Winner of the Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Fiction, presented at the 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards.

Winner in the Best First Book - Fiction category of the USA Best Books Awards 2011.

"You ever hunt werewolf, Whitney?" It is 1903 and that's only one of many unexpected questions asked of young zoologist Gerard Whitney when hired by eccentric Oklahoma cattle rancher Harold B. Tucker. He discovers his employer's true passion is traveling the world in search of legendary creatures. In his first novel, veteran screenwriter S. S. Wilson (Tremors, Short Circuit, The Wild Wild West) offers up a rollicking adventure in which wide-eyed Whitney learns about werewolves, mummies, ghosts, and even meets a mad scientist. On a more subtle level, Wilson also pokes ample fun at classic horror movie clichés as he careens toward an unexpected (and Hollywood sized) climax. "You won't be disappointed when you pick up a copy of Tucker's Monster." Ron Underwood - director.

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Jim West (Will Smith) is a guns-a-blazing former Civil War hero. Artemus Gordon (Kevin Kline) is an inventive U.S. Marshal who excels in disguise. When the United States is threatened by psychotic Confederate Arliss Loveless, President Ulysses Grant (also Kevin Kline) teams the duo up to bring him to justice. On a hazard-packed train journey from Washington to Utah, West and Gordon must combine their skills to best Loveless and his diabolical machines.

Historical Note: Short Circuit was made well before Stampede was founded, but it was the first stepping stone in the path to having our own company. Our own S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock had been working in relative obscurity, making educational films for schools and libraries. They wrote the script for Short Circuit in their spare time. Separately and together they’d written four other "spec" scripts, but hadn’t been able to sell them. This one found its way to agent Nancy Roberts (now Stampede President) Producer David Foster, and finally to director John Badham (of Saturday Night Fever and WarGames fame.) It became a "go" movie almost overnight. Maddock and Wilson were on their way.

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• Includes: Tremors, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Tremors 3: Back to Perfection and Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
• The Making of Tremors
• Outtakes
• Featurette
• Theatrical Trailers
• Kevin Bacon Profile
• Michael Gross Profile
• Reba McEntire Profile
• Production Photographs
• Tremors 2: Aftershocks Trailer

Historical Note: Tremors 2: Aftershocks was Universal's first movie released in the DVD format so collectors you will want to get your copy on DVD and be a part of movie history. The Tremors 2:Aftershocks DVD also includes several bonus features. First of all, it is letterboxed (has the original full screen image). It includes production notes, notes on cast and crew, and the original trailer. Also, for those of you who have been dying to see the film dubbed in French or subtitled in Spanish, the DVD disk can be viewed in those modes.

The original writing team that brought you Tremors is back once again with the much anticipated third installment in this classic saga of man vs. ever changing Precambrian monster.

It has been years since the underground monsters attacked the quiet desert town of Perfection Nevada. While some townspeople have put the incident totally out of their minds others are trying to keep the mystique alive for the sake of the towns only industry, Graboid Tourism. Unfortunately the town's underground monster tourism business takes a turn for the worst when tourists realize they have just been added to the menu.

Yes the Graboids are back and this time they have mutated into the most deadly killing machines yet! The town's only hope is none other than the now famous Graboid hunter Burt Gummer (Michael Gross). But will all Burt's guns be enough? Please tell me they will be enough!!!

Stampede's very own S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock wrote Tremors 3 and Brent Maddock even steps up to the plate as director. You are in for nothing less than a classic Tremors thrill ride so hang on!

When workers in a remote mining town of Rejection, Nevada, fall prey to an unseen creature, the mine's owner, Hiram Gummer (Michael Gross), great-grandfather to Tremors' Burt Gummer, hires a mercenary to destroy the carnivorous creatures before they swallow up his profits. What follows is an all-out assault that takes the battleground from deep in the earth to a suspense-filled showdown on the streets of Rejection!

Tremors 4:The Legend Begins will thrill you with incredible action sequences, awesome bonus features and earth-shaking special effects created by the award-winning team behind the original box-office hit, Tremors.

Note: This film will ship in DVD format January 2nd. 2004. It will not be available in VHS format until sometime in early 2004.

From the makers of the Tremors films come the Sci-Fi channel classis Tremors The Series. Inspired by the movies that have become beloved cult classics, this fun, thrilling TV series reveals more of the down ’n’ dirty battles as the locals attempt to coexist with the Graboids, Shriekers and Ass Blasters now on the "protected species" list, including a particularly large Graboid nicknamed "El Blanco." Add to the craziness a combination of secret labs, the gene-blending "Mixmaster" and the occasional fanatical tourist, and there’s never a dull moment in Perfection.

See all 13 full episodes

1. Feeding Frenzy
2. Ghost Dance
3. Night of the Shriekers
4. Blast from the Past
5. Flora or Fauna
6. Hit and Run
7. A Little Paranoia Among Friends
8. Project 4-12
9. Graboid Rights
10. The Sounds of Silence
11. The Key
12. Water Hazard
13. Shriek and Destroy .

You’ll have to look hard for their names, (read the "crawl titles" at the end very closely) but Brent Maddock and S. S. Wilson did a lot of work on Land Before Time. Steven Spielberg asked them to do some revisions on the existing script very late in animation pre-production. He and George Lucas wanted the characters to be more likable. Storyboards had been already been done and Brent and Steve were told they couldn’t change the planned action, but they could change anything the dinosaurs said. Eventually, just by changing dialogue they actually changed the basic idea of the story. Where it had originally been about lost little dinosaurs competing to be the leader, it became lost little dinosaurs learning to work together. This new idea even became the basis for the theme song. Side note: Brent came up with most of talkative Ducky’s dialogue, including his popular, "Yup, yup, yup."

Starting with a story by Mick Garris and a script by Brad Byrd and director Matthew Robbins ,Wilson and Maddock co-wrote this film. Steven Spielberg had originally intended it as an Amazing Story (that TV series was in production at the time), but later decided it should be a full blown feature film. It was especially exciting to be writing for veteran actors Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy.

This is one of those movies with a convoluted history. Steven Spielberg had read Short Circuit, liked it, and asked Maddock and Wilson to do a rewrite on a script titled Ghost Boy, about a boy who dies and comes back to live with his family. After many meetings it was decided to change the story to Ghost Dad, and try to come up with a way for him to not really be dead at the end. Maddock and Wilson wrote a version with those elements. The movie was cast and special effects tests were made with a major star. Then, as sometimes happens in Hollywood, the "deal" fell apart. The star and director went on to other things and the script got "shelved." It was re-considered off and on, rewritten at least once by other writers, then finally made when Bill Cosby took an interest in it.