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Dracula (Norton Critical Editions)
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Dracula is one of the few horror books to be honored by inclusion in the Norton Critical Edition series. (The others are Frankenstein, The Turn of the Screw, Heart of Darkness, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Metamorphosis.) This 100th-anniversary edition includes not only the complete authoritative text of... »
The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror; Revised Edition with a New Afterword
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This study of the visual horror genre from Dr. Caligari to Dr. Hannibal Lecter starts with a discussion of Diane Arbus's photographs of freaks. David Skal then suggests that he will seek to "explain why the images resonated in the culture ... [and] why so much of our imaginative life in the 20th century has been devoted to peeling back the masks and sc... »
Vampires: Encounters With the Undead
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i recommend this book highly to anyone who has an interest in vampires. not only does it contain stories from classic gothic styling to present, the side bars provide very interesting information about vampires in general and the background of the stories and authors. this is like getting a well resarched "the vampire book" and a compilation of the gre... »
Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula fr
I first heard of David Skal from the Universal Classic Monster series of DVD's. David was on the accompanying documentary and did the audio commentary fo... »
The Living And The Dead
...I loved the Living and the Dead. The hook into the Frankenstein myth pulled me into the story, which was wonderfully dark without being over-the-top. ... »
Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning
Although Tod Browning directed the 1931 classic Dracula and some of Lon Chaney's best movies, he is better known today for Freaks, which eff... »
Screams of Reason: Mad Science in Modern Cultur
The words "mad scientist" inevitably summon up the picture of a deranged, obsessive individual with a lab coat and bad hair, working on some grandiose pr... »
V Is for Vampire: The A-Z Guide to Everything U
"V is for Vampire" doesn't hold a candle to David J. Skal's other books - nearly all of which are minor classics - and he knows it. He admits in his intro... »
MONSTER SHOW: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF HORROR
Dracula: The Ultimate, Illustrated Edition of t
This is a nice edition of the "Dracula" play that entertained audiences in the 1920s before being transformed into a classic film in 1931. The book contai... »
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