Harry Angel
Created by William Hjortsberg

A weird, uh, cross between The Exorcist and The Maltese Falcon. You've probably seen the movie Angel Heart by now, starring Mickey Rourke's stubble, Robert DeNiro's fingernails, Lisa Bonet's nipples and lots of chickens. Now read the book.

It's just one hell of a read.

Down-on-his-luck New York City gumshoe HARRY ANGEL has had better days. The long-lost 1940s singing idol/war hero he's looking for, Johnny Favorite, seems to have died several years ago. And it looks like his client, a rather bizarre character named Louis Cyphre, just may be Satan out to collect an overdue debt from Favorite; namely his soul. Happens all the time, right?

A good read, especially for Hallowe'en.

NOVELS

• Falling Angel (1978)...Buy this book

FILM

• ANGEL HEART...Buy this DVD...Buy this video
  (1987, Tri Star)
  113 minutes
  Tagline: It will scare you to your very soul.
  Based on the novel "Falling Angel' by William Hjortsberg
  Screenplay by Alan Parker
  Directed by Alan Parker  
  Original music by Trevor Jones  
  Cinematography by Michael Seresin
  Produced by Elliott Kastner and Alan Marshall
  Associate producer: Robert Dattila
  Executive producers: Mario Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna
  Starring Mickey Rourke as HARRY ANGEL
  with Robert De Niro as Louis Cyphre
  and Lisa Bonet as Epiphany Proudfoot
  Also starring Charlotte Rampling, Brownie McGhee, Stocker Fontelieu, Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Eliott Keener, Charles Gordone, Dann Florek, Kathleen Wilhoite, George Buck, Judith Drake, Gerald Orange, Peggy Severe, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Dave Petitjean
  

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.