“DEVIL
BAT DIARY - The Journal of Johnny Layton” by Peter H. Brothers
Inspired
by the famous 1940 film, “Devil Bat Diary” (CreateSpace, ISBN:
9-781461-070924), tells the “true” story of what really happened to the unhappy
citizens of Heathville, Illinois, during that terrible prewar summer, as
recorded in the long-suppressed journals of Chicago City Register’s principal newspaper
correspondent, Jonathan “Johnny” Layton.
The
Devil Bats were furiously furry fiends created by a scientific genius who
believes himself wrongfully relegated to concocting perfumes and colognes which
he despises for wages not worth mentioning. So, as a means to an
embittered end, he manufactures an evil ointment with a scent that so
infuriates his giant bats to such an extent they feel compelled to tear the
throats out of their unsuspecting victims.
“Devil
Bat Diary”
tells for the first time the full inside story of what took place in ways not
possible to show to Production Code audiences back then; did you know for
example that Chief Wilkins loved Layton, or that Mary was a religious lunatic,
or that Layton and his partner “One-Shot” McGuire couldn’t stand the sight of
each other?
Written
to coincide with the 70th Anniversary of the film’s release and
dedicated to the great Bela Lugosi, “Devil Bat Diary” is an unforgettably
entertaining venture into a world filled with chirping Chiropterans, malicious murders,
sacred sex and revolting revelations. [Contains adult subject matter]
(Three-time
Rondo Award nominee Peter H. Brothers is also the author of “Mushroom Clouds
and Mushroom Men – The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda” and the “Devil Bat
Diary” sequel: “Terror In Tinseltown – The Sequel to Devil Bat Diary.”)
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