Elegy. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the 2001 book, The Dying Animal
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The Dying Animal
Philip Roth, 2001
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Isabel Coixet, 2008

David Kepesh is a cultural critic and professor, in a state of ’emancipated manhood’: His relationships with women are usually casual, brief and sexual in nature. David will find his life thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.


Tales from the Darkside. Poster of the 1990 movie and cover of the 1892 book, Lot No. 249
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Lot No. 249
Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892
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John Harrison, 1990

Three short movies, bound together by a fourth tale in which the other three stories are read. The first segment features an animated mummy stalking selected student victims; the second tale tells the story of a “cat from Hell” who cannot be killed and leaves a trail of victims behind it; the third story is about a man who witnesses a bizarre killing and promises never to tell what he saw, and the “in-between” bit is the story of a woman preparing to cook her newspaper boy for supper.


Tales from the Darkside. Poster of the 1990 movie and cover of the 1977 book, The Cat from Hell
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The Cat from Hell
Stephen King, 1977
movie vs book
John Harrison, 1990

Three short movies, bound together by a fourth tale in which the other three stories are read. The first segment features an animated mummy stalking selected student victims; the second tale tells the story of a “cat from Hell” who cannot be killed and leaves a trail of victims behind it; the third story is about a man who witnesses a bizarre killing and promises never to tell what he saw, and the “in-between” bit is the story of a woman preparing to cook her newspaper boy for supper.