Dr. Acula's Reel Monsters
Dr. Acula's Reel Monsters

Author: Forrest Ackerman

Publisher:

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 9781497598584

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MEET THE REAL "REEL MONSTERS"The crawling hand of The Beast with Five Fingers...The human fiend of The Body Snatcher...The blood-thirsty vampire of Black Sabbath...The alien menace of The Saucer Men...The murderous "normal" of Freaks...The walking horror of The Monkey's Paw...The living dead cadavers of Re-Animator...The demonic child of The Twilight Zone...Step with Dr. Acula through the mirror into the literary land of dark developments. Your destination is Horror House, right next door to Mystery Mansion, located at the busy intersection of Scream Street and Beastman Blvd. Your guides are Robert Louis Stevenson, H. P. Lovecraft, Tod Robbins, W. W. Jacobs, Paul Fairman, W. F. Harvey, Alexis Tolstoy, and Jerome Bixby. The bookshelves inside are filled with their most terrifying tales. They are the primal source of all the monster stories ever filmed. The bookends are shrunken heads.Take this book off the shelf. Open up Dr. Acula's Reel Monsters and curl up where the light is brightest. Don't mind the ghosts, they're just here to read over your shoulder. They're mostly harmless - we think!A Famous Monsters of Filmland Book

Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms
Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms

Author: John Edgar Browning

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2009-04-08

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0810869233

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Since the publication of Dracula in 1897, Bram Stoker's original creation has been a source of inspiration for artists, writers, and filmmakers. From Universal's early black-and-white films and Hammer's Technicolor representations that followed, iterations of Dracula have been cemented in mainstream cinema. This anthology investigates and explores the far larger body of work coming from sources beyond mainstream cinema reinventing Dracula. Draculas, Vampires and Other Undead Forms assembles provocative essays that examine Dracula films and their movement across borders of nationality, sexuality, ethnicity, gender, and genre since the 1920s. The essays analyze the complexity Dracula embodies outside the conventional landscape of films with which the vampire is typically associated. Focusing on Dracula and Dracula-type characters in film, anime, and literature from predominantly non-Anglo markets, this anthology offers unique perspectives that seek to ground depictions and experiences of Dracula within a larger political, historical, and cultural framework.

The Real Monsters
The Real Monsters

Author: Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9781402737763

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Investigates the appearance of vampires, mummies, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, witches, and other monsters many claim are real.

Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse
Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse

Author: Brad Steiger

Publisher: Visible Ink Press

Published: 2010-05-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1578593433

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30 bloodcurdling and bone-chillingly real-life zombie encounters. Not recommended for reading when a virus hits! Paranormal researcher extraordinaire and author of hundreds of books on the mysterious and unknown, Brad Steiger provides an alarming chronicle of zombie history, and stories of first-person encounters. Along with the bloodcurdling stories, Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse explores spells and hexes; ceremonies and initiations; ghouls and wendigos; sacred zombie and voodoo-related sites; zombies and monsters of the Bible; and zombie traditions in China, Japan, the Pacific, India, Persia, and Native America. Some of the topics and stories chewed over in this fascinating book include... Zombies versus Vampires Damballah Wedo and the African Pantheon Black Cat Mama Couteaux and the Great Zombie War The Devil Baby of Bourbon Street Recipes for Hungry Ghosts Eating Human Flesh as a Religious Experience Hitler’s Quest to Zombify the World The CIA Experiments to Create a Zombie Nation Golems and Tulpas—Psychic Zombies Zombies and Voodoo Magic around the World And many, many more hair-raising stories! Highlighting news articles, historical accounts, and first-person interviews, Real Zombies, the Living Dead, and Creatures of the Apocalypse will leave you worried about whether man can survive the next plague.

