Focusing primarily on the cinema, but encompassing literature, television, radio, popular music, history and folklore, this text provides a secret history of the horror genre from its pre-cinema beginnings in the 18th-century gothic novel and the Victorian ghost story through 100 years of film. In addition to entries on actors, directors, writers, technicians, horror-themed films and television series, the book provides essays on classic horror characters like Frankenstein and Dracula.
| ISBN: | 9780304332137 |
| Publication date: | 28th November 1996 |
| Author: | Kim Newman, British Film Institute |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Continuum an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Genres: |
Popular culture |