by Stephen King
Theodore Sturgeon. Caviar; The Dreaming Jewels; Some of Your Blood*
Thomas Tessier. The Nightwalker
Paul Theroux. The Black House
Thomas Tryon. The Other*
Les Whitten. Progeny of the Adder*
Thomas Williams. Tsuga's Children*
Gahan Wilson. I Paint What I See
T. M. Wright. Strange Seed*
John Wyndham. The Chrysalids; The Day of the Triffids*
About the Author
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are Under the Dome, the Dark Tower novels, Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything's Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Lisey's Story, and Bag of Bones. His acclaimed nonfiction book On Writing was also a bestseller. He was the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Maine with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
Index
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (film), 76
Abominable Dr. Phibes, The (film), 140
Adventures of Chickenman, The (radio series), 114
Aickman, Robert, 376
Alas, Babylon (book), 9
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series), 237, 261
Alien (film), 16, 21-22, 192, 194-95, 198, 222
Aliens Are Coming, The (TV film), 236
Allegory, 9-10, 32-33, 41-43, 74, 155
Allen, Irwin, 219
Allen, Woody, 57
American-International Pictures, 31-32, 41-43
Amityville Horror, The (film), 145-53
Andromeda Strain, The (film), 169, 170
Anxiety, 108-9
Apollonian themes, 78-79, 166, 170
Approaching Oblivion (book), 404
Archer, Lee, see Ellison, Harlan
Argento, Dario, 200
Arkham House, 30, 266
Arkoff, Samuel Z., 31-32
Armadale (book), 51
Arnold, Jack, 111
Art, 137-39
Assault on a Queen (film), 259
Assault on Precinct 13 (film), 222
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman, The (film), 218-19
Attack of the Giant Leeches, The (film), 32
Avon Press, 100
Bad (film), 187
Bad Place (archetype), 278, 280-81
Bad Seed, The (film), 192
Ballard, J. G., 163n.
Beaumont, Charles, 254, 255
Beck, Calvin, 213
Beginning of the End (film), 65, 166
"Big Tall Wish, The" (TV show), 257
Bird, Cordwainer, 395-97 see also Ellison, Harlan Birds, The (film), 192, 198
Bissell, Whit, 45, 48
Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith, The (book), 409
Black comedy, 161-62
Black House, The (book), 376
Blatty, William Peter, 315
Blob, The (film), 219
Bloch, Robert, 30-31, 79, 127, 240, 286n.
Body Snatchers, The (book), 324-44, 361
Bonnie and Clyde (film), 58
"Boomerang" (TV show), 256
"Born of Man and Woman" (short story), 329
Boys from Brazil, The (book), 314
B-pictures, 139, 212
Bradbury, Ray, 11, 30, 124, 127, 257, 329n.-30n., 344-45
Brennan, Joseph Payne, 23, 306
Bride of Frankenstein (film), 60
Brides of Dracula (film), 69
Bronte, Branwell, 40
Brood, The (film), 107, 139
Brooks, Mel, 30
Browning, Ricou, 103
Browning, Tod, 35-36
"Burial, The" (short story), 63
Byron, Lord, 62-63
Cain, James M., 79
Cain's Hundred (TV series), 237
Campbell, John W., 160
Campbell, Ramsey, 195n., 376-78, 384
"Canavan's Back Yard" (short story), 306
Cannibalism, 81, 142, 379-80
Cantalupo, Michael, 195
Car, The (film), 173
Carlson, Richard, 7-8, 102
Carpenter, John, 21, 222-23
Carrie (book), 426-27
Carrie (film), 179-83, 226
Car Sinister (book), 174
Cartoons, 132
Disney movies, 106-7
Castle, William, 192n., 196-97
Castle of Frankenstein, The (magazine), 213-14
Cat People (film), 120-22
Changeling, The (film), 109, 117, 153
Charby, Jay, see Ellison, Harlan
Chayefsky, Paddy, 251
"Cheaters, The" (short story), 240
Chermak, Cy, 249
"Chicken Heart That Ate the World" (radio program), 130
Children, 104-6
cruelty of, 207-8
fears of, 125-27
and horror, 107-8
Children of Cain (film), 219
"Children of the Kingdom" (short story), 265
China Syndrome, The (film), 164, 170
"Chopper" (TV show), 249
Chrysalids, The (book), 41
Clarke, Arthur C., 110n.
