Hollywood Halloween Horrors: The Haunted Holiday in Film and Television

From Mary Shelley's Villa Diodati ghost-story summer in 1816 to the A24 horror renaissance and the streaming-era Halloween economy—this is the story of how Halloween became America's most-filmed holiday. Hollywood Halloween Horrors traces two centuries of the haunted-holiday spectacle on screen: silent-era origins, the Universal Monsters cycle that codified Halloween's visual vocabulary, the Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff era, the television Halloween tradition from 1952's Ozzie & Harriet to...