Bram Stoker Horror Movies - Page 9 of 10

A fresh prose tide from Australasia is hitting us--Richard Flanagan from Tasmania, Witi Ihimaera from New Zealand, and Terry Dowling from Australia are just a few. One of the biggest waves in terms of imagination, craft and sheer wonder, Terry Dowling has a five-star volume that spans twenty years of his sure-handed storytelling, BASIC BLACK:TALES OF APPROPRIATE FEAR. In it, inner worlds are transformed by transgression, sudden disclosure, and the fantastic. The addictive tales include: The Daemon…

In this brilliantly written book, Lawrence Barker combines the modern thriller with gothic horror to reveal why Dracula used Renfield as his assistant and what made Renfield insane. Finally the truth behind the straight jacket, beetles, flies, and moments of horrible lucidity is unveiled. Renfield tells how only one man stands against a threat from the mysterious East, a threat ten times as terrifying as Dracula: R.M. Renfield. After reading "Renfield", you will never look at Stoker's…

Deemed “a prodigy among biographers” by The New York Times Book Review, Michael Holroyd transformed biography into an art. Now he turns his keen observation, humane insight, and epic scope on an ensemble cast, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater.Ellen Terry was an ethereal beauty, the child bride of a Pre-Raphaelite painter who made her the face of the age. George Bernard Shaw was so besotted by her gifts that he could not bear to meet her, lest the spell…

HORROR HIGH 1974 PG 85 minutes Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)A shock-filled tale of a serious and shy, but brilliant science student, who, when wrongfully forced to consume a new drug he'd created, becomes a modern day Jeckyl and Hyde, allowing his pent-up rage to explode in a thoroughly terrifying way.LURKERS 1988 R 90 minutesA psychological thriller about a beautiful, young New York cellist, whose demonic childhood nightmares have returned, plunging her into a horrific series of events that…

MADACY's FRIGHT FEST: NIGHTMARE IN A BOX features ten public domain horror movies on five double-sided DVDs. All are stored in a sturdy folding case that's packed within a nicely decorative tin box. Transfer quality, while not pristine, is acceptable and the films themselves are consistently good; there's even a few genuine classics here. SYNOPSES-- THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI-- Hunchbacked Dr. Caligari's sleepwalker predicts deaths hours before they occur. German Expressionist cinema at its finest.…

Abby Doesn t Need a Man...The Devil Is Her Lover Now!William Girdler s blaxploitation answer to The Exorcist (1973) is a down and dirty, dollar store knock-off of the Hollywood blockbuster that has since gained a loyal cult following of it s own. Pulled from theaters only weeks after it s premiere, sued into obscurity and essentially a lost movie for three decades, Abby is finally ready to repossess the souls of fans everywhere! SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: trailer, radio spot, poster images, lobby…

The History of Gothic Fiction debates the rise of the genre from its origins in the late eighteenth-century novel through nineteenth-century fictions of tyrants, monsters, conspirators, and vampires to the twentieth-century zombie film. Approaching key novels by Walpole (The Castle of Otranto), Austen (Northanger Abbey), Wollstonecraft (The Wrongs of Woman), Shelley (Frankenstein), Stoker (Dracula), and Halperin (White Zombie), the argument proceeds on historicist principles, analyzing the peculiar…

As a distinct genre, horror can be dated back to the gothic literature of the seventeenth century. Since the invention of the motion picture film, there have been many attempts to translate the genre from its literary sources to the silver screen. In this 4-disc collection are four classic horror films that have influenced countless filmmakers and held the attention of obsessive film experts. Three of the four films were made in Germany, while the fourth is American. All are essentials. The Cabinet…

Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some of the earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori's The Vampyre and James Malcolm Rymer's Varney the Vampyre, a tale which held readers in thrall when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century. As well as these rare stories and those featuring…

Halloween, 1963.They call him the October Boy, or Ol’ Hacksaw Face, or Sawtooth Jack. Whatever the name, everybody in this small Midwestern town knows who he is. How he rises from the cornfields every Halloween, a butcher knife in his hand, and makes his way toward town, where gangs of teenage boys eagerly await their chance to confront the legendary nightmare. Both the hunter and the hunted, the October Boy is the prize in an annual rite of life and death. Pete McCormick knows that killing…

Never speak them.Never whisper them.The Words.The Words is a novella of otherworldly terror and madness from Douglas Clegg, the award-winning author of The Priest of Blood, Isis, Purity, The Hour Before Dark and many others.The two teenagers invoke the words -- the names of those who walk beyond the veil, in the dark of the Nowhere...When Mark befriends outsider Dash, he believes his new friend to be an outcast rebel. But a dark mystery unfolds as Dash leads Mark into dangerous games and rituals…

Passport Video presents "The Bela Lugosi Box - 15 Frightful Films" (1942) --- (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Béla Lugosi was the stage name of actor Béla Ferenc Dezs Blaskó (October 20, 1882 - August 16, 1956) --- Lugosi was born in Lugos, Hungary, at the time part of Austria-Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania), the youngest of four children of a baker --- best known for his portrayal of "Dracula" in the American Broadway stage production, and subsequent film,…

Thousands of pages of classic horror are collected in this large Kindle collection. An active table of contents is included to make it easy to navigate to the work you are looking for.Authors and works include:Bram Stoker The Burial of the Rats The Chain of Destiny Crooken Sands The Crystal Cup Dracula Dracula's Guest The Dualitists, or, the Death Doom of the Double Born In the Valley of the Shadow The Invisible Giant The Jewel of Seven Stars The Judges House The Lady of the Shroud The Lair of the…

Passport Video presents "The Bela Lugosi Box - 15 Frightful Films" (1942) --- (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Béla Lugosi was the stage name of actor Béla Ferenc Dezs Blaskó (October 20, 1882 - August 16, 1956) --- Lugosi was born in Lugos, Hungary, at the time part of Austria-Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania), the youngest of four children of a baker --- best known for his portrayal of "Dracula" in the American Broadway stage production, and subsequent film,…

Passport Video presents "The Bela Lugosi Box - 15 Frightful Films" (1942) --- (Dolby digitally remastered) --- Béla Lugosi was the stage name of actor Béla Ferenc Dezs Blaskó (October 20, 1882 - August 16, 1956) --- Lugosi was born in Lugos, Hungary, at the time part of Austria-Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania), the youngest of four children of a baker --- best known for his portrayal of "Dracula" in the American Broadway stage production, and subsequent film,…