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Gregory William Mank
Porter Down, prodigal private investigator, takes a perilously deep dive into the most notorious unsolved Hollywood mystery of all time!
Award-winning author Gregory William Mank takes the reader on a…
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Explores unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history, from the harrowingly tragic life of Dracula ‘s leading lady, Helen Chandler, to John Barrymore’s 1931 horror vehicles Svengali and…
This book provides details about the lives and careers of 21 cinematic leading ladies, femmes fatales, monsters, and misfits, putting into perspective their contributions to the films and folklore of…
A study of the 1939 film, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
Like a lovingly guided midnight tour, this book covers the seductive shadows of the most fascinating horror films and melodramas from the 1930s and 1940s. Included are profiles of the…
Examining 13 of Hollywood’s horror classics in detail, this volume covers original interviews and research, the styles of the various studios, along with the performers, directors and backstage events.
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Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff starred in dozens of black-and-white horror films, and managed to collaborate on and co-star in eight movies. Through interviews and archival research, this expanded new…
In 1944, Laird Cregar played Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, giving one of the most haunting performances in Hollywood history. This first biography of Cregar tells the heartbreaking story…
A macabre, time-traveling thriller, taking the reader back and forth to both Golden Age Hollywood of the early 1930s and the revolutionary drug world of the late 1960s.
Scott Allen Nollen
In 1994, historian Scott Allen Nollen published the critically acclaimed Robert Louis Stevenson: Life, Literature and the Silver Screen, the only volume dedicated to screen adaptations of the prolific Scottish…
Tom Weaver,Jack Gourlay
Supreme movie villain John Carradine defined the job of the character actor, running the gamut from preacher Casey of The Grapes of Wrath to his classic Count Dracula of House…
