Thursday, September 18, 2025

The Shadow Library: Well, That Was a Thing

 











Invasion of The Body Snatchers...A Fotonovel Publication 

Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Photostory...ed. by Richard J. Anobile...Pocket Books 

The following titles are all Mandala Productions Fotonovels published by Bantam Books: 

The City on the Edge of Forever

Where No Man Has Gone Before

The Trouble with Tribbles

A Taste of Armageddon

Metamorphosis

A Piece of the Action

The Devil in the Dark

Day of the Dove

Amok Time 

Thinking about Plaza Del Rey the other day reminded me of these Star Trek Fotonovels we used to buy. I seemed to recall I'd made a list of them before, and sure enough there they were on a fifteen year-old post. Where they are now and what happened to them is still lost in the mists of my memory. "Included are books in the Fotonovel form, which in the days before VCRs were the closest thing poor folks could have to watching their favorite episodes whenever they wanted." - Power of Babel, October 2010.

Update: John reminds me that it was he who was buying the Fotonovels. They were 'resting' in my library for a time. I often use the phrase 'we had' something when I can't remember exactly whose in the collective things were. And he tells me that they now reside safely in his library. So mystery solved.

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