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DRACULA'S DAUGHTER
(Universal: 1936)
From a story, Dracula's Guest, by Bram Stoker.
Director: Lambert Hillyer.
Starring: Gloria Holden and Otto Kruger.
ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY (RKO Radio: 1941)
From a story, The Devil and Daniel Webster, by Stephen Vincent Benet.
Director: William Dieterle. Starring: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston and Simone Simon.
THE BODY SNATCHER (RKO Radio: 1945)
From a story of the same name by Robert Louis Stevenson. Director: Val Lewton. Starring: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Henry Daniell.
THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS
(Warner Brothers: 1947*)
From a story of the same name by William Fryer Harvey.
Director: Robert Florey.
Starring: Robert Alda, Peter Lorre, J. Carroll Naish and Barbara
Brown.
BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (Warner Brothers: 1953) From a story, The Foghorn, by Ray Bradbury. Director: Eugene Lourie. Starring: Paul Christian and Paula Raymond.
THE FLY
(2.0th Century-Fox: 1958)
From a story by George Langelaan.
Director: Kurt Neumann.
Starring: Vincent Price, Al Hedison, Patricia Owens and Herbert
Marshall. Two "sequels".
BLACK SUNDAY
(Galatea-jolly Films: i960)
From a story, The Viy, by Nikolai Gogol.
Director: Mario Bava.
Starring: Barbara Steele, John Richardson and Ivo Garrani.
(Also known as Revenge of the Vampire.')
INCIDENT AT OWL CREEK (Robert Enrico: 1961)
From a story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce. Director: Robert Enrico.
MONSTER OF TERROR
(American-International: 1965)
From a story, The Colour Out Of Space, by H. P. Lovecraft.
Director: Daniel Haller.
Starring: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams and Freda Jackson. (Also known
as Die, Monster, Die.)
THE SKULL
(Paramount: 1966)
From a story, The Skull of the Marquis de Sade, by Robert Bloch.
Director: Freddie Francis.
Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Patrick Wymark.
THE OBLONG BOX
(American-International: 1970}
From a story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe.
Director: Gordon Hesler.
Starring: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Hilary Dwyer.
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ing of the motion picture. Did you know, for example, that the first horror film was produced in 1896; that Lon Chaney, in his magnificent performance as the Phantom, used wires to distend his eyes and expose his gums (the picture was almost not released because of the horrific appearance of its star); that Tod Browning's Freaks drove audiences to run screaming from the theater when it was first shown?
Peter Haining and his ghoulish friends, Vincent Price and Christopher Lee, have conjured up an intelligent and thoroughly enjoyable survey (complete with stills from the motion pictures) of horror films you've seen, some you haven't seen, and some you'll be seeing during the current renaissance of the genre, including:
The Devil in A Convent The Beast with Five The Lunatics Fingers
Puritan Passions Beast from 20,000 Phantom of the Opera Fathoms
The Magician The F1 y
Freaks Black Sunda y
Most Dangerous Game
Incident at Owl Creek
Dracula's Daughter Die > Monster, Die
All That Money Can The Sku11
B U y The Oblong Box
The Body Snatcher
Jacket design by Mark Abraham/Tim Gaydos Studio
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