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Contents Preface Part One: The Gothic Chapter 1: Silent Prototypes The Monster Born and Bred The German Influence Lon Chaney and Tod Browning Chapter 2: The Horror Film Tod Browning's Dracula James Whale's Frankenstein A Cycle Spawned Chapter 3: Pre-Code Horrors Madness Reigns Karl Freund's The Mummy Jungle Horrors Edgar Ulmer's The Black Cat Chapter 4: Gothic Moderne Variations on a Gothic Theme WereWolf of London Bride of Frankenstein Dracula's Daughter Son of Frankenstein Chapter 5: Universal, the Horror Factory House of Horrors Scares Elsewhere Part Two: The Psychic Chapter 6: Big-Budget Chills Glossy Hauntings John Brahm and Laird Cregar The Terror of Evil Chapter 7: Val Lewton and the Psychology of Fear Poetry and Danger Horror Meets Terror Part Three: The Atomic Chapter 8: Poisoned Air Kiss Me Deadly Lab Work Chapter 9: Poisoned Waters Modern Inconveniences Cheap Thrills Part Four: The Cosmic Chapter 10: The Science Fiction Film Unearthly Subversion The Good Neighbor Policy Green Meanies Chapter 11: Drive-in Terror The Last of the Epics Those Monsters Next Door Don't Step on It! Chapter 12: Last Hurrahs Alfred Hitchcock William Castle Joan Crawford Roger Corman 2001, a Space Odyssey Rated "Ick!" Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes to the Text Bibliography Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Horror films United States History and criticism