A History of Horror, 2nd Edition

Ever since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon's fully revised and updated A History of Horror is still the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of this ever—popular film genre.

Arranged by decades, with outliers and franchise films overlapping some years, this one—stop sourcebook unearths the historical origins of characters such as Dracula, Frankenstein, and...