H. Perry Horton

Some artists' work has recurring themes, character types, or visual motifs. David Lynch - writer, director, producer, painter, woodworker, coffee aficionado, tobacco enthusiast - is no exception, and in fact it can be said his work across all media is instantly recognizable owing to his particular brand of creativity. But what if the recurrence wasn't an aesthetic decision? What if, rather, it was a narrative one? What if, instead of being mere elements that Lynch revisits, these were links between his separate works, forming - when viewed from a certain perspective - a mega-narrative near-50 years in the telling?That's the insane supposition behind IN DREAMS, which takes six feature films, two television series, one short film, four paintings and four novels, all from or related to the oeuvre of David Lynch, and analyses them through the perspective that they are, in fact, separate chapters in the same story, the greatest story never told, and the underground magnum opus of America's most accomplished absurdist auteur.

From the virtual pages of renowned film site One Perfect Shot, writer H. Perry Horton has collected 17 original essays that delve into the mystery and intrigue of David Lynch and Mark Frost's cult-TV series TWIN PEAKS. Topics include the influence of Film Noir on the series, the influence of pop icon Marilyn Monroe on the character of Laura Palmer, the loves of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper, the literary inspirations for The White and Black Lodges, themes of duality, the symbolism of water, of food, and many more. Also included is one of the most extensive episode guides in existence, a guide to the prequel FIRE WALK WITH ME, and a separate section of essays devoted to how the latter film expands the TWIN PEAKS mythology. Written for the novice and the fanatic alike, BETWEEN TWO WORLDS offers a path through the darkness of TWIN PEAKS and illuminates why it is, as noted in the introduction, the dawn of television's Golden Age.

On September 6th, 1965, Sutter Wayne Thomas, 8, went missing from the Mecklenburg County Fairgrounds in Charlotte, North Carolina. He remained missing for eight years, and when he returned, horribly scarred and disfigured, he remembered nothing of where he had been, who had taken him, or what had happened to him. His abductor was never apprehended, or even identified. 30 years later, Sutter is a highly-successful true-crime author and a public relations agent for missing children, lending his fame and fortune to the efforts for their safe return. For the most part he has adjusted to the world around him, though any lingering effects from his ordeal flare to the forefront when on the exact anniversary of his abduction, another 8-year-old boy goes missing from the exact place, at the exact time, in the exact way Sutter had. HERITAGE is the story of not only of Sutter but of Patrick Lucas, the 8 year-old being held in the boiler room of a derelict castle at Heritage USA, an abandoned theme park; Dale Hartman, the detoxing heroin junkie hiding from his dealer/employer in a motel on theme park grounds; and Patrick's unknown abductor who, if suggestive newspaper clippings being sent anonymously to Sutter are to be believed, just might be the same man who abducted Sutter 30 years earlier. These four lives collide in horrifying and unpredictable ways as the investigation into Patrick's abduction - and the media circus that goes with it - ramps up into full swing. Though there are no immediate suspects, the similarities to Sutter's own abduction are pointing in an uncomfortable direction, and as this already-fragile man tries to rectify his unknown past with this turbulent present, missing fragments come to light in ways that transform not only the man, but the case, and the lives of everyone involved. A psychological thriller dealing with issues of identity, victimhood, and the many forms of family, HERITAGE is a taut and surprising mystery where no one is certain and nothing can be trusted