Explores unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history, from the harrowingly tragic life of Dracula 's leading lady, Helen Chandler, to John Barrymore's 1931 horror vehicles Svengali and The Mad Genius, to the stage and screen versions of the horror/comedy Arsenic and Old Lace, to the Shock Theatre television phenomenon.
Explores unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history, from the harrowingly tragic life of Dracula 's leading lady, Helen Chandler, to John Barrymore's 1931 horror vehicles Svengali and The Mad Genius, to the stage and screen versions of the horror/comedy Arsenic and Old Lace, to the Shock Theatre television phenomenon.
Gregory William Mank has written and recorded many DVD and Blu-Ray audio commentaries, has won four Rondo Awards, and has written numerous books on classic horror films. He lives in Delta, Pennsylvania.
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Table of Contents Introduction 1. "A Very Lonely Soul": A Tribute to Dracula's Helen Chandler 2. Mad Jack Unleashed: Svengali and The Mad Genius 3. Paramount Horrors: Murders in the Zoo 4. The Mystery of Lionel Atwill: An Interview with the Son of the Late, Great Horror Star 5. James Whale, Colin Clive, Lionel Atwill and the Riding Whip: The Real-Life Horror Story of the Censorship of Universal's One More River 6. "Baby-Scarer!" Boris Karloff at Warner Bros., 1935-1939 7. Libel and Old Lace 8. Production Diaries: Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People 9. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man Revisited 10. Horror Propaganda: Hitler's Madman 11. John Carradine and His "Traveling Circus" 12. Shock! Theatre, the "Half-Witch and Half-Fairy" and Dr. Lucifer 13. Junior Laemmle, Horror's "Crown Prince" Producer Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Introduction 1. "A Very Lonely Soul": A Tribute to Dracula's Helen Chandler 2. Mad Jack Unleashed: Svengali and The Mad Genius 3. Paramount Horrors: Murders in the Zoo 4. The Mystery of Lionel Atwill: An Interview with the Son of the Late, Great Horror Star 5. James Whale, Colin Clive, Lionel Atwill and the Riding Whip: The Real-Life Horror Story of the Censorship of Universal's One More River 6. "Baby-Scarer!" Boris Karloff at Warner Bros., 1935-1939 7. Libel and Old Lace 8. Production Diaries: Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People 9. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man Revisited 10. Horror Propaganda: Hitler's Madman 11. John Carradine and His "Traveling Circus" 12. Shock! Theatre, the "Half-Witch and Half-Fairy" and Dr. Lucifer 13. Junior Laemmle, Horror's "Crown Prince" Producer Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
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