Cline, C. Terry, 315
Clockwork Orange, A (film), 162
Clone, The (book), 23n.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film), 17, 159
Cochran, Eddie, 44
Coleridge, S. T., 104
Collins, Wilkie, 50
Colossus (book), 162
Coma (film), 192, 199
Comeback, The (film), 212
Comics, 22-23, 36-37, 369, 419
"Companion, The" (short story), 378
Conqueror Worm, The (film), 206
Cook, Oscar, 256
Coppola, Francis, 226
Corman, Roger, 32, 202, 204
Creature from the Black Lagoon (film), 102, 109, 111
Creeping Unknown, The (film), 171
Crichton, Michael, 225
Crime, 79-80
"Croatoan" (short story), 398
Cronenberg, David, 107, 138n., 139, 222
Currey, L. W., 326
Curse of the Demon (film), 117
Curse of the Werewolf (film), 298
Curtis, Dan, 245-47
Curtis, Jamie Lee, 21
Curtis, Price, see Ellison, Harlan
Dahl, Roald, 261
Damon (book), 315
Dark Carnival (book), 346
Darkness, fear of, 193-99
Dark Shadows (TV series), 245-46
Dark Star (film), 222
Davis, Jack, 23
Dawn of the Dead (film), 81, 139, 216
"Day at the Dentist's, A" (short story), 134-36
Day the Earth Stood Still, The (film), 1
Deadbeat, The (book), 79
Death, 140, 205-6
Deathbed Stories (book), 404
Death Tour (book), 398
De Laurentiis, Dino, 62
Deliverance (film), 192, 199
Dementia-13 (film), 80, 192, 199, 228
"Demon with a Glass Hand" (TV show), 243
Denning, Richard, 102
De Palma, Brian, 179-82, 206, 229, 325
Derleth, August, 30, 266n.
Die, Monster, Die (film), 185
Dimension X (radio series), 124
Dionysian themes, 78-79, 166, 170
Dirty Harry (film), 57
Disbelief, suspension of, 128-29
Discrimination, 38-39
Disney, Walt, 106-7
Dr. Cook's Garden (TV film), 312n.
Dr. Doom, 37
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (book), 50, 72-78, 83
Dr. Octopus, 36-37
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (film), 162
Dog Soldiers (book), 78
Doll Who Ate His Mother, The (book), 378-79
Donovan's Brain (book), 17-19
Dracula (book), 26-27, 50, 63-68, 69, 82
Dracula (film), 70, 14
4
Dracula (TV drama), 261
Dreiser, Theodore, 345
Drop Dead! An Exercise in Horror (radio play), 136
Duel (short story, TV film), 173-74
Earth Abides (book), 424
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (film), 2, 13, 158, 170
Easy Rider (film), 168
Edison, Thomas, 59
Edmundson, Wallace, see Ellison, Harlan
Edwards, Blake, 58
Elkin, Stanley, 401-2
Ellis, Landon, see Ellison, Harlan Ellison, Harlan, 127, 231-33, 236, 243, 394-410
"Emissary from Hamelin" (short story), 407
Evictors, The (film), 223n.
Evil, 65
Exorcist, The (book), 273, 315, 330
Exorcist, The (film), 3, 139, 177-79, 422
"Eye of the Beholder" (TV show), 38, 260
Eye of the Cat (film), 242-43
Fairy tales, 109, 139, 186-87
Family Plot (film), 225
Fantasia (film), 106
Faulkner, William, 291-92
Fear, 5, 105-6, 126-27, 193, 204-5, 297
in children, 125-27
in film, 139
"Fever, The" (TV show), 259
Fiedler, Leslie, 375
Finney, Jack, 5, 258-59, 324-27
Five (film), 131
Fog, The (book), 387-90
Forbes, Bryan, 175
Forbin Project, The (film), 162
"Foul Play" (short story), 24-25
Frank, Pat, 9
Frankenheimer, John, 3, 214
Frankenstein (book), 50, 52-56, 59-60
Frankenstein: The True Story (TV film), 262
Freaks, 33-35, 38
see also Monsters Freaks (film), 35
Free will, 64
Freud, Sigmund, 74
Friedkin, William, 139, 214
Friedman, Lenemaja, 299, 301
"From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet" (short story), 408
Frye, William, 240
Funerals, 140-42
Fury, The (film), 107, 206, 325
Fuzz (book), 417
Gaines, William M., 22
"Galaxy Being, The" (TV show), 243
Gardner, Erle Stanley, 392n.
