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True Vampires of History, by Donald F. Glut. 1971 paperback. 191 pages, very nice condition. $10 Shock II: Thirteen Tales to Haunt the Imagination, by Richard Matheson. 1964 first printing paperback. 191 pages, nice condition. $10 DM or email sales@hyaenagallery.com with inquiries https://www.instagram.com/p/CFX-NSABBAz/?igshid=1ohujghl5at5u

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The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells. 1957 paperback. 150 pages, very nice condition. $10 Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. 1965 paperback. 223 pages, very nice condition. $10 Dracula, by Bram Stoker. 1947 paperback. 409 pages, very nice condition. $15 DM or email sales@hyaenagallery.com to purchase https://www.instagram.com/p/CFX9oXEhk1d/?igshid=1hfo487jy4klj

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Bell, Book and Candle, by John van Druten. 1958 paperback. 116 pages, very nice condition. $10 The Night of the Hunter: A Thriller, by Davis Grubb. 1952 paperback. 255 pages, very nice condition. $10 Midnight Cowboy, by James Leo Herlihy. 1969 first printing paperback. 191 pages, very nice condition. $10 DM or email sales@hyaenagallery.com with inquiries https://www.instagram.com/p/CFX8rPNhPD9/?igshid=1n4aa8810mp0h

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Alfred Hitchcock's Rope. 1948 First Printing paperback. 144 pages, nice condition. $20 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV. 1958 First Printing paperback. 224 pages, very nice condition. $10 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 14 of My Favorites in Suspense. 1960 First Printing paperback. 286 pages, very nice condition. $10 DM or email sales@hyaenagallery.com with inquiries https://www.instagram.com/p/CFX6zgpB9qR/?igshid=1tz5sbcugl9s0

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Drawn and Quartered, by Charles Addams. 1964 First Printing paperback. 96 pages, very nice condition. $15 DM or email sales@hyaenagallery.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CFX6scDheHY/?igshid=m0hpm1s568yl

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About to post some killer books from a small collection we have just acquired, starting with these: 13 Plays of Ghosts and the Supernatural, selected by Marvin Kaye. Cover artwork by Edward Gorey. 1990 hardcover. 617 pages, nice condition. $15 Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural, edited by Henry Mazzeo with illustrations by Edward Gorey. 1968 hardcover. 316 pages, nice condition. $15 DM or email sales@hyaenagallery.com to purchase https://www.instagram.com/p/CFX41r_hqZJ/?igshid=19rgnpy5czchj

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Black Moon Rising (1986) promotional standee, counter display. Approx 10.5"x13.5" unused, still shrink wrapped, and in very clean condition. This standee is in 3 parts for a 3D effect: background, pop out base with Linda Hamilton, and car crashing out of the building. This is someone's favorite John Carpenter film. $50 DM or email sales@hyaenagallery.com with inquiries Last pic shows the movie poster, to give you an idea of what this looks like. #blackmoonrising #tommyleejones #lindahamilton #johncarpenter https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXr4s6hCIJ/?igshid=1i0hlbr7x4tst

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The Mimizuka part 3 The Mimizuka is almost unknown to the Japanese public. A plaque, which was later removed, stood in front of the Ear Mound in the 1960s with the passage, “One cannot say that cutting off noses was so atrocious by the standard of the time.” Most guidebooks do not mention the Ear Mound, and only a few Japanese or foreign tourists visit the site. The majority of visiting tourists are Korean - Korean tour buses are often seen parked near the Ear Mound. In 1982, not a single Japanese school textbook mentioned the Ear Mound. As of 1997, the mound is referred to in about half of all high-school history textbooks according to Shigeo Shimoyama, an official of Jikkyo, a publishing company. The publisher released the first Japanese text book mentioning the Ear Mound in the mid-1980s. The Education Ministry of Japan at that time opposed the description as “too vivid” and pressured the publisher to reduce the tone and also to praise Hideyoshi for religiously dedicating the Ear Mound in order to store the spirits of the killed people. In the 1970s under the Park Chung-hee administration, some of the officials of the Korean government asked Japan to level the monument. However, most Koreans said that the mound should stay in Japan as a reminder of past savagery. #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXqy_hBk4v/?igshid=1xrp2hcspgo01

