John Wooley

In 1929, a transplanted Arkansas sawmill owner named J.M. Davis decided to put his collection of 99 firearms on display in the lobby of his Claremore, Oklahoma, hotel. Some 40 years later, on Davis's 82nd birthday, the artifacts found a permanent home at the Claremore's J.M. David Arms and Historical Museum, an internationally known tourist attraction celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2019. Today, thousands of visitors a year marvel at exhibits featuring statuary, knives, swords, saddles, American Indian artifacts, political buttons, World War I posters, and many other items--all in addition to the most extensive private collection of guns on the face of the earth. With words and pictures, this book tells the behind-the-scenes story of the museum and John Monroe Davis--the man, his times, and his amazing acquisitions.

The life and film genius of A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream director Wes CravenWes Craven is one of the most successful and iconic horror movie directors in Hollywood. His masterful examination of the nightmarish nexus of dreams and reality helped spark a career that has spanned close to forty years. Then, with their mix of horror, sex, and humor, Craven's Scream movies helped revitalize the slasher film genre.An absorbing portrait of cult film director Wes Craven's life and career in film Draws on the author's new interviews with Craven, including little-known details about the director's life and work Insights into the making of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies and the Scream films--the #1 horror franchise of all time Fascinating stories about the director's work with a range of producers, screenwriters, and actors, including Robert Englund Publication timing ties in with the release of Scream 4 If you've ever had nightmares about Freddy Krueger or psychopaths wearing Halloween scream masks, or if want to know more about the director behind the new Scream 4, this is one book you simply have to read.

Seventh-sense possessor Robert A. Brown (The Cleansing) moves from the haunted hills of Arkansas to the bustling metropolis of pre-World War II Washington, D.C., a city laced with mystery and intrigue, magic and menace. In no time at all, Robert finds himself neck-deep in a whirlpool of horror, fending off a German werewolf, a hideous ancient Japanese spirit, and a profusion of ape-creatures with saucer-like eyes. And that doesn't even count the more prosaic antagonists, including a whole division of young Nazi Bund members intent on seeing him dead.This is the most action- and horror-packed entry from Robert A. Brown and John Wooley yet. Beauty and the Bund comes with an evocative new cover by Jonathan Wooley, John's son, who has been busy for the past several years making a name for himself in the worldwide gaming scene, creating tokens and other special art and artifacts through Team Covenant, the world's No. 1 retailer of independent tabletop games. His creations have enhanced such popular titles as Netrunner, Arkham Horror, and Marvel Champions.

Billy Parker will always be one of the greats...I'm proud that he has this autobiography to really show who he was and is. Dolly PartonA lover of country music and broadcasting from his earliest days, Billy Parker took his first tentative steps into both those fields while still in his teens, leading to lasting renown as both a top-rated deejay and country recording artist. Following a stint as the front man for Ernest Tubb's famed Texas Troubadours, Billy returned to his native Oklahoma, where he originated one of the first nationally known overnight radio shows of the '70s. For years, Billy's voice rode nightly over the mighty airwaves of the original KVOO, a 50,000-watt flamethrower that spread Billy Parker's Big Rigger show all across the country. Later, as program director for the station, he helped many country performers at all levels, becoming well-known for giving everyone a fair shake, regardless of their stature in the industry. Thanks - Thanks A Lot doesn't just refer to the famous hit record he cut back in the 1960s; it's also Billy Parker's sincere nod to those who helped make him what he is today: a performer with several national hits; a trailblazing, multiple-award-winning deejay; and-as the call letters of the station that brought him stardom indicate -nothing less than the Voice of Oklahoma. Billy was so important to the Oak Ridge Boys. He helped break all our songs and the Midwest followed. Billy was a trusted voice of radio. I am so blessed that our paths crossed and we became good friends for over five decades. Duane Allen (of the Oak Ridge Boys)

Some secrets are best left buried...As The Cleansing trilogy roars to a conclusion, trouble and terror assail WPA Folklore Project writer Robert A. Brown from all sides, boiling up in a cauldron of horror that threatens to destroy both him and his extraordinary "seventh sense."This concluding volume of the three-book series, following Seventh Sense and Satan's Swine, finds Robert on the trail of eldritch secrets thought to be long buried in the remote town of Mackaville, Arkansas, a place with a shocking past that Robert finally unearths - to his everlasting horror.Set in 1939 and told via letters sent to his friend John Wooley, Sinister Serpent completes the trilogy that has earned praise from critics and readers for its vivid evocation of the best of the weird-pulp literature of the '30s. Will Robert Brown and his seventh sense survive a final all-out, mind-numbing attack?Praise For The Cleansing Trilogy"The Cleansing will bear mentioning in the same breath with Lovecraft and Robert Bloch and Robert E. Howard, with as compelling a voice as any such Architects of the Weird."- Michael H. Price, author of the Forgotten Horrors series"...like entering a time machine and reading a great pulp magazine from the 1930's "- Bruce Hershenson, dealer and publisher"Out of place, stranded, surrounded by secrets - you had me at creepy little town....Writers have been telling horror stories through letters since Mary Shelley set quill to paper. Robert A. Brown and John Wooley bring back that quaint old object, the typewriter, and find it haunted by history." - Ron Wolfe, author of Hellraiser and Knights of the Living Dead

