Horror Films - Alan Frank [1977] History of Horror

What have Christopher Lee and Charles Ogle in common? When did Dracula get his fangs? Why did Karl Freund keep Boris Karloff under wraps? Why wasn't The Incredible Shrinking Man Sanforised? Was The Attack of the 50-foot Woman just another tall story? These are only some of the vital questions answered in this fascinating Good Ghouls' Guide to over eighty years of horror films.

Alan Frank has carefully crept into the crypt, checked, and crept out again to bring you a veritable variety of vampires, a medley of monsters and a hair-raising horde of horrors from the time Melies went to the moon to the day Jaws swallowed Robert Shaw. See The Man Who Turned To Stone! Go with John Agar under the Himalayas and find The Mole People - if you dig them, just think how they'll dig you! Watch too, as Lon Chaney Junior dons his yak hairs and becomes The Wolf Man, Ricou Browning becomes The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Jekyll becomes Hyde. See Peter Lorre become The Raven and get the bird and King Kong become the ultimate urban gorilla! They're all here in a book that treats the subject the way the cinema does - as entertainment.

Horror Films has a foreword by Hammer Horror film director Terence Fisher and is impressively illustrated throughout in colour and black-and-white.

ISBN 0 600 37068 2

Hardback, 32.6cm x 24cm x 2.5cm

First Edition, 1977

Condition: As pictured - some tears to dust jacket. Otherwise excellent.