His score for THE MASK OF ZORRO is another favorite.

I’ve seen all those other movies, though!

Great stuff!

And how have I never seen “Nude on the Moon”?

Okay. You win.

A thesaurus. Which is only surprising, I guess, in that I still prefer my old paperback Roget’s Thesaurus to any on-line versions.

Looking back, I was clearly drawn to novels about the inevitability of

Thanks! True confession: I wrote that book in one month! It was a marathon.

I wanted to do some more ROSWELL books, but there were schedule conflicts . ...

Oh, funny trivia: In France, “Loose Ends” was published as “The Assassins Never Forget.” Really!

Oh, yeah. I was a big Roswell fan, and even wrote the first tie-in book based on the show based on the books . . . .

A non-Dracula vampire set would be great: KISS OF THE VAMPIRE, VAMPIRE CIRCUS, CAPTAIN KRONOS, COUNTESS DRACULA, and maybe even VAMPIRE LOVERS and its sequels. (Or maybe the Karnstein trilogy deserves its own set?)

Hmm. I’ve already got most of those on DVD, but I’ll be curious to see what’s in volume 2. Maybe SCARS OF DRACULA, which I’m not sure I’ve ever seen, or my favorite Hammer vampire flick: BRIDES OF DRACULA.

Here’s hoping . . ..

I confess I had about nine episodes piled up on the DVR, unwatched, when the machine gave up the ghost and I lost them all . ..

“but something of a guilty pleasure nonetheless.”

I mean, you had a former schoolteacher who awoke from a coma with precognitive powers, you had all the angst with his former love who had since moved on and married someone else, you even had the Greg Stillson story arc surfacing a few times each season . ...

Compared to HAVEN, that’s practically reverent to the source…

To be fair, Batman has been rebooted and reworked so many time, both onscreen and in the comic pages, that there really is no definitive text to stray from . . ..

Compared to most of the examples above, THE DEAD ZONE was a model of fidelity to the novel.

To be fair, it’s not just a Syfy thing. All the other networks do the same thing, as proven by the list above—in which only two out of the eleven examples were Syfy productions.

Other contenders:

A textbook case. The book is a murder mystery with no fantasy elements and no mysterious heroine named Audrey Parker. The show is a bizarre sci-fi/fantasy thing with time-travel, etc.

But watch the credits: “Based on ‘The Colorado Kid’ by Stephen King.”

Ahem. I’ll put “Horror of Dracula” up against the Lugosi version OR “Nosferatu” any day. They’re all classic films.

And come to think of it, Lee was also memorable in the Richard Lester’s “The Three Musketeers” and “The Four Musketeers”—which were the umpteenth remakes of the Dumas tale, and yet still managed to be the…