David J. Skal, Author . Bloomsbury $27.50 (224p) ISBN 978-1-58234-230-6
All Hallows Eve, to use one of its many aliases, is a night when usual distinctions between fun and fear, children and adults, the living and the dead are magically blurred, argues Skal, author of V Is for Vampire
and co-editor of the Norton...
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David J. Skal, Author W. W. Norton & Company $29.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-393-04582-6
Art imitates life, which imitates art in this witty and knowing exploration of ""mad science"" and modern culture. The demonic scientist of pulp novels, B movies, and comic books is extraordinarily popular, says Skal (Hollywood Gothic; The Monster...
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David J. Skal, Author W. W. Norton & Company $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-30805-1
Horror novelist Skal presents various 19th- and 20th-century interpretations of everyone's favorite black-cloaked bloodsucker. Featured here are Bram Stoker's Victorian thriller, Max Shreck in the German expressionist film Nosferatu and Bela Lugosi...
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David J. Skal, Author First Glance Books $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-393-03419-6
This entertaining survey mixes behind-the-scenes Hollywood anecdotes with intriguing social analysis. Skal ( Hollywood Gothic ) considers the archetypes depicted in Dracula , Frankenstein , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Tod Browning's Freaks as...
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David J. Skal. Liveright, $35 (672p) ISBN 978-1-63149-010-1
Known today almost exclusively as the author of Dracula, Bram Stoker (1847–1912) is thoroughly scrutinized in this sumptuous biography. Drawing on a wealth of research, Skal (Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen)
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