CURIOUS GOODS: BEHIND THE SCENES OF "FRIDAY THE 13th: THE SERIES" (hardback)

Runner up in the Rondo Awards 2016“Lewis Vendredi made a deal with the devil to sell cursed antiques, buthe broke the pact, and it cost him his soul. His niece, Micki, and hercousin, Ryan, inherited the store, and with it, the curse. Now theymust get everything back—and the real terror begins.”So opens Friday the 13th: The Series. In 1987, Paramount Studiosfound success selling a new Star Trek series into syndication. Eager tocash in on other studio-owned properties, Paramount asked producer FrankMancuso Jr. to develop a series around Friday the 13th (1980), andthe new television series was born. The story lines had nothing to do withthe popular slasher film franchise, which was both a blessing and curse.The cast and crew were largely young and inexperienced, and they were oneof the first Hollywood productions to shoot entirely in Canada.In the first-ever examination of the TV series, author Alyse Wax delvesinto the series episode-by-episode, with more than sixty exclusiveinterviews wi