At Insight Editions, I am indebted to publisher Raoul Goff, without whom this book would still be an idea. And thank you to Marc Scott Zicree, with whom I share many affinities. Behind the scenes, editor Jake Gerli and the rest of the book team—art director Chrissy Kwasnik, designer Jon Glick, translator Mike Engle, and editorial staff Chris Prince, Rachel Anderson, and Elaine Ou—did a wonderful job molding my predilections into this fine presentation.
Thank you, too, to my representatives Richard Abate, George Hayum, and Gary Ungar, for standing by me and guiding me through this book development process.
Without these kindred spirits in the world of filmmaking, there would be much less of a story to tell about the notebooks and my films: Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar, Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustín, Arthur H. Gorson, Elena Manrique, Bertha Navarro, Bernard Nussbaumer, Alejandro Springall, Telecinco, Paolo Vasile, and Jorge Vergara.
Thank you all,
CREDITS
Cover design by Jon Glick
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Guillermo del Toro: Cabinet of Curiosities
My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions
Copyright © 2013 Guillermo del Toro.
“Ode to a Master” copyright © 2013 James Cameron.
“Casa del Toro” copyright © 2013 John Landis.
“Guillermo and Me” copyright © 2013 Alfonso Cuarón.
“Resurrection” copyright © 2013 Ron Perlman.
“The Collecting Instinct” copyright © 2013 Adam Savage.
“Notebook Thoughts from Abroad” copyright © 2013 Neil Gaiman.
“The Magician” copyright © 2013 Cornelia Funke.
“My Days with del Toro” copyright © 2013 Mike Mignola.
“At the Mountains of Magnificence” © 2013 Tom Cruise.
“Guillermo’s Mainstays of Horror” adapted from the Foreword by Guillermo del Toro to The White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen (Penguin Classics), copyright © Guillermo del Toro, 2011; and the Penguin Horror series editor introduction by Guillermo del Toro, “Haunted Castles, Dark Mirrors: On the Penguin Horror Series” (Penguin Books), copyright © Necropia, Inc., 2013.
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