Synopses & Reviews
Focusing primarily on cinema, but encompassing literature, television, radio, popular music, history and folklore The Companion provides a secret history of the horror genre from its pre-cinema beginnings in the 18th century gothic novel and the Victorian ghost story through a hundred years of film, spotlighting the great artists like Boris Karloff and Edgar Allan Poe as well as humble toilers like Edward D Wood and John Carradine.
In addition to entries on actors, directors, writers and technicians and entries on horror-themed films and television series, the book provides insightful essays on classic horror characters like Frankenstein and Dracula, on recurrent situations like Decapitation and Body-Snatching, even on often-horrific portions of the body like Eyes and Brains.