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Dracula -- Bram Stoker -- PhotoPlay Edition

1931 Universal Film -- Dir: Tod Browning

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.

Dracula - Bram Stoker - Bela Lugosi

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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.

Dracula - Bram Stoker - Bela Lugosi

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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?

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

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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'.

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley - Boris Karloff

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux - Lon Chaney

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