Described by one fond reader on Amazon.com as “a great lost book,” a cult novel that amounts to a loving satiric tribute to cinema schlockmeister Roger Corman is back in print. The novel, Brock Brower’s “The Late Great Creature,” which was nominated for a National Book Award in 1973, is now available at Amazon thanks to the tender ministrations of genius publisher Peter Mayer at Overlook Press (whose ongoing P.G. Wodehouse series of beautiful hardcover reprints is cause for literary euphoria). Brower’s novel is centered on the adventures of a fading star called Simon Moro who, Vincent Price or Peter Cushing-like, is filming his last feature, an adaptation of Poe’s “The Raven.” Naturally, a gory finale is to be expected for the actor’s life. But the story winds back on itself to earlier times in a manner that “suggests a younger Nabokov who has been nurtured on a diet of creepy old movies.” Or, if you like, it’s “like a circus with several brilliant performances going on at the same time,” as Joan Didion wrote about the book.