If you like The monster show
David J. Skal
"I'll show you what horror means," snarled Fredric March in the 1931 film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Six decades later, the acclaimed author of Hollywood Gothic makes good on Mr. Hyde's promise with the most ambitious and entertaining history of the genre ever published. America is in love with horror, with demon children, gender-bending vampires, and the battlefield aesthetic of post-Vietnam movies. Horror…
