starring
Bela
Lugosi,
Helen
Chandler,
Edward
Van
Sloan;
After
a
harrowing
ride
through
the
Carpathian
mountains
in
eastern
Europe,
Renfield
enters
castle
Dracula
to
finalize
the
transferral
of
Carfax
Abbey in
London
to Count
Dracula,
who is
in
actuality
a
vampire.
Renfield
is
drugged
by the
eerily
hypnotic
count,
and
turned
into one
of his
thralls,
protecting
him
during
his sea
voyage
to
London.
After
sucking
the
blood
and
turning
the
young
Lucy
Weston
into a
vampire,
Dracula
turns
his
attention
to her
friend
Mina
Seward,
daughter
of Dr.
Seward
who then
calls in
a
specialist,
Dr. Van
Helsing,
to
diagnose
the
sudden
deterioration
of
Mina's
health.
Van
Helsing,
realizing
that
Dracula
is
indeed a
vampire,
tries to
prepare
Mina's
fiancée,
John
Harker,
and Dr.
Seward
for what
is to
come and
the
measures
that
will
have to
be taken
to
prevent
Mina
from
becoming
one of
the
undead.
$20.00
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Only
Dracula
-- Bram
Stoker
-- StagePlay
Edition
1927
Broadway
Play --
Stage
Manager:
Carl
Reed
starring
Bela
Lugosi,
Dorothy
Peterson,
Edward
Van
Sloan
After
a
harrowing
ride
through
the
Carpathian
mountains
in
eastern
Europe,
Renfield
enters
castle
Dracula
to
finalize
the
transferral
of
Carfax
Abbey in
London
to Count
Dracula,
who is
in
actuality
a
vampire.
Renfield
is
drugged
by the
eerily
hypnotic
count,
and
turned
into one
of his
thralls,
protecting
him
during
his sea
voyage
to
London.
After
sucking
the
blood
and
turning
the
young
Lucy
Weston
into a
vampire,
Dracula
turns
his
attention
to her
friend
Mina
Seward,
daughter
of Dr.
Seward
who then
calls in
a
specialist,
Dr. Van
Helsing,
to
diagnose
the
sudden
deterioration
of
Mina's
health.
Van
Helsing,
realizing
that
Dracula
is
indeed a
vampire,
tries to
prepare
Mina's
fiancée,
John
Harker,
and Dr.
Seward
for what
is to
come and
the
measures
that
will
have to
be taken
to
prevent
Mina
from
becoming
one of
the
undead.
$20.00
Dustjacket
Only
Dr.
Jekyll
and Mr.
Hyde -- Robert
Louis
Stevenson
1932
Paramount
Film --
Dir:
Rouben
Mamoulian
starring
Fredric
March,
Miriam
Hopkins;
Rose
Hobart
Here
is
Stevenson's
immortal
tale of
dual
personality
-- the
story
that
makes
all
other
ventures
into the
nerve
tingling
unknown
seem
child's
play
beside
it.
Dr.
Jekyll
-- loved
by
everyone,
sought
by
society.
Mr. Hyde
-- fiend
and
criminal,
unbearable
in his
hideousness.
They are
one and
the same
man!
How was
it
possible?
What was
the
reason
behind
this
strange
and
appalling
transformation
of an
upstanding
physician
into a
brutal
monster
spreading
horror
and fear
in his
wake?
$20.00
Dustjacket
Only
Frankenstein
-- Mary
Shelley
1931
Universal
Film --
Dir:
James
Whale
starring
Boris
Karloff,
Colin
Clive,
Edward
Van
Sloan
The
classic
horror
film
starring
Karloff
as The
Monster.
Directed
by James
Whale.
Dr.
Frankenstein
creates
a simple
creature
from
various
body
parts.
The
creature
turns
into a
monster
when Dr.
Frankenstein
rejects
him.
Sticking
close to
the
original
novel,
we are
guided
through
the
store of
Frankensteins
quest
for
knowledge,
and his
creates
search
for his
'father'.
$25.00
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Only
He
Who Gets
Slapped
-- George
Carlin
1924
MGM Film
--
Dir.
Victor
Sjostrom
starring
Lon
Chaney,
Norma
Shearer,
John
Gilbert
This
is a
story of
the
circus
and its
people.
Into the
sawdust
ring one
day
while
the
company
was at
rehearsal
came a
stranger
who
looked
as
though
he had
just
gone
through
some
terrible
experience.
He asked
for a
job, and
when
they
sought
to find
out his
name, he
told
them to
call him
HE. And
so he
became
HE WHO
GETS
SLAPPED,
the
greatest
clown of
his day,
the
clown
with a
breaking
heart.
How he
saved
lovely
little
Consuelo
the
little
bareback
rider
from the
same
spider's
web
which
had
ruined
his own
life,
how he
avenged
a great
wrong
and
consummated
a great
love is
all told
in this
beautiful
story,
the
novelization
of
Andreyev's
famous
play and
the
Victor
Seastrom
picture.