It was supposed to be a car dealership. Instead, it became one of the most famous American music venues of all time...Only one place in the whole world can claim to be both the Carnegie Hall of western swing and the penultimate stop on the Sex Pistols' infamous American tour. Now, for the first time ever, all the secrets of the hottest honky-tonk of the 20th Century--Cain's Ballroom--are revealed, in the words of the people who made it happen.Spanning the famed venue's first 75 years, from 1924 through 1999, Twentieth-Century Honky-Tonk tells it all, from Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys--who became a national sensation with their clear-channel ballroom broadcasts--to U2, the Police, and Van Halen--as Cain's became an essential stop for breakout acts and cosmic cowboys. The book also covers cutting-edge alt-rock acts, metal bands, and off-the-wall attractions like ladies' mud wrestling (which worked) and Pig Time Racing (which didn't)./p>BuyTwentieth-Century Honky-Tonk for the fascinating (and unauthorized) story of this fabled hardwood hangout's first seven-and-a-half decades. It's a honky-tonk fever dream

1939. Welcome back to Mackaville, Arkansas, a small town in the Ozarks where nothing is what it seems. Strangers are suspect. Animals are restless. And the townsfolk harbor horrible secrets.WPA Folklore Project worker Robert Brown-the man with the extrasensory powers he calls his "seventh sense" - finds himself surrounded by black magic. After a brutal rattlesnake attack, Robert faces an invasion of feral hogs - including two that turn out to be more than animals. Unsure who he can trust, Robert escapes to St. Louis with David Garland Jefferson, a man obsessed by the unspeakable terrors of his past.The unearthly horror continues in this second volume of the critically acclaimed trilogy, The Cleansing. Robert must tap all his friends and every power he possesses if he hopes to survive the impending doom closing in on him-and everyone else in Mackaville, Arkansas.

For the first time ever, the top right-handed pitcher on the fabled New York Yankees teams of the early 1960s chronicles his life in both baseball and professional golf. The only man in major-league history to throw the final pitch in two World Series Game Sevens, Ralph Terry takes us inside the dugouts and onto the fields with a wealth of remembrances about his teammates and foes, including such unforgettable athletes as Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Yogi Berra, Billy Martin, and Elston Howard, to name only a few.A must for any sports fan, RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE celebrates the life and times of a star pitcher - and, later, successful pro golfer - who exchanged the dusty diamonds of his tiny Oklahoma hometown for the manicured playing field of Yankee Stadium, becoming a baseball legend in the process.

In 1939, as war clouds mushroom around Depression-era America, former Civilian Conservation Corps worker Robert Brown finds himself with a new government job- gathering tales from ancient denizens of the Ozark Mountains. Possessed of an extrasensory intuitive skill he calls his seventh sense, Robert is no stranger to magic or the preternatural. He is, however, woefully underprepared for the animalistic horrors he discovers on this assignemnt--and the ancient horrors he unleashes."A thin line, indeed, between Arkham and Arkansas - between the Lovecraftian concept of a cosmically plagued village and The Cleansing and its view of a rustic Southern region infested with a species of compromised humanity that might give H.P. Lovecraft pause. Robert A. Brown and John Wooley, natural-born storytellers with a sense of history and its ghastlier undercurrents, deliver an account of compassionate determination in opposition to the most appalling material circumstances. The Cleansing will bear mentioning in the same breath with Lovecraft and Robert Bloch and Robert E. Howard, with as compelling a voice of originality as any such Architects of the Weird. And why does the termMachiavellian spring to mind when I hear the name of Mackaville, Arkansas?"- Michael H. Price, Forgotten Horrors

Michael H. Price's "Forgotten Horrors" series veers into the "Beach Party" movie craze of the 1960s, turning up unprecedented insights into the origins of the phenomenon and its connection to exotic filmmaking trends of earlier times. Price and co-author John Wooley make a point of exploring the Acquanetta-to-Annette connection between 1940s Hollywood and 1960s Hollywood -- only one of many revelations in store.

Michael H. Price's forays into the horrors of Texas -- real and imaginary, horripilating and often humorous, make for a whopping 300 pages of comic-book stories. Featuring such championship artists and authors as John Wooley, Rand Holmes, Jack "Jaxon" Jackson, Bernie Wrightson, Pat Boyette, Robert Hayward Webb, and Meatwood Flack. Not to mention a premiere appearance for the "Killer Shrews" graphic novella, based upon the 1959 film and its 2015 revamp at Texas' Hip Pocket Theatre. From the authors of the "Forgotten Horrors" series of movie-history books.

Onward through the 1960s forges Michael H. Price's acclaimed "Forgotten Horrors" series of movie-genre studies, pausing this time at the pivotal years of 1962-1964, the better to unearth such rarities as "Flaming Creatures," "Pyro," and "Dr. Crippen," in context with the more generally well-known horror and SF titles of the period. With heavy-duty additional contributions from John Wooley and Frank Stack, and an insightful discussion of the "Beach Party" craze and its kinship to the horror-movie scene.