The Hammer Story: Revised and Expanded Edition by Marcus Hearn - ISBN: 9781803365145
Hardcover
The definitive story of Hammer Films, horror classics reborn.

The Hammer Story: Revised and Expanded Edition

  • Hardcover

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    1 January 2026

Summary

The only authorised history of Hammer Films draws on exclusive access to the company’s archive of stills and paperwork to give the complete history of the company and its leading figures, a film-by-film analysis of its horror and fantasy titles, and the most complete Hammer filmography ever published.

Nearly seventy years ago, Hammer Films released their very first horror movie, The Quatermass Xperiment. The now-legendary British company went on to m…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781803365145
ISBN-10:1803365145
Author:Marcus Hearn, Alan Barnes
Publisher:Titan Books Ltd
Imprint:Titan Books Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:1 January 2026
Dimensions:290mm x 240mm
About The Author

Marcus Hearn

Marcus Hearn began his career at Marvel Comics and has since written for The Times, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph, as well as contributing to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and numerous magazines. His books include authorised biographies of filmmakers George Lucas and Gerry Anderson, Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection, and Eight Days a Week, the story of The Beatles’ final world tour. The winner of three Rondo Awards, most recently for his feature-length documentary Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros Years, he is currently the Head of Library and Archive for Hammer Films.

Alan Barnes is the author of Sherlock Holmes on Screen, and has co-written (with Marcus Hearn) volumes on the James Bond films and Quentin Tarantino. A former editor of both Doctor Who Magazine and the Judge Dredd Megazine, his fiction writing includes over forty full-cast audio dramas for Big Finish Productions, plus the script for CBBC’s animated Doctor Who adventure, The Infinite Quest. He was part of the dialogue team for Risen 2: Dark Waters, nominated for Best Videogame Script in the 2012 Writers’ Guild Awards. He is married with three children.

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