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Author Donald Willis continues his insights into horror film history with his new tome on the 1940s. Yes, we had vampires and

the Frankenstein Monster, mummies, a new villain-the Wolf Man, dark moody Val Lewton films and a slew of comic monster rallies.

If the 1930s was Universal and monsters, the 1940s was RKO and mood-states of mind. The Palladists in The Seventh Victim, Kyra (Helene Thimig), in

Isle of the Dead and (outside RKO) Count Fosco (Sydney Greenstreet) in The

Woman in White-all wor...

Chronology of Classic Horror Films: The 1940s