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Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Volume 3 {Sound of Fear}                     Trade Paperback
Featuring two complete Kolchak stories: “Lambs to the Slaughter” & “Eve of Terror”… all presented in Full Color.
Cover by: Cortney Skinner

Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974 – 1975 season. Kolchak: The Night Stalker was created by Jeff Rice. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter – Carl Kolchak, played by Darren McGavin – who investigated mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those that law enforcement authorities would not follow up. These often involved the supernatural or science fiction, including fantastic creatures. The series was preceded by two television movies, The Night Stalker (1972) and The Night Strangler (1973). Although the series lasted only a single season, it garnered a world-wide fan following and is considered a cult classic in horror television. Subsequent novels and comic books later followed. And it later influenced the creation of the X-Files, which is in the same vein as Kolchak: The Night Stalker.

In 2002, Moonstone began publishing Prestige Format one-shots that pick up where the television show left off in 1975. Moonstone continues the creepy horror anthology that is: “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” in various comic book related projects. Cue the “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” intro theme music and be prepared to get totally spooked out… with two complete Kolchak stories: “Lambs to the Slaughter” and “Eve of Terror”… all presented in Full Color! Awesome!!

Before the X-Files, there was Carl Kolchak, TV’s first paranormal investigator (played with style and pinache by Darren McGavin)! This volume collects the sold out stories: “Lambs to the Slaughter” and “Eve of Terror”. In “Lambs to the Slaughter”, Kolchak has to find a series of missing teenagers in the cesspool of downtown Hollywood. What does a wealthy industrialist and his genetic manipulation dreams of having a son have to do with it? And is there a mythical monster lying in wait for these kids, as well as for Kolchak? Against all spine-tingling odds, it’s up to Kolchak to find out, and survive long enough to let the truth be known! Next in “Eve of Terror” is an adapted/added-to script that was left over from the TV show, but never filmed! Government conspiracies, unexplained deaths, secret scientific experiments, and a modern day miracle, all wrapped up in one “racing against the clock” tale! “

Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Volume 3 {Sound of Fear} contains:Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Lambs to the Slaughter (2003)
Featuring Carl Kolchak versus a Minotaur Monster!
Writers: Joe Gentile & Mark Dawidziak
Artist: Trevor Von Eden
Colorists: Ken Wolak & Dawn Groszewski
Letterer: Terri Boyle
Editors: C.J. Henderson & Joe Gentile

Moonstone Presents, “Kolchak: Night Stalker – Lambs to the Slaughter”, This book tells an old story: wide-eyed, hopeful teens come to Hollywood in pursuit of their dreams of fame and fortune, and they’re led astray and eaten alive. What a string of seemingly typical missing persons cases are far more than they appear to be, and the tale is actually older than the usual Tinsel Town sob story. It’s ancient. Mythological, even… and Carl Kolchak is in dangerously deep… all to get the story.

Story/Spoilers
Kolchak the Night Stalker: Lambs to the Slaughter: Kolchak investigates a spree of “typical” missing persons cases in Hollywood. Tinsel Town dreams led the poor kids astray, right? It’s an old story told here, but exactly how old is sure to come to a shock to Carl. Like a run away train going downhill towards a field of scared bunny rabbits, Kolchak plows his way through (and over) the truth. How about genetic experiments covered up by unknown forces? How about Kolchak unwittingly trying to smooth talk his way into signing his own death warrant? How about Kolchak having a single iota of luck, just this one time? Please? And hey, Carl, how about getting your own cup of coffee and leaving Ron’s alone for once?

Investigating a spate of missing teenagers, Kolchak learns of a possible connection with wealthy businessman Marcus Polk. But his attempts to gain information are continually met with resistance, and he is roughed up by Polk’s heavies. Bruised and battered, Kolchak meets Theresa Termini, a hospital receptionist; using Theresa’s computer skills they gain access to Polk’s personal files, which reveal his involvement in a project concerning genetic manipulation. Kolchak realises that the abducted youths are being sacrificed to a special clone that Polk has financed. Breaking into the disused prison where the clone is being kept Kolchak discovers that the creature is a man-made Minotaur – and then finds himself in the role of Theseus…
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Eve of Terror (2005)
Featuring an unproduced screenplay for the TV Series adapted to comics.
Writers/Script by: Joe Gentile (adaptation, original material); Jeff Rice (creator); Stephen Lord & Michael Kozoll (screenplay)
Artist: Walter Figueroa
Inker: Chad Hunt
Colorist: Tricia Hale
Letterer: Terri Boyle
Editors: Mark Dawidziak, C.J. Henderson & Joe Gentile

Moonstone Presents, “Kolchak: Night Stalker – Eve of Terror”, This book tells the story of an unproduced script for the TV Series. The series was cancelled with only 20 episodes completed but the initial order of 26 meant there were scripts that were completed but unproduced for the series. The screenplay for Eve of Terror’ was written by Stephen Lord and Michael Kozoll, the script dated 7th March, 1975. The story is summed up by one of Kolchak’s lines in the episode: “What if I told you that a deranged feminist murdered a Casanova lab technician, a sex goddess, and her purveyor?”

Story/Spoilers
The story begins when a laboratory experiment into behavioral research goes wrong; a technician named Myra is exposed to high-frequency sounds, while her colleague Wayne is killed by an invisible assailant. When a spate of terrible deaths begins, Kolchak learns that each victim was a man who exploited women. Following the story Kolchak discovers that Myra unwillingly transforms into a feminist monster, which is now waging a war against male chauvinists…
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Trade Paperback reprints/collects: Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Lambs to the Slaughter (2003) & Kolchak: The Night Stalker – Eve of Terror (2005).  Moonstone

Trade Paperback is bagged & double boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: Moonstone Books
Publication Date: 2008
Format: FC, 104 pages, TPB, 10.25″ x 6.5″
ISBN-10: 1933076372
ISBN-13: 9781933076379

Collectible Entertainment note: Trade Paperback is New & Unread.  Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Kolchak The Night Stalker and/or Horror collector / enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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