Guillermo del Toro is an outstanding visionary of modern cinema, the author of such international hits as Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone, Hellboy and The Formula of Water (the film was nominated for thirteen Oscars and won four). No less legendary are the films he never directed: an adaptation of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, a steampunk version of The Count of Monte Cristo called The Left Hand of Darkness... This book not only contains del Toro's account of all his cherished projects, realized and unfulfilled, but also gives you a unique opportunity to peek into the master's creative process, leaf through his work notebooks, and explore the collection he has been amassing throughout his life: 'Bleak House can safely be called a cabinet of curiosities, my cabinet of curiosities. I devoted myself to collecting... because my collection is the world as I imagine it. 'As I see it in my soul.'
'The artifact you hold in your hands is a unique portal, allowing you to see the gears of an astonishing mind turning. It is not without reason that Guillermo del Toro's notebooks are compared to Leonardo da Vinci's codices: both reflect the creative process of a genius unique to his era, and perhaps to history as a whole. In the entire world of cinema, there is no one who can compare to Guillermo del Toro...' (James Cameron).