advantage of established cultures like San Francisco Sourdough, or simply bake healthier, more natural loaves, you’ll find no better guides than renowned sourdough authorities Ed and Jean Wood. In this updated edition of Classic Sourdoughs, the Woods reveal their newly discovered secret to crafting the perfect loaf: by introducing a unique culture-proofing step and adjusting the temperature of the proofs, home bakers can control the sourness and leavening like never before. The reward? Fresh, hot sourdough emerging from the oven just the way you like it—every time. Starting with their signature Basic Sourdough loaf, the Woods present recipes featuring rustic grains and modern flavors, including Herb Spelt Bread, Prarie Flax Bread, and Malt Beer Bread, along with new no-knead versions of classics like White French Bread. They round out the collection with recipes for homemade baguettes, bagels, English muffins, and cinnamon rolls, plus a chapter on baking authentic sourdoughs in bread machines. Steeped in tradition, nuanced in flavor, and wonderfully ritualized in preparation, sourdough is bread the way it was meant to be. So join the sourdough renaissance and bring these time-honored traditions into your own kitchen.

Biology of Disease describes the biology of many of the human disorders and disease that are encountered in a clinical setting. It is designed for first and second year students in biomedical science programs and will also be a highly effective reference for health science professionals as well as being valuable to students beginning medical school. Real cases are used to illustrate the importance of biology in understanding the causes of diseases, as well as in diagnosis and therapy.

This updated and revised edition of the successful manual for sourdough-lovers traces the history of sourdough baking from ancient Egypt to modern times. Sourdough expert Ed Wood, a forensic pathologist who has been studying sourdough for over 50 years, explains what makes real sourdough starter and how baking enthusiasts can grow their own. 8 page full-color photo insert.

Start, grow, and bake your own delicious, homemade sourdough bread, with or without commercial yeast! Homemade Sourdough is the ultimate guide to creating your own sourdough bread. Learn sourdough formulas and recipes and follow along as the author explains the science behind sourdough and provides a guide to the world of starters, wild yeasts, proofing, pre-ferments, and motherdough. Homemade Sourdough provides dozens of recipes, not just for bread but for other baked goods, from muffins to pizza crust to chocolate cake. Sourdough is especially attractive to anyone who is aiming for a sustainable, self-sufficient lifestyle and also those who want the health benefits of bread made through fermentation. Sourdough rises through the action of lactic acid, so it doesn''t require storebought yeastâ?¬â? but the sourdough starter method works beautifully with either commercial yeast or wild yeast. For those interested in lowering their intake of gluten, sourdough preparations can produce lively, tasty loaves with lower amounts of gluten than other methods. There is no better way to embrace heritage flavors and time-tested bread-baking techniques than with sourdough. Foodies, farmers, DIYers, and locavores will want to devour this book.

Ghosted under ''N. V. Jason'' in 1968, Hell Chicks, is one of Wood''s most crazed, anarchistic novels. The complete disregard for normal rules of grammar suggest that it was written in one sitting. Unleashed in distorted, alcoholic twists of consciousness, the novel takes girl gangs from his screenplays for The Violent Years and Fugitive Girls to the next level, plus ultra of sex and violence. The Hell Chicks are twelve rough tough broads in black leather jackets. Their credo: ''Rules are LAWS and LAWS were meant to be broken.'' Hopped up on grass and beer they roar across the countryside on their hogs, raping any man they can get their hands on. Pussy, Pisser, Prancer, Sissy, Syph, Boobie, Cherry and Flame meet their inevitable end in a climactic bloody showdown with the law.

Young swingers get crazy in wild orgies and liquor-infused nights.

A man named Ralph begins to question his sexuality after touching his wife''s negligée. The sordid story deals with the continuing change that occurs in the patterns of behavior of a society in search of itself.

Written a year before his death, Hayes describes "The rigors of writing smut were definitely telling on Wood at this point. The rehashed plot of the transvestite hitman certainly wasn''t original this time around, and the usual colorful characters are almost nonexistent. The flair that made some of his other novels and films bearable, even through a thin plot and the strange grammar, was noticeably absent from TV Lust. It seems as though Ed Wood had finally given up.

Finalmente, dopo quarant’anni, per la prima volta un’antologia raccoglie 34 racconti scritti da Edward D. Wood Junior tra la fine degli Anni Sessanta e i primi Anni Settanta quando, per pagare l’affitto, il regista americano avviò un’intensa attività di scrittore. Sono storie che, in origine, erano destinate a riempire gli spazi bianchi tra le foto delle pin-up nei girlie magazines dell’epoca. Wood, che aveva tentato in tutti i modi di sfondare a Hollywood, affronta nei racconti tematiche scomode per quegli anni, come il feticismo e il travestitismo, che lui stesso praticò. Cimiteri, bordelli, strade di provincia, ma anche palazzi lugubri e verdi campi da golf fanno da scenario alle ossessioni di un uomo che in vita ha subìto umiliazioni e fallimenti, ma che, decenni prima dell’avvento di Facebook e di Instagram, ha saputo creare la propria identità attraverso l’artificio. E che, tra fiumi di alcol, schizzi di sangue e golfini d’angora, emerge ora come l’autentico maestro del pulp. “Ora che l’originalità sembra consistere nell’avere un account sui social media, Wood ci ricorda cosa sia davvero l’anticonformismo” The New York Times “Un libro incredibilmente unico” Los Angeles Times

