Barnabas, Quentin, and the Body Snatchers

[rosebud cottage]

Remember how in the Ross books Elizabeth was always opening up Collinwood to movie companies, ballet troupes, an underwater salvage operation, etc...Collinwood almost seemed like a Four Seasons with large groups of people coming & going!

[Janet the Wicked]

Does this mean that Velveeta cheese comes from outer space?

Explains why Cap'n Kirk wore a girdle.

[Janet the Wicked]

Seed pods full of faux aliens made entirely of Velveeta. No wonder I love that movie.
Awesome graphic, Mark! You need to do something with Plan 9 From Outer Space.

[Joeytrom]

This Ross novel is unique in that it is the only one written in the third person (all knowing) where all his other DS novels were written in the first person from the view of the herione.  The House of Dark Shadows novelization is also in the third person, but that is different as it is based on the movie.

[michael c]

Remember how in the Ross books Elizabeth was always opening up Collinwood to movie companies, ballet troupes, an underwater salvage operation, etc...Collinwood almost seemed like a Four Seasons with large groups of people coming & going!

one of the many,many off-putting things about lara parker's "the salem branch" was that liz opend up the house to tour groups.it was a very minor plot point but one that irritated me right off the bat and things just went down hill from there.

i've only read a few ross novels but i remember in one liz and roger had another brother named "professor veno".as was often the case in the early books his primary function was to torment vicki for no reason.

[Mark Rainey]

This Ross novel is unique in that it is the only one written in the third person (all knowing) where all his other DS novels were written in the first person from the view of the herione.  The House of Dark Shadows novelization is also in the third person, but that is different as it is based on the movie.

Joeytrom -- I think you're confusing first-person, third-person limited omniscient, and third-person omniscient. All the Ross novels are written as third-person narratives, but they're generally limited to a single character's point of view. Body Snatchers is written in third-person omniscient, relating the points of view of several different characters throughout the book; in that, it is unique. (A first-person narrative would refer to the main character as "I" rather than "he" or "she.")

[arashi]

Oh Good Lord, that one. And not only was the UFO semi-invisible, it was also PINK.

I also love how in almost every book the damsel in distress ignores Barnabas' advice and manages to get herself kidnapped by the villan, who then has her locked up under the eye of [insert alcoholic beverage name here] besotted incompetents.

Personally, if you ignore the out of characterness of them, I enjoyed Barnabas, Quentin and the Grave Robbers,and B,Q and the Magic Potion the most enjoyable (out of the books I've read so far).

[Janet the Wicked]

welcome, darkenedlight.

MR... I really really want that as a giant poster on my living room wall.   I want people to see it without ever knowing DS.   I would not explain it.   There's my sense of humor, in a neat package, right there.

I would love to be able to print out a copy myself. Every time I look at that picture, I laugh hysterically. Please make it available for copy. PLEASE!!!!

[Mark Rainey]

You can snag it from right here:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v665/damnedrodan/McCarthy.jpg

[David]

 

RE: Elizabeth opening the house to movie
companies:
reminds me of an amusing thread we had here a month or so ago
regarding the 1975 porn flick The Story of Joanna, which was actually shot at Seaview Terrace!

Did Liz know about this?

I heard that Abigail's ghost visited that set to tell them how SHOCKINGLY IMMODEST they were!

David

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I heard that Abigail's ghost visited that set to tell them how SHOCKINGLY IMMODEST they were!

Far more shockingly immodest than Vicki's '60s clothes, that's for sure! 

[Janet the Wicked]

You can snag it from right here:

Thank you, Mark!!!!

[retzev]

Plan 9, .while poorly written/acted does have some stunning visuals. Check out the lighting  in the graveyard!

It's so good to hear someone else feels that way. I understand why people make fun of Wood, I do it too, cause it's fun.  But I never tire of watching his films, because they can be appreciated on different levels. Sure they're incompetently produced, but they also contain moments that are...well, really good. I've watched PLAN 9 an excessive amount of times to say the least, but I always seem to notice some amusing detail that I never noticed before, sometimes it's another goof or flub that escaped me before, but often it's a moment of brilliance! It's an amazing film, nothing like it in the world.

[Uncle Roger]

Wow, the Ross books. How well I remember them. Bought all of them, still have them around here someplace. I did draw the line at the collection of vampire and werewolf stories, despite the claim that they had been personally selected by Barnabas and Quentin. Just like Samantha Stephens had recommended Rosemary's Baby.

Having stumbled onto DS in mid 1968, I thought that the books would give me the back story on the characters. Pretty obviously not, huh. Did Roger and Elizabeth disown their brother Mark and his daughter Linda? Did she change her name to Daphne and show up for the 1991 version?

And the invisible pink spaceship! From the planet of poor taste, I suppose. Where is Wonder Woman with her invisible plane when you need her?

Some years ago, Geoffrey Hamell wrote a short but quite clever takeoff on the Ross novels titled Barnabas, Quentin and the Zombies' Nose. It appeared in TWODS years ago. The heroine, a Miss Bornrich, is attacked by the even popular Hare and the ever so evil Dr. Adolph Hogsbreath. Carolyn informs our heroine that Quentin is a master of disguise and could among them right now. She adds that once he was married to Roger for six months before anyone caught on.

Let me assure you that this Uncle Roger would have caught on long before that. But I probably would have gone along with it anyway because it would be like getting the milk for free.

[Gerard]

Even though "Marilyn Ross" was actually a man, whenever I picture "her" sitting at a typewriter and clacking away those Barnabas, Quentin and... novels she lookes like Richie Cunningham's mother.

Gerard