``A Life In the Cinema,'' the First Book From Filmmaker Mick Garris, Hits Bookstores This October; Book Features Contributions By Genre Greats Stephen King and Clive Barker.

Entertainment Editors

STUDIO CITY, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--March 24, 2000

Just in time for Halloween, writer/director Mick Garris is set to publish his first book, "A Life In the Cinema," this October.

The book features an introduction by Stephen King, whose collaborations with Garris include the top-rated TV adaptations of "The Stand" and "The Shining," and cover art by fantasist and acclaimed artist Clive Barker.

King writes in his introduction: "Here is a real Hollywood insider writing about the real inside world of filmmaking: the good, the bad and the cheesy. These stories are both erotic and cynical, but they are above all well and fiercely told ... hard-boiled noir with a ghastly little prink of the devil's own pitchfork."

Garris's acclaimed short stories, which have appeared in magazines and popular genre collections "Hot Blood," "Splatterpunks" and "Silver Scream," visit a success-hungry producer who trawls the underside of the Hollywood dream (the title story and its sequel); a beatific deaf mute who turns holiness into perversity ("Joy"); a desert community where golden-agers seem to be growing young ("Baby Shower"); a couple crossing paths in an unusual dreamscape ("Dream On Me"); an everyman who's dying to get noticed ("His Insignificant Life ..."); and a kid whose late Gramma is definitely not resting in peace ("Forever Gramma"). The final story, "Chocolate," a sensual thriller about a man who experiences flashes of a woman's life, is also accompanied by a full-length screenplay adaptation of the tale.

"A Life In the Cinema" will be released in a signed, limited-edition hardcover by Gauntlet Press.

Garris is a supervising producer of DreamWorks/NBC's "The Others," having written and directed the upcoming episode "Don't Dream It's Over" (airing this Saturday, March 25) and directed the pilot and the "Luciferous" installment.

Garris's collaborations with King include "Sleepwalkers," which opened at No. 1 in 1992; "Quicksilver Highway," which Garris wrote, produced and directed based on stories by King and Barker; and co-writing (with King and Jackson) the Michael Jackson short "Ghosts."

Ordering information can be obtained from the publisher at its Web site, www.gauntletpress.com, or by phone at 610/328-5476.