The very witching time of night : dark alleys of classic horror cinema /
"The book covers unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history from the harrowingly tragic life of Dracula's leading lady, Helen Chandler, as intimately remembered by her sister-in-law, to a tribute to Carl Laemmle, Jr., producer of the original Universal horror classics, inclu...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- "A very lonely soul": a tribute to Dracula's Helen Chandler
- Mad Jack unleashed: Svengali and the mad genius
- Paramount horrors: Murders in the zoo
- The mystery of Lionel Atwill: an interview with the son of the late, great horror star
- James Whale, Colin Clive, Lionel Atwill and the riding whip: the real-life horror story of the censorship of Universal's One more river
- "Baby-scarer!" Boris karloff at Warner Bros., 1935-1939
- Libel and old lace
- Production diaries: Cat people and The curse of the cat people
- Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man revisited
- Horror propaganda: Hitler's madman
- John Carradine and his "traveling circus"
- Shock! theatre, the "half-witch and "half-fairy" and Dr. Lucifer
- Junior Laemmle, horror's "crown prince" producer.