Dead Souls: The Screenplay / The Novel

Bys: Garko, Gianni and Cox, Alex

An Ace Double paperback featuring the screenplay to Alex Cox's 'last' film - Dead Souls - plus the original Nikolai Gogol text.

Dead Souls, directed by and starring Alex Cox, is a surreal, lean, meditative, low-budget Spaghetti Western adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic novel, transposed to the 19th-century American West, that feels both literary and rebellious.

The film follows Strindler (Alex Cox), a conniving preacher buying up names of deceased Mexicans, blending political satire on greed and corruption with meta-humor, stop-motion, and musical numbers.

The story mirrors Gogol's original novel, set in a dusty, morally bankrupt frontier town where Strindler travels, collecting the names of 'dead souls' to gain power and money.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857306391
• ISBN13: 9780857306395
• Release Date: April 2027
• Publisher: Kamera Books
• Length: 528 Pages