$20.00
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Only
Man
Who
Laughs,
The -- Victor
Hugo
1928
Universal
Film --
Dir:
Paul
Leni
starring
Conrad
Veidt,
Mary
Philbin;
Olga
Baclanova
One
stormy
night a
small
boy, his
face
horribly
mutilated,
staggered
through
the
driving
snow
into the
circus
wagon of
old
Ursus,
holding
in his
arms a
baby
girl he
had
taken
from the
arms of
her dead
mother.
It is
years
later.
The girl
is Dea
--
blinded
by the
snow of
that
memorable
night,
but
divinely
beautiful.
The boy
Gwynplaine
has
become a
famous
clown,
and with
his
disfigured
face
frozen
into a
horrible
grin, is
known as
"The
Man Who
Laughs."
One day
the
court
jester
of Queen
Anne
finds
from the
comprachio
who
mutilated
Gwynplaine,
that the
young
man is
the son
of the
late
James
II's
political
enemy,
and the
heir to
an
estate
held by
the
Duchess
Josiana.
The
queen,
seeing
an
opportunity
of
humiliating
her
half-sister,
who is
engaged
to her
court
favorite,
decrees
she
shall
marry
Gwynplaine.
The
duchess,
meanwhile,
has
conceived
an
unnatural
fascination
for the
youth
and has
other
designs
upon
him. But
Gwynplaine
defies
them,
renounces
his
title,
and
flies
back to
Dea to
pour out
his love
and read
the
answering
light in
her
dying
eyes.
$20.00
Dustjacket
Only
Hunchback
of Notre
Dame -- Victor
Hugo
1923
Universal
Film --
Dir:
Wallace
Worsley
starring
Lon
Chaney,
Patsy
Ruth
Miller,
Norman
Kerry
[This
is the 1st of 3 printings of this
dustjacket, only 5 titles listed on rear panel]
In
the
crowded
streets
of
medieval
Paris, a
woman
unfairly
accused
of
murder
pleads
for
mercy.
For most
of his
life, he
has been
forced
to live
in
lonely
isolation
in the
bell
tower of
the
famous
cathedral
--
hidden
away
like a
beast,
banished
from
sight,
shunned
and
despised
by all.
For
though
he was
gentle
and
kind, it
was
Quasimodo's
crime to
have
been
born
hideously
deformed.
But one
day his
heart
would
prove to
be a
thing of
rare
beauty.
She was
the
dazzling
Esmerelda.
A
dark-eyed
gypsy
girl
who, the
victim
of a
coward's
jealous
rage, is
unjustly
convicted
of a
crime
she did
not
commit.
Her
sentence
is death
by
hanging.
Only one
man
would
answer:
the
hunchback
Quasimodo
-- the
bell
ringer
of Notre
Dame.
$20.00
Dustjacket
Only
Invisible
Man, The
-- H.
G. Wells
1933
Universal
Film --
Dir:
James
Whale
starring
Claude
Rains,
Gloria
Stuart;
William
Harrigan
To
hear a
voice,
to see
footprints,
to reach
out into
nothingness
and
touch
warm
flesh --
such
were the
terrifying
experiences
of those
who
encountered
the
Invisible
Man!
Griffin,
a young
medical
student,
working
behind
locked
doors,
had
discovered
the
secret
of
invisibility.
His
demonstration
was
himself
-- but
he
didn't
have the
time to
learn
how to
become
visible
again.
The
avenues
that
were
opened
were
infinite.
One
could do
anything!
Griffin
tried,
and
wrought
terror
and
havoc.
Here is
a story
that is
chilling
in its
horror,
astounding
in its
conception,
and
fascinating
in its
enfolding.
$30.00
Dustjacket
Only
King
Kong -- Edgar
Wallace,
Merian
Cooper
1933
RKO Film
--
Dir:
Merian
Cooper
&
Ernest
Schoedsack
starring
Fay
Wray,
Bruce
Cabot,
Robert
Armstrong
This
is the
thrilling
story of
Beauty
and the
Beast
...
Beauty
--- a
waif
from the
sidewalks
of New
York ...
the
Beast
... a
monster
from the
dim dawn
of Time
itself.
Against
a
background
of
steaming
jungles,
haunted
by
prehistoric
terrors
..
dominated
by the
mighty
"Kong"
... Ann
and her
mate
battle
through
dangers
that Man
can only
dream
about
today.
King
Kong
claims
her as
his
bride,
fights
for her
with man
eating
dinosaurs
.. wades
through
the
asphalt
of
primeval
swamps
to
battle
with
three-horned
monsters
who
should
have
died ten
million
years
ago ...
then in
the
man-made
mountains
that are
New York
.. King
Kong
finds
his
dramatic
end.
Here is
a story
that has
never
been
told
before
... a
story to
challenge
all who
admit
imagination.
