Review:
"Fascinating [and] entertaining . . . to understand a culture, you must know what it fears."--Stefan Dziemianowicz, "The Washington Post"
"Fascinating Ưand¨ entertaining . . . to understand a culture, you must know what it fears."--Stefan Dziemianowicz, "The Washington Post"
Fascinating [and] entertaining . . . to understand a culture, you must know what it fears. Stefan Dziemianowicz, The Washington Post"
"Fascinating [and] entertaining . . . to understand a culture, you must know what it fears." --Stefan Dziemianowicz, The Washington Post
About the Author:
David J. Skal is the author several critically acclaimed books on fantastic literature and genre cinema, including Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen; Screams of Reason; Mad Science and Modern Culture; V Is for Vampire: The A to Z Guide to Everything Undead; and, with Elias Savada, Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning. With Nina Auerbach, he is co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications, ranging from The New York Times to Cinefantastique, and for television, on the A&E series Biography. He has written, produced, and directed a dozen original DVD documentaries, including features on the Universal Studios' classic monster movies, and a behind-the-scenes chronicle of the Academy Award-winning film Gods and Monsters. He currently lives and writes in Los Angeles.
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