Horror movies: an illustrated survey |
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User Review - snakeybaxter - LibraryThingThis book along with Ivan Butler's "Horror in the Cinema", were two of the first books to argue the case of the horror film as art. A history of the fantastic film from George Melies and German ... Read full review
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
A Silent Conspiracy of Terror | 53 |
Children of the Night | 77 |
Copyright | |
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