$30.00
Dustjacket
Only
London
After
Midnight
-- Mary
Coolidge-Rask
1927
MGM Film
--
Dir:
Tod
Browning
starring
Lon
Chaney,
Polly
Moran;
Percy
Williams
"A
criminal,
when
hypnotized
under
proper
conditions,
will
re-enact
his
crime."
On this
theory
Burke,
Chief
Detective
Inspector
at
Scotland
Yard,
attempts
to solve
the
famous
mysteries
of
Balfour
House
where
the
"spirit"
of Roger
Balfour,
supposedly
a
suicide,
has been
seen at
night.
The
superstition
is
strengthened
when the
dead
man's
casket
is found
to be
empty,
and when
young
Harry,
his son,
is
murdered
in the
neglected
garden
of
Balfour
House
there is
a double
crime to
be
traced.
The
tread of
ghostly
footsteps,
the wail
of the
banshee,
the
dread
lure of
the
vampire,
the
trail of
the
midnight
assassin
and
numerous
other
mysterious
happenings
all play
their
part in
tracking
down the
murderer
-- and
when the
crime is
re-enacted
Burke's
theories
are
borne
out in
an
entirely
unexpected
way.
$30.00
Dustjacket
Only
Murders
in the
Rue
Morgue
-- Edgar
Allen
Poe
1932
Universal
Film --
Dir:
Robert
Florey
starring
Bela
Lugosi,
Sydney
Fox;
Leon
Ames
Blood-curdling
shrieks
issue
from an
old
house on
the Rue
Morgue
at three
in the
morning.
Horrified
neighbors,
rushing
up the
stairs,
hear the
sound of
strange,
unintelligible
voices
behind
closed
doors
and a
moment
later
break in
upon one
of the
most
terrible,
baffling
and
mysterious
scenes
ever
recorded
in
fiction
or fact!
Stark
murder,
wholesale
and
violent.
Perpetrated
by an
agent
superhuman
in
strength,
brutality
and
cunning!
And not
a single
clue for
the
police
to
follow
-- not
even a
clue to
the
means of
escape
from the
scene --
yet less
than
three
minutes
had
elapsed
and
voices
had been
distinctly
heard.
Impossible!
Incredible!
Beyond
human
conjecture!
So said
the
police
-- yet
to that
strange
scholarly
recluse,
Monsieur
Dupin,
it was
simply a
matter
of
analysis,
and here
it is --
the
solution
to the
most
famous
mystery
in
fiction,
THE
MURDERS
IN THE
RUE
MORGUE.
$30.00
Dustjacket
Only
Old
Dark
House,
The -- J.
B.
Priestley
1932
Universal
Film --
Dir:
James
Whale
starring
Boris
Karloff,
Charles
Laughton,
Gloria
Stuart
There
were
five of
them in
the
house --
strangers
cut off
from the
world by
thunderstorm
and
landslide
in a
remote
corner
of
Wales.
Terror
of the
unknown
draws
them
together
-- makes
them
open
their
pasts to
each
other --
makes
them
know
each
other as
in
ordinary
life
they
never
could.
Then as
the
excitement
reaches
its
peak,
when
Margaret,
alone on
the
stairs,
finds
the
drunken
monster
-- but
we could
not
deprive
you of
the
thrill
this
story
will
give, by
revealing
the
outcome.
Whether
or not
you have
ever
experienced
the fear
of the
unknown,
the
sinister
menace
of an
old dark
house,
you
cannot
fail to
be
thrilled
by this
narrative
of
mystery
and
terror,
by the
experiences
of these
people
who seek
shelter
only to
encounter
horrors
infinitely
worse
than the
storm
from
which
they
fled.
$30.00
Dustjacket
Only
Phantom
of the
Opera,
The -- Gaston
Leroux
1925
Universal
Film --
Dir:
Rupert
Julian
&
Ernst
Laemmle
starring
Lon
Chaney,
Mary
Philbin,
Norman
Kerry
The
Opera of
Paris is
the
scene of
this
story --
from the
Lyre of
Apollo
on top
of its
seventeen
stories
to the
lake
that
lies
beneath
its five
cellars,
In the
process
of
ransacking
the
archives
of the
National
Academy
of
Music,
the
author
was
struck
by the
coincidences
between
the
phenomena
ascribed
to the
legendary
opera
ghost
and the
mysterious
conditions
that
attended
the
kidnapping
of a
famous
lyric
singer,
Carlotta
and thus
forces
her to
give up
her role
(Marguerite
in
Faust)
for
unknown
Christine
Daaé.
Christine
meets
this
phantom
(a
masked
man) in
the
catacombs,
where he
lives.
What's
his goal
? What's
his
secret
?
There is
also the
disappearance
of the
Vicomte
de
Chagny
and the
death of
his
brother
Count
Philippe
whose
body was
found on
the bank
of the
lake
that
exists
on the
Rue
Scribe
side of
the
lower
cellars.
In the
course
of the
tale
dealing
with the
weird
occurrences
of that
tragedy
the
author
shows
that the
ghost
and
elusive
agent of
the
crimes
committed
in the
cellars
are the
same.