Hollywood Cauldron: Thirteen Horror Films from the Genres Golden Age »

Thirteen of Hollywood's horror classics in detail: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), The Old Dark House(1932), The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), Mark of the Vampire (1935), Mad Love (1935), The Black Room (1935), The Walking Dead (1936), Cat People (1942), Bluebeard (1944), The Lodger (1944), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Hangover Square (1945) and Bedlam (1946). From original interviews and research, the styles of the various studios (from giant M-G-M to Poverty Row's PRC), along with the performers, directors, and backstage events, are examined.

Author Biography: Gregory William Mank, a Delta, Pennsylvania, English teacher, has acted in nearly 100 stage productions. He also wrote McFarland's Karloff and Lugosi (1990, $42.50), Women in Horror Films, 1930s (1999, $45) and Women in Horror Films, 1940s (1999, $45).

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Impressivean exemplary exercise in film writing, as well as in horror scholarship