What is this? (Michael Myers book)

What is this? Outside of the brief (and odd) synopsis I’ve heard nothing of this book. Anyone know anything about this release?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Michael-Myers-by-Paperback-Book-French-Free-Shipping-/380694966781

The synopsis is in French, I took French but am FAR from being able to translate it so I used Google Translate and this is a rough translation:

“Michael Audrey Myers is a serial killer still at large to this day. It was scripted for the first time in the film was dedicated to him: the night of Halloween mask. The film is the true story of a young boy and he made his first victim at the age of 6 years. The character appeared in nine films, as well as novels, a video game and several comic books. The first character is the antagonist series Halloween films, except the third episode, that is not connected in continuity with the rest of the films.”

Are they trying to say Halloween is based on true events?

I have vague memories of another member owning one of these awhile back. I don’t think it had any particularly special or unique about it, contained mostly movie stills with average design work. A nice little curio from across the pond. Oddly enough the listing says the book is in English. If you didn’t like the book you could probably send it back on that technicality.

@Night Shadow - That’s kind of the way I was taking it, like it was a piece of fiction with the angle that the fictional “HALLOWEEN” was based on true events. Kind of interesting if did correctly.

Ramonesome - Never heard of this one myself, was curious if there was anything warranting a look.

Thanks for the responses guys.

So after thinking about it more, this is definitely not the same book I remember another member having. That one had a double spread pic of Michael in the hallway scene. This one doesn’t even feature him on the cover, a bit of a red flag. You’d think that would be the iconic selling point. So I poked around…

The printer of the book, DIGN PRESS, seems to republish public domain or “copyleft material” (stuff it doesn’t own but can’t be sued for essentially). Here’s a look at some of their titles, all with the same cover design as the Myers book in the auction. I could not find an english language site for the company.

http://www.fishpond.com.au/c/Books/p/Dign+Press

Here’s another copy of the same Myers book with a similar but slightly different cover, this edition is offered by Alpha Script Publishing. They claim the content for the book “primarily consists from wikipedia and other online sources.”

https://www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/michael-myers-halloween/isbn/978-613-0-78042-5

This copies publisher, Alpha Script Publishing, isn’t as discrete as DIGN PRESS. On the front of their company web site they admit to publishing academic papers and “copyleft publishing.”

https://www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/michael-myers-halloween/isbn/978-613-0-78042-5

Basically this “book” wasn’t written by anyone. Someone at a publishing mill wanted an instant book on Myers without having to pay anyone for their work or without using his likeness. An intern probably spent an afternoon copying and pasting content they found after a google search. It very well may contain posts from this very site.

I wouldn’t but it.

-Jason

That’s all I need to know. Don’t need another paper weight lying around! :laughing: