Behind The Candelabra. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 1988 book, Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace
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Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace
Scott Thorson, Alex Thorleifson, 1988
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Steven Soderbergh, 2013

In 1977, 18-year-old Scott Thorson, who works as an animal trainer for films, meets Bob Black, a Hollywood producer, in a gay bar in Los Angeles. Black introduces Thorson to Liberace, who takes an immediate liking to the handsome younger man. Liberace invites the two backstage and then to his luxurious home in Las Vegas.


Phantoms. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the 1983 book
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Phantoms
Dean Koontz, 1983
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Joe Chappelle, 1998

Unspeakable horrors have mysteriously befallen the whole town of Snowfield, Colorado, leaving behind only a few mangled body parts and unanswered questions. Enter two vacationing sisters and a sheriff and deputy from a nearby town, who try to piece things together with the help of a scientist-turned-tabloid hack. But will they unravel the mystery of the monstrous subterranean killing force before they become its prey?