Hollywood: The King of Horror Movies

Mark Anderson had barely transmigrated into a parallel America when he discovered that he was already buried under more than $24 million in debt. In his previous life, Mark had been a promising young filmmaker who won Best New Director with his debut feature. In this life, however, his first science-fiction movie had suffered a catastrophic box-office failure, and under the performance agreement he had signed with Silverline Pictures, he was personally responsible for nearly $24 million in losses. “You lost more than twenty-four million dollars with one movie!” Silverline president Evelyn Parker snapped. “Do you expect me to sell one of your kidneys to recover my money?” Her long legs were distracting enough, but the words coming from her mouth sounded downright murderous. Mark knew she was speaking out of anger; she obviously wasn’t going to steal his kidney, but the debt written into his contract was painfully real. “Can you pay me back?” “Are you dreaming?”“…”With no way to repay such an enormous debt, Mark could only swallow his pride and make an even more shameless suggestion. “Ms. Parker… how about lending me another $1.4 million?” In a world where horror filmmakers were still recycling haunted houses, possession stories, slashers, ghosts, and familiar urban legends, Mark introduced audiences to an entirely different kind of terror. With Jaws, he made people afraid to enter the ocean. And from that movie onward, Mark Anderson began his rise toward becoming the godfather of modern horror cinema. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Hollywood: The King of Horror Movies — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