Thomas Burchfield: 6 books

Call him Dracula. Conqueror by moonlight, bringer of storms, terrorist ruler of our dream world, Dracula has haunted the souls of readers and moviegoers for over a century, a monster for all seasons. Now, in a new adaptation originally conjured for the screen, the King of the Vampires becomes an avatar...

The place: America. The time: closer than we may realize. Unemployment is in high double-digits. The acrid stench of civil war smokes the air. The 1930s Great Depression all over . . . just a little more high-tech. Arch and Tess Uglias are blue-collar residents of the desolate Rust Belt city of Gary,...

Some men are so blind, only Evil can make them see. Chip Adams may be nearing his forties, but the world looks the same as it did when he was a kid. He lives in a sheltered neighborhood in a San Francisco suburb in the house where he was born, a museum of childhood memories he shares with his adoring...

In the noble tradition of movie comedies such as the oeuvre of Abbott & Costello and SOME LIKE IT HOT; the meditations of Mel Brooks and Richard Lester; the penetrating drama of AIRPLANE! and THE HANGOVER, comes WHACKERS, an original and unproduced screenplay by Thomas Burchfield, the author of...

They Say He Died in the Land Beyond the Forest . . . But They Were Wrong! For a century, Dracula--the Prince of Nightmares, the Superman of Evil--has been quietly sowing impish dreams in the sleeping souls of a High Sierra community who only know him as the eccentric recluse who lives under the forbidding...

Paul Bacon*,* ex-Navy boxer and fun-loving, Jazz-Age fashion plate, moved to 1920s California for the endless sunshine, oranges, and bright, white beaches. But all he finds is loneliness and misery in the chilly, fog-choked canyons of San Francisco. One night, homesick and miserable, he meets,...