num_pages: 455
description: The definitive biography of James Whale, the stylish and innovative British director of Frankenstein who virtually invented the genre of the classic horror film but who only a few years later was no longer making films, living instead on the fringes of the closeted homosexual culture of 1950s Los Angeles, virtually forgotten by Hollywood.
language: English
title: James Whale : A New World of Gods and Monsters
titlecomplete: James Whale : A New World of Gods and Monsters
genres: Biography, Queer, Nonfiction, Horror, Film, History
ratings_count: 86
publisher: Faber & Faber