Created By
A Novel
Published on 13. April 2011
396 pages
978-0-307-78873-3 (ISBN)
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"Devastating . . . a masterly fable, told with insight, wit, and welcome venom . . . this is Hollywood Hell."-Clive Barker
Alan White is a hot young writer-producer looking for the one megahit every Hollywood writer dreams about. He thinks he's found it with a new TV show called The Mercenary. The network has never seen anything like it. Sex. Violence. Nudity. This time they're taking it to the max and the Nielsen ratings are shooting through the roof. Alan couldn't be happier. Until the morning's headlines start to read like a rerun of last night's episode. Until The Mercenary begins to take on a terrifying life of its own. Until it becomes chillingly clear that Alan must cancel his creation-before it cancels him.
"[Created By] gets the reader into a wrestler's grip and will not let him go."-Peter Straub
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Richard Christian Matheson
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Richard Matheson (1926-2013) is the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Legend, Hell House, Somewhere in Time, The Incredible Shrinking Man, A Stir of Echoes, and What Dreams May Come, among others. He was named a Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention, and received the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He has also won the Edgar, the Spur, and the Writer's Guild awards. In 2010, he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. In addition to his novels, Matheson wrote screenplays, and he wrote for several Twilight Zone episodes, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," based on his short story.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Teaser
- Act One
- The Pitch
- Setting
- Character Motivation
- Casting
- Back Story
- Dissolve
- Messages
- Subtext
- Outline
- Transition
- Lunch
- Ugly Gossip
- Lunch Two
- Zoom
- Subtext Two
- Two Months Later
- Creative Differences
- Demands
- P.O.V.
- Act Two
- Ten Weeks Later
- Reviews
- Overnights
- Go - Ahead
- Inspiration
- Sympathetic Character
- Close-Up
- Ten Percent
- Flashback
- Three Months Later
- Talk Show
- Preemption
- Perks
- Hero's Fear
- Villain Nears
- Transition Two
- Feedback
- Station Break
- Complication
- Love Interest
- Subtext Three
- Ten Percent Two
- Script
- Break Up
- High Concept
- Violence
- Guest Appearance
- Ten Percent Three
- Subtitles
- Arc
- Ugly Twist
- Subtext Four
- Partial Reveal
- Conflict
- Suspects
- Advice
- Horror
- Reverse Angle
- TV Guide
- Hero's Collapse
- Subtext Five
- Awards
- Crisis Point
- Realization
- Moral Support
- Ten Percent Four
- Revenge
- Reversal
- Hidden Motives
- Twist
- Finale
- Climax
- Ten Months Later
- Epilogue
- About the Author
