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CLASSIC HORROR BLOG

Literary Essays on Gothic Horror, Ghost Stories, & Weird Fiction

— from Mary Shelley to M. R. James —

by M. Grant Kellermeyer

Top 7 Film and Stage Adaptations of The Phantom of the Opera

“The Opera Ghost really existed…” Such are the opening lines of Gaston Leroux’s Edwardian homage to the Belle Epoque. Pregnant with...

Top Film Adaptations of Frankenstein: from the Early Icons to Dark Re-imaginings

Like his peers Dracula and Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein's Creature has been featured extensively in film – both adaptations of the...

Top 8 Film Adaptations of The Turn of the Screw

Since its publication in 1898, Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" has absorbed our collective imaginations. It is a story that pits...

The Top 9 Film Interpretations of Dracula: Best Movies and Actors

Excerpted from the Introduction to our best-selling title: BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA: ANNOTATED AND ILLUSTRATED (Available HERE) DRACULA IN...

Do Horror Films and Fiction Do Us Any Good? -- A Defense for the Dark Side of the Library

A Brief, Humanist Apologia for the Horror Genre... Sometimes those things which seem least likely to attract affection and passion are...