The very witching time of night
Subtitle: dark alleys of classic horror cinema
By: Gregory William Mank
Publisher: McFarland & Company; McFarland
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780786449552
Subjects: Motion pictures; Production and direction; Horror films; History
Other titles: Dark alleys of classic horror cinema
Description: "The book covers unusual and often surprising areas of horror film history from the harrowingly tragic life of Dracula's leading lady, Helen Chandler, as intimately remembered by her sister-in-law, to a tribute to Carl Laemmle, Jr., producer of the original Universal horror classics, including an interview with his lady friend of almost 40 years"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "A very lonely soul": a tribute to Dracula's Helen Chandler; title: Mad Jack unleashed: Svengali and the mad genius; title: Paramount horrors: Murders in the zoo; title: The mystery of Lionel Atwill: an interview with the son of the late, great horror star; title: James Whale, Colin Clive, Lionel Atwill and the riding whip: the real-life horror story of the censorship of Universal's One more river; title: "Baby-scarer!" Boris karloff at Warner Bros., 1935-1939; title: Libel and old lace; title: Production diaries: Cat people and The curse of the cat people; title: Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man revisited; title: Horror propaganda: Hitler's madman; title: John Carradine and his "traveling circus"; title: Shock! theatre, the "half-witch and "half-fairy" and Dr. Lucifer; title: Junior Laemmle, horror's "crown prince" producer.