Edward D. Wood Jr. (1924-1978) est célèbre pour avoir réalisé « le plus mauvais film de l’histoire du cinéma », l’improbable Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959). Tim Burton et Johnny Depp lui ont consacré un film en 1994, qui rend un hommage vibrant à sa poésie approximative, son amour du cinéma et sa passion des pulls angora.Écrit en 1965, Comment réussir (ou presque) à Hollywood (The Hollywood Rat Race) révèle encore une autre facette du personnage. S’adressant notamment aux apprentis acteurs et scénaristes, Ed Wood donne des conseils précis et documentés : dans quelle pension descendre, comment trouver un agent, comment survivre aux désillusions... Tout y passe : les photos promotionnelles, les attachés de presse...Le ton est féroce, l’ironie aussi savoureuse que paradoxale. Par quel miracle l’homme dont la carrière fut un échec peut-il s’ériger en guide ? C’est tout le sel de cet « Hollywood pour les Nuls » unique en son genre.

Deception Pass describes the quest for justice following a multiple vehicular homicide and vehicular assault. The maneuvers leading up to and including the courtroom drama depict the tragic legal realities in a state that has not yet enacted per se laws that define driving under the influence of drugs. A novel based on an actual court case.

All the non-fiction filmmaker Ed Wood wrote.

All the non-fiction filmmaker Ed Wood wrote.

Wood writes under pseudonym Spenser & West, progressive "sexologists" who wrote based off of interviews and case histories.

The Devil Girls-hopped up and strung out-cruise the red-light gutters of Nowheresville, USA, in a bloody, relentless search for kicks. Juvenile junkies, teenage lesbian killers with the morals of sewer rats... dope and depravity are their pleasures and Death their destination. A lurid expose of small town high school delinquents hot on the Highway to Hell.

A young woman named Paula tries to unravel her true twisted desires, exploring lesbiansim with other curious ladies of the night.

A DarkSide® Books convida você a despir os contos irreverentes e transgressores do cineasta cult Ed Wood. Nesta coletânea rara e inédita, o leitor é empurrado para um caleidoscópio pulp, insano e peculiar repleto de fantasmas, assassinos, humor, álcool, erotismo e liberdade. Ed Wood: Contos & Delírios reúne 33 histórias escritas pelo diretor ao longo da década de 1970 e chega aos leitores brasileiros em uma edição especial com ilustrações exclusivas de Laerte Coutinho, uma das quadrinistas mais conhecidas e consagradas do país, e introdução de Paulo Biscaia Filho, criador da peça teatral Acordei Cedo no Dia em que Morri (2017), uma homenagem carinhosa a Ed Wood. Tudo emoldurado em preto e rosa, as cores favoritas do cineasta. Wood entrou para a história ao se destacar entre os piores diretores de todos os tempos, e deu vida a filmes estranhos, excêntricos mas muito autênticos. Foi capaz de erguer sozinho um universo em preto e branco cercado de sombras dramáticas, erros técnicos, linhas de nylon, maquetes toscas, atuações amadoras, transbordando clichês e efeitos especiais dignos de uma feira de ciência da quinta série. Alheio às críticas e aos insultos, a paixão de Wood transformou seus discos voadores, zumbis, vampiras e strippers no mais puro fascínio entre o público. Dono de um estilo próprio, Ed adorava aparecer vestido com seu angorá rosa, salto agulha e a inconfundível peruca loira para extravasar as tensões dentro e fora dos sets. Criou personagens para si e narrativas para o mundo, como é o caso do filme Glen ou Glenda (1953). Estes aspectos de sua vida aparecem também na biografia dirigida por Tim Burton em 1994, um filme importante para a redescoberta de Ed Wood pelas novas gerações. A mente criativa de Ed se sobressaía em meio a tantas barreiras — baixos orçamentos, mortes inesperadas e o desprezo total dos estúdios. Ao ser sugado para o estranho mundo de Ed Wood você vai encontrar um artista incansável que fez um pacto com a liberdade para se expressar por inteiro, e fazer cinema de corpo e alma.

Glen Marker, aka Glenda Satin, transvestite and cold-blooded Syndicate assassin, sits on Death Row awaiting that last long walk to the chair. His final wish - in exchange for the torrid and violent story of his life-to die as he lived, loved and lost...in drag. A rabid confessional tale of organized crime, lust, booze and a crazed cross-dressing killer...John Waters shoots Jim Thompson on speed.

Glen, a hit man, becomes Glenda when it is time to do the dirty work. Although the Mafia and the police are on her tracks, Glenda wants to get out of that business, and she manages to escape. Whether dressed as a man or in shiny stilettos, Glen/Glenda manages to get involved with unique characters, from sensual prostitutes to local sheriffs, but what she does not know is that there is a red headed with matching lipstick and nails, who is also following her tracks.