The Late Great Creature

“A lost classic . . . the history of a horror-film star and a treatise on human frailty . . . is back to be savored and marveled at anew” (James Ellroy, New York Times– bestselling author of the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy).   Simon Moro, a sixty-eight-year-old star, is making his last picture, a low-budget remake of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven . Moro, infuriated by the bland horror movies of his day, sees his own career—even as it ends—as an ongoing effort to wallop