Gargoyles (TV film), 262
Geeks, 35
Ghastly Ones, The (film), 138
Ghosts, 51, 265, 271
Ghost Story (book), 26, 266, 267-77
Giant Spider Invasion, The (film), 200, 201-2, 218
Gimmicks, 195-97
God, 64
Gog (film), 163
Goldman, William, 175n., 314
"Good Man Is Hard to Find, A" (short story), 21
Gothic fiction, 271-72, 296-97, 300
Grant, Charles L., 306
"Graveyard Shift" (short story), 28n.
Gregg Press, 326
Guest, Val, 171, 172
Haas, George F., 408
Hailey, Arthur, 391
Hair of Harold Roux, The (book), 424
Halloween (film), 21, 192, 197
Hammer Films, 61, 69, 80
Hammett, Dashiell, 392
"Hansel and Gretel" (fairy tale), 109, 183-84, 187
"Harrison Bergeron" (short story), 234
Harryhausen, Ray, 2
Harson, Sley, see Ellison, Harlan
Hart, Ellis, see Ellison, Harlan
Hartwell, David, 326
Hatlen, Burton, 51, 52, xii
Haunted houses, 146, 277-80
"Haunter of the Dark, The" (short story), 119
Haunting, The (film), 25, 119, 192
Haunting of Hill House, The (book), 118, 282, 297, 298
Hawks, Howard, 81, 154
Height of the Scream, The (book), 378
Heinlein, Robert, 341
"He Lives" (TV show), 253
Herbert, James, 4, 212, 376, 383
Herrmann, Bernard, 260
Hitchcock, Alfred, 79, 225, 235-36
"Hitler Painted Roses" (short story), 401-4
Home Box Office, 223 n.
Hooper, Tobe, 138
Horror of Party Beach, The (film), 164-65, 228
Horrors of the Black Museum (film), 140
Hour of the Oxrun Dead, The (book), 306
House Next Door, The (book), 262, 282, 283-96
House on Value Street, The (book), 423
Howard, Robert E., 71, 240, 368
Humor, 130
"Hungry Glass, The" (short story), 240
Hunter, Evan, 417
Hypnotism, 68
I Am Legend (book), 161
I Bury the Living (film), 192
If You Could See Me Now (book), 267
I Married a Monster from Outer Space (film), 221, 223-24
Immortality, 50
Incredible Hulk, The (TV series), 45, 59, 298
Incredible Shrinking Man, The (film), 4, 169
Independent films, 227
Inhabitants of the Lake, The (book), 378
Inner Sanctum (TV series), 116
Insanity, 185-86
"Invaders, The" (TV show), 260
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (film), 5, 139, 140
Invasion of the Saucer-Men (film), 220
Invasion of the Star Creatures (film), 221
Irish, William, see Woolrich, Cornell
"It Came Out of the Woodwork" (TV show), 243
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (film), 45, 46, 48-49
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (film), 45-46
Jackson, Shirley, 33, 118, 282, 296, 297
Jack the Ripper (film), 197n.
Jakes, John, 392-93
James, Henry, 51
Jarvis, E. K., see Ellison, Harlan Jaws (film), 206
Jewel of Seven Stars, The (book), 83
Job, 64
Jones, D. F., 162-63
Jong, Erica, 69
Jorgensen, Ivar, see Ellison, Harlan
Journey to the Unknown (TV series), 262
Jude the Obscure (book), 82
Julia (book), 267, 269-70
Juvenile delinquency, 43-44
Kael, Pauline, 325
Karloff, Boris, 53, 61, 238
Kaufman, Philip, 5n., 6-7
King, Tabitha, 375n.
