![]() ![]() ![]() , and more were the marketable heroes of the day. ![]() This was the Golden Age of the horror films, where production shooting lasted a few months and were double -billed at the theaters, where stars like Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr. The book covers the great history of the Universal Film’s horror history, where the run times were a little over an hour, no CG on the monsters (just great costumes and elaborate makeup), and all the little problems that occurred during the filming of the shoots. This 616 page text looks like a college textbook that one would read in film class at a college university, but the writing and stories in the book is more than filled with basic facts about the cast and directors, and engages the reader to where they can’t put the book down. Just like seeing Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster on screen for the first time, Tom Weaver, Michael Brunas, and John Brunas’s “Universal Horrors: The Studio’s Classic Films, 1931-1946 Second Edition” (McFarland, 2007) is a breath-taking moment just looking at the cover before the reader even opens to the first page. ![]() Cover image: Gloria Stuart and Boris Karloff in “The Old Dark House,” 1932 ![]()
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