A legend is born …

In 1972, Jeff Rice’s novel The Night Stalker introduced Carl Kolchak to the world. This spine-tingling novel of supernatural terror became a bestseller and served as the basis for the film of the same name, starring Darren McGavin and modified by renowned Twilight Area screenwriter Richard Matheson. FOLLOWING THE Night time Stalker became among the highest graded television movies ever, a sequel, The Night Strangler, was released the following 12 months to great acclaim.

Carl about The Kolchak Papers: THE INITIAL Novels Kolchak, while the world’s first paranormal investigator, would prove to be an irresistible pull for viewers and inspire a regular dramatic tv series which debuted in 1974.

A legend returns …

Now, after more than three decades out of printing, Kolchak’s originator Jeff Rice has released the original novels which sparked the television phenomenon! At last, THE NIGHT TIME Stalker and THE NIGHT TIME Strangler are jointly in one quantity … The Kolchak Documents!

Twenty-one years before Kolchak motivated Chris Carter to create The X-Files, there was only 1 paranormal investigator. Now fans almost everywhere can relive the journeys of Carl Kolchak within this single, remarkable quantity! “Fans from the cult TV series starring Darren McGavin, aswell as its better known successors like The X-Files, should benefit from the author’s mixture of horror and humor.”-Publishers Weekly