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The Mimizuka part 2 One hundred and sixty-thousand Japanese troops had gone to Korea where they had taken 185,738 Korean heads and 29,014 Chinese ones, a grand total of 214,752. As some might have been discarded, it is improbable to enumerate how many were killed in total during the war. The Mimizuka was dedicated September 28, 1597. Though the exact reasons as to its construction are not entirely known, scholars contend that during the second Japanese invasion of Korea in 1597, Toyotomi Hideyoshi demanded his commanders show receipts of their martial valor in the destruction, dispatching congratulatory letters to his high-ranking warriors in the field as evidence of their service. Hideyoshi then ordered the relics entombed in a shrine on the grounds of Hokoji Temple, and set Buddhist priests to work praying for the repose of the souls of the hundreds of thousands of Koreans from whose bodies they had come; an act that chief priest Saisho Jotai in a fit of toadyism would hail as a sign of Hideyoshi’s “great mercy and compassion.” The shrine initially was known as hanazuka, Mound of Noses, but several decades later this would come to be regarded as too cruel-sounding a name, and would be changed to the more euphonious but inaccurate mimizuka, Mound of Ears, the misnomer by which it is known to this day. Other nose tombs dating from the same period are found elsewhere in Japan, such as at Okayama. #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXqr8vh10-/?igshid=19lvkapyywgsb

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The Mimizuka (literally “Ear Mound”, often translated as “Ear Tomb”), an alteration of the original Hanazuka (literally “Nose Mound”) is a monument in Kyoto, Japan, dedicated to the sliced noses of killed Korean soldiers and civilians as well as Ming Chinese troops taken as war trophies during the Japanese invasions of Korea from 1592 to 1598. The monument enshrines the severed noses of at least 38,000 Koreans killed during Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasions. The shrine is located just to the west of Toyokuni Shrine, the Shinto shrine honoring Hideyoshi in Kyoto. Traditionally, Japanese warriors would bring back the heads of enemies slain on the battlefield as proof of their deeds, however, the process of nose collection in lieu of heads became the feature of the second Korean invasion. Remuneration was paid to soldiers by their daimyo commanders based on the number of severed heads they submitted to collection stations, where inspectors meticulously counted, recorded, salted and packed the heads bound for Japan. However, because of the number of civilians killed along with soldiers, and crowded conditions on the ships that transported troops, it was far easier to just bring back noses instead of whole heads. Japanese chroniclers on the second invading campaign do not fail to mention that the noses hacked off the faces of the massacred were also of ordinary civilians mostly in the provinces Gyeongsang, Jeolla, and Chungcheong. In the second invasion Hideyoshi’s orders were thus: “Mow down everyone universally, without discriminating between young and old, men and women, clergy and the laity—high ranking soldiers on the battlefield, that goes without saying, but also the hill folk, down to the poorest and meanest—and send the heads to Japan.“ #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXqi4xhF1_/?igshid=1vqh6xxbbroid

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Small batch of Laserdisc just came through the door. All are brand new, still sealed. Blood & Donuts = $40 Ultimate Ultimate UFC = $15 Mom = $10 El Mariachi = $10 Killing Zoe = $5 DM or email sales@hyaenagallery.com with inquiries https://www.instagram.com/p/CFVUx93B6cO/?igshid=1d4qdxs9im9x8

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Android (New World, 1982). One Sheet (27" X 39"). Science Fiction starring the great Klaus Kinski. Very nice condition. $25 email sales@hyaenagallery.com or DM with inquiries https://www.instagram.com/p/CFVRBo1B_-R/?igshid=1ckr1vs9e1gh2

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Here's a pretty rare promo item from Journey Through the Darkzone. Cool folder with a spinning wheel, revealing the 7 zones of the film. This was a Charles Band project for Empire Films. I guess the concept was to have a 3D video game film with a different special effects artist directing each level. They made some promo posters and primo kits, but the actual film was abandoned and never saw the light of day. Band ended up using the title as a tagline for Trancers 4. Very cool promo item for a movie that never was. $50 DM or email sales@hyaenagallery.com with inquiries https://www.instagram.com/p/CFVQAJtBdm0/?igshid=1qbjmcn5osfaj

