Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- 1 Contact Has Been Established.- 2 'Hob'.- 3 Ringstone Round.- Notes.- Credits.

Promotional Information

It's great to see a Quatermass film getting the BFI Film Classics treatment in this timely addition to the series' - Sight & Sound 'Kim Newman is one of Britain's finest genre commentators, and his writing here is illuminating ...a shrewd and penetrating introduction to Quatermass for the uninitiated, and a must-have for those who think they already know everything there is to know about Quatermass and his infernal pit.' - Cinema Retro 'A must-have page-turner... A book you will want to pick up and read every time you watch the classic film it is named after.' - Fortean Times

About the Author

Kim Newman is a novelist, film critic and broadcaster. He is editor of The BFI Companion to Horror and Science Fiction/Horror: A Sight and Sound Reader, and author of the BFI TV Classic on Doctor Who and the BFI Film Classic on Cat People.

Reviews

It's great to see a Quatermass film getting the BFI Film Classics treatment in this timely addition to the series.
*Sight & Sound*

Kim Newman is one of Britain's finest genre commentators, and his writing here is illuminating ...a shrewd and penetrating introduction to Quatermass for the uninitiated, and a must-have for those who think they already know everything there is to know about Quatermass and his infernal pit.
*Cinema Retro*

A must-have page-turner... A book you will want to pick up and read every time you watch the classic film it is named after.
*Fortean Times*

No stranger to the weird and wonderful corners of cinema, author and film journalist Kim Newman makes a passionate and astonishingly informed case for Quatermass and The Pit in this BFI Classics volume. He details the history of the character, his creator Nigel Kneale, as well as all the Quatermass screen adaptations, before taking us down into...The Pit!
*The Comic Crush*