{"id":1324,"date":"2012-02-08T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2012-02-08T00:03:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T06:03:34","slug":"devil-bat-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"DEVIL BAT DIARY"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Inspired by the famous 1940 film, “Devil Bat Diary”(CreateSpace, ISBN: 9-781461-070924), tells the “true”story of what really happened to the unhappy citizens of Heathville, Illinois, during that terrible prewar summer, as recorded in the long-suppressed journals of Chicago City Register’s principal newspaper correspondent, Jonathan “Johnny”Layton.<\/p>\n

The Devil Bats were furiously furry fiends created by a scientific genius who believes himself wrongfully relegated to concocting perfumes and colognes which he despises for wages not worth mentioning. So, as a means to an embittered end, he manufactures an evil ointment with a scent that so infuriates his giant bats to such an extent they feel compelled to tear the throats out of their unsuspecting victims.<\/p>\n

“Devil Bat Diary”tells for the first time the full inside story of what took place in ways not possible to show to Production Code audiences back then; did you know for example that Chief Wilkins loved Layton, or that Mary was a religious lunatic, or that
\nLayton and his partner “One-Shot”McGuire couldn’t stand the sight of each other?<\/p>\n

Written to coincide with the 70th Anniversary of the films release and dedicated to the great Bela Lugosi, “Devil Bat Diary”is an unforgettably entertaining venture into a world filled with chirping Chiropterans, malicious murders, sacred sex and revolting revelations.<\/p>\n

(Three-time Rondo Award nominee Peter H. Brothers is also the author of “Mushroom
\nClouds and Mushroom Men The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda.)