English Gothic: A Century of Horror CinemaTraces the rise and fall of the horror genre from its nineteenth century beginnings to the present day, encompassing the lost films of the silent era, the Karloff and Lugosi chillers of the 1930's, the lurid classics from Hammer's house of horror and the explicit shockers of the 1970's. |
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Authors Note and Acknowledgments | 6 |
Part One British Horror in Embryo | 12 |
Part Three Treading Water 19601964 | 96 |
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