Kingdom of the Spiders (film), 4
King Kong (film), 61-62
Kipling, Rudyard, 74
Kiss Before Dying, A (book), 313
Klein, T. E. D., 265
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV series), 248, 249-50
Kolchak Tapes, The (book), 245
Kubrick, Stanley, 121, 122, 123, 162
Lady in a Cage (film), 81
Lair of the White Worm, The (book), 83
Landis, John, 363
Last Man on Earth, The (film), 161
Lederer, Charles, 160
Lee, Christopher, 61
Lee, Stan, 36
Left-handedness, 38-40
"Legacy of Terror" (TV show), 249
Leiber, Fritz, 174, 383
Leone, Sergio, 58
Levin, Ira, 174, 175, 311-17
Lewis, M. G., 51
Lighting techniques, 121-23, 198-99 see also Gimmicks Lights Out (radio series), 129
Little Shop of Horrors, The (film), 202
Living End, The (book), 401-2
"Lonely Women Are the Vessels of Time" (short story), 407
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film), 192, 197-98
"Lottery, The" (short story), 33
Love and Death in the American Novel (book), 375
Lovecraft, H. P., 30, 65, 79, 81, 100-102, 119-20, 203-4, 255-56, 378, 408
Lugosi, Bela, 61n., 70, 224
Lurking Fear and Other Stories, The (book), 100
Lustig, William, 200
Macabre (film), 192
MacDonald, John D., 126
Malin, Irving, 296
Maniac (film), 200-201
Marriages (book), 267
"Mars Is Heaven" (short story), 124-25
Martian Chronicles
(book), 11
Martin (film), 81n.
Martin, Quinn, 262
Marvel Comics, 36-37
Matheson, Richard, 30, 161, 173, 247, 254, 260, 329, 360
McBain, Ed, 417
McCauley, Kirby, 222, xii
McTeague (book), 430
Merchant, Paul, see Ellison, Harlan
Mesmer, Franz, 68
MGM, 35, 225
Michael, David J., 398
Midnight Express (film), 192
"Miniature" (TV show), 255
Mitchell, Clyde, see Ellison, Harlan Monk, The (book), 50-51
"Monkey's Paw, The" (short story), 22
Monsters, 32-43, 217-18 see also Freaks "Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, The" (TV show), 253
Motion pictures, see Movies
Movies, 57-58, 110-11, 137-211
cartoons, 132
Disney movies, 106-7
Munsters, The (TV series), 57
Music, 110
Mystery Playhouse Starring Boris Karloff (TV series), 238
Mythology, 52, 78-79
Narcissism, 296, 298
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The (book), 378
National Enquirer (newspaper), 34
National Lampoon (magazine), 34
"New Exhibit, The" (TV show), 255
Newman, Edwin, 385
Nicholson, James H., 31-32
"Nick of Time" (TV show), 259
Night Evelyn Came out of the Grave, The (film), 197n.
Night Gallery (TV series), 252, 255-56
Nightmare (film), 80
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (TV show), 260
Night of the Hunter, The (film), 192, 198
Night of the Lepus (film), 169
Night of the Living Dead (film), 33, 81, 142-43, 166, 170, 192, 198, 227, 228
Night Shift (book), 85, 241
Night Stalker, The (TV series), 245, 246-49
Night Strangler, The (TV series), 248
Nightwalker, The (book), 376
Night Watch (film), 192
1984 (film), 161
Nolan, William F., 116, 117
Norris, Frank, 430
Nosferatu (film), 68
Nosille, Nalrah, see Ellison, Harlan
Nyby, Christian, 154
Oates, Joyce Carol, 377
Oboler, Arch, 129, 131-35
O'Brien, Willis, 62
O'Connor, Flannery, 21
"Of Missing Persons" (short story), 259
Ogle, Charles, 59
Omega Man, The (film), 161
Omen, The (film), 192, 199, 201
Once Upon a Time in the West (film), 58
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (film), 106
Oral sex, 69
Orgasm, 68
Our Lady of Darkness (book), 383
Outer Limits (TV series), 80, 241-44
Pal, George, 161
Paranoia, 322, 326, 330-32
Parasite, The (book), 376
Park, John G., 296-97, 301-2
"Patterns" (short story), 252
"Perchance to Dream" (TV show), 254
Peter Gunn (TV series), 237
Phase IV (film), 149
Phobias, see Fear
Physical deformities, see Freaks; Monsters
Pierce, Jack, 60-61
"Pigeons from Hell" (short story), 240
Pimples, 46-47
Pit and the Pendulum, The (film), 143
Plan 9 from Outer Space (film), 224
Playden, Paul, 249
Pleasance, Donald, 21
Poe, E. A., 65, 378
Polanski, Roman, 311-12
Polidori, John, 62-63
Political subtexts, 154-61
Powers, Richard Gid, 342-44
"Prey" (short story), 247
"Printer's Devil" (TV show), 253n., 255
Prophecy (film), 3, 163, 214
Psycho (film), 79-80, 143, 192, 199, 235-36, 242
Puppet Masters, The (book), 341
Rabid (film), 222
Radio, 113-36
