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Only the Dead Know Burbank
Only the Dead Know Burbank | Bradford Tatum
5 posts | 4 read | 18 to read
With Lon Cheney and Boris Karloff among its characters, this sweeping and stylish love letter to the golden age of horror cinema tells the wonderful, tragic story of Maddy Ulm. It takes readers through her rise from the complicated shadows of Berlin’s first experiments with expressionist cinema to the glamorous deserts of Hollywood. For Maddy has a secret. A secret that has given her incredible insight into the soul of horror. A secret that has a terrible price as well. A young girl awakens in a hastily dug grave—vague memories of blood and fever, her mother performing a mysterious ceremony before the world went away. Germany has lost the first great war and Europe has lost millions more to the Spanish Flu epidemic. But Maddy has not only survived, she has changed. No longer does she eat, sleep, or age. No longer can she die. After taking up with a pair of street performers, she shocks and fascinates the crowds with her ability to survive outrageous traumas. But at a studio in Berlin, Maddy discovers her true calling: film. With her intimate knowledge of fear, death, and realms beyond the living, she practically invents the modern horror genre on the spot. Before long, she travels to California and insinuates herself in Hollywood as the genius secretly behind The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, and Frankenstein. And yet she must remain in the shadows—a chilling apparition suspended eternally between worlds. Clever, tragic, and thoroughly entertaining, Only the Dead Know Burbank introduces readers to one of the most unique, unforgettable characters in fiction.
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ElphaReads
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Mehso-so

The characterization of Boris Karloff in this book was so touching and wistful. I do think that it moved a bit too slow for a bit too long, but the characters were all very well done, especially Maddy, Mutter, and Karloff. All three made me cry at various points.

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ElphaReads
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And now we move on to this odd little ditty. It is slow right now. But I am hoping it picks up!

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HarperPerennial
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What if a young girl was responsible for the birth of horror cinema? OH AND what if she was immortal? Perfect timing for some Halloween x Hollywood ☠🕯🕸✨📽🎃

TheBookbabeblog84 Looks very interesting 8y
vivastory I stumbled on this a couple days ago. It looks really good. 8y
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