Monsters, Law, Crime
Monsters, Law, Crime

Author: Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-11-18

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1683930800

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Monsters, Law, Crime, an edited collection composed of essays written by prominent U.S. and international experts in Law, Criminology, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication and Film, constitutes a rigorous attempt to explore fertile interdisciplinary inquiries into “monsters” and “monster-talk,” and law and crime. This edited collection explores and updates contemporary discussions of the emergent and evolving frontiers of monster theory in relation to cutting-edge research on law and crime as extensions of a Gothic Criminology. This theoretical framework was initially developed by Caroline Joan “Kay” S. Picart, a Philosophy and Film professor turned Attorney and Law professor, and Cecil Greek, a Sociologist (Picart and Greek 2008). Picart and Greek proposed a Gothic Criminology to analyze the fertile synapses connecting the “real” and the “reel” in the flow of Gothic metaphors and narratives that abound around criminological phenomena that populate not only popular culture but also academic and public policy discourses. Picart's edited collection adapts the framework to focus predominantly on law and the social sciences.

Draculas
Draculas

Author: Blake Crouch

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2010-11-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781456331184

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"Four well-known horror authors [Blake Crouch, Jack Kilborn, Jeff Strand, and F. Paul Wilson] pool their penchants for scares and thrills, and tackle one of the greatest of all legends, with each writer creating a unique character and following them through a vampire outbreak in a secluded hospital. The goal was simple: write the most intense novel they possibly could. Which they did"--Page 4 of cover.

What Do Draculas Do?
What Do Draculas Do?

Author: David Rees

Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13:

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One of Britain's best-known critics of fiction for children and young adults discusses the work of Maurice Sendak, Madeleine L'Engle, Mary Norton, Ronald Dahl, Ivan Southall, Patricia Wrightson, Margaret Mahy, and many others.

Ed Wood, Mad Genius
Ed Wood, Mad Genius

Author: Rob Craig

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2009-09-12

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0786454237

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Filmmaker Ed Wood was controversial and critically maligned, even labeled "the worst director of all time," yet he achieved cult status and remains of great interest today. This book frames Wood's work, such as the cross-dressing themed Glen or Glenda? and the haphazard Bride of the Monster, as reflections of the culture of their era. Wood invariably worked with infinitesimal budgets, shooting at breakneck speed, incorporating plot twists that defied all logic. Yet there was a tangible if unfocused thematic thrust to Wood's films, which meditate fitfully on gender, religion and society, revealing a "holy trinity" of fixations--sex, death and resurrection. Wood's infamous Plan 9 From Outer Space encapsulates the fixations and flaws that were his hallmarks, and with 22 other films, is explored here. A filmography and 47 photographs are included.

Forry
Forry

Author: Deborah Painter

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0786457988

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Forrest J Ackerman (1916-2008) was an author, archivist, agent, actor, promoter, and editor of the iconic fan magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland; a founder of science fiction fandom; and one of the world's foremost collectors of sci-fi, horror and fantasy films, literature, and memorabilia. This biography begins with a foreword by Joe Moe, Ackerman's caregiver and close friend since 1982. It documents Ackerman's lifelong dedication to his work in both literature and film; his interests, travels, relationships and associations with famous personalities; and his lasting impact on popular culture. Primary research material includes letters given by Ackerman to the author during their long friendship, and numerous reminiscences from Ackerman's friends, fans and colleagues.

Letters from Hollywood
Letters from Hollywood

Author: Bill Krohn

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2020-08-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1438477651

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Journalist and filmmaker Bill Krohn has been the Los Angeles correspondent for the French magazine Cahiers du cinéma for over forty years. Letters from Hollywood brings together thirty-four of his essays, many of them appearing in English for the first time. Focusing most pieces on a particular director and film, Krohn uses his inside knowledge of the studio system to illuminate an art that is also a multibillion-dollar business. He connects currents in French film criticism and theory with an unfolding account of American cinema past and present, offering penetrating insights into directors and their work. Beginning with Allan Dwan, who learned how to make movies before Hollywood was born by watching D. W. Griffith, Krohn presents a panorama that encompasses Alfred Hitchcock and Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and Sergio Leone, Star Wars and I Love Lucy. He covers everything from gangsters to gremlins, from blockbusters to no-budget cult films like Moon Over Harlem and Plan 9 from Outer Space, in a style that is accessible to anyone who loves movies, or has a passion for writing about them.