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VAMP (1986) promotional standee, counter display. Approx 8.5"x14" unused and in very clean condition. $50 DM or email sales@hyaenagallery.com with inquiries #gracejones #vamp https://www.instagram.com/p/CFVCF3lhYiz/?igshid=1vq33co1l4snj

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Victor Noir part 3 A life-sized bronze statue was sculpted by Jules Dalou to mark his grave, portrayed in a realistic style as though he had just fallen on the street, dropping his hat which is depicted beside him. The sculpture has a very noticeable protuberance in Noir’s trousers. This has made it one of the most popular memorials for women to visit in the famous cemetery. Myth says that placing a flower in the upturned top hat after kissing the statue on the lips and rubbing its genital area will enhance fertility, bring a blissful sex life, or, in some versions, a husband within the year. As a result of the legend, those particular components of the otherwise verdigris (grey-green oxidized bronze) statue are rather well-worn and shiny. In 2004 a fence was erected around the statue of Noir, to deter superstitious people from touching the statue. However, due to supposed protests from the “female population of Paris,” in fact led by French TV anchor Péri Cochin, it was torn down again. #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CFU2_d4h6Mj/?igshid=486g22p9475e

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Victor Noir part 2 On the following day, Grousset sent Victor Noir and Ulrich de Fonvielle as his seconds to fix the terms of a duel with Pierre Bonaparte. Contrary to custom, they presented themselves to Prince Bonaparte instead of contacting his seconds. Each of them carried a revolver in his pocket. Noir and de Fonvieille presented Prince Bonaparte with a letter signed by Grousset. But the prince declined the challenge, asserting his willingness to fight his fellow nobleman Rochefort, but not his “menials.” In response, Noir asserted his solidarity with his friends. According to Fonvieille, Prince Bonaparte then slapped his face and shot Noir dead. According to the Prince, it was Noir who took umbrage at the epithet and struck him first, whereupon he drew his revolver and fired at his aggressor. That was the version eventually accepted by the court. A public outcry followed and on January 12, led by political activist Auguste Blanqui, more than 100,000 people joined Noir’s funeral procession to a cemetery in Neuilly. At a time when the emperor was already unpopular, Pierre’s acquittal on the murder charge caused enormous public outrage that erupted into a number of violent demonstrations. Separate events however led to the Franco-Prussian War which resulted in the overthrow of the Emperor’s regime in 1870. In 1891, following the establishment of the Third Republic, the body of Victor Noir was moved to Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CFU22M1hQGi/?igshid=1apgicq88d4hd

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Victor Noir (1848 – 1870) was a French journalist who is famous for the manner of his death and its political consequences. His tomb in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris later became a fertility symbol. Originally named Yvan Salmon, he adopted “Victor Noir” as his pen name after his mother’s maiden name. He went to Paris and became an apprentice journalist for the newspaper La Marseillaise, owned and operated by Henri Rochefort and edited by Paschal Grousset. In December 1869, a dispute broke out between two Corsican newspapers, the radical La Revanche, inspired from afar by Grousset and the loyalist L'Avenir de la Corse, edited by an agent of the Ministry of Interior named Della Rocca. The invective of la Revanche concentrated on Napoleon I. On December 30, l'Avenir published a letter sent to its editor by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, the great-nephew of Napoleon, and cousin of the then-ruling Emperor Napoleon III. Prince Bonaparte castigated the staff of la Revanche as cowards and traitors. The letter made its way from Bastia to Paris. Grousset took offense and demanded satisfaction. In the meantime, la Marseillaise lent strong support to the cause of la Revanche. On January 9, 1870, Prince Bonaparte wrote a letter to Rochefort, claiming to uphold the good name of his family: “After having outraged each of my relations, you insult me with the pen of one of your menials. My turn had to come. Only I have an advantage over others of my name, of being a private individual, while being a Bonaparte… I therefore ask you whether your inkpot is guaranteed by your breast… I live, not in a palace, but at 59, rue d'Auteuil. I promise to you that if you present yourself, you will not be told that I left.” #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CFU2rOhh9Y_/?igshid=17rljl4u0yky