What's 40 years between novelizations?

 When I was a kid I had seen the paperback novelization of John Carpenter's Halloween on a spinner rack and really wanted to buy the thing.  I didn't, because no one would float me the $2.95.  So I looked for it for a long time, never stumbled across it at a library, and kinda gave up hope on it.   Then eBay came along, and I began a search.  

Holy shit, people really?

I get it dates back 40 plus years, and it's attached to a major fan IP, but $400.00 for a paperback?  

So I pretty much abandoned all hope because, even though I'm a physical media geek of films and music, I'm also a frugal one that believes that down the road there's another shot at it.  Sometimes the hunt is the fun, and the wait is part of the hunt. 

Well, here we go.  A publishing company called Printed In Blood that specializes in art from horror and fantasy films and comics re-released the text for the novelization, but accented with full color, and book sized art.  It really is a wonderful product, and a shit ton easier on the wallet.  So I ordered the item directly from the publisher because there are peenbones on the eBay market jacking the price of the thing to the moon despite the fact that it's not nearly out of print.  I decided to do one of those video unboxing thingies on this because, well, I'm a geek.

I know, I know, it sucks.  I can do video, but I just didn't have the energy to write and choreograph something like I do with holiday videos and soda-pop reviews.  Frani did a nice job with the shoot, though.   Anyway, its a hell of an item. and I'm glad to finally read this thing in book form.