2000, ISBN: 9780810830448

Paperback, Hardcover

Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1970. 655 pp. Book Club Code N45. Actually undated - circa 1970. Both titles in a single volume: Dracula and Frankenstein, with a wraparound d… More...

Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1970. 655 pp. Book Club Code N45. Actually undated - circa 1970. Both titles in a single volume: Dracula and Frankenstein, with a wraparound dustjacket painting by Frank Frazetta. Black cloth lettered in red on the spine; red endpapers; headband. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks around edges; no interior markings. Bram Stoker, born in Dublin in 1847, was part of the entire artistic community in London, the community that included Oscar Wilde, James McNeill Whistler, Arthur Conan Doyle and many others. Although he had never visited Eastern Europe, he had an Hungarian friend named Armin Vambery who liked to spin dark tales about the Carpathian Mountains. And, of course, he had read Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu and The Vampyr by John Polidori, the writer who is often credited with the creation of the vampire genre. Stoker's novel, Dracula, was a huge hit at the time, and has remained one ever since. As for Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus was originally published in 1818. It was written during a ghost-story-telling contest between her new husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Polidori, George Gordon - Lord Byron, and herself. This amazing young woman won the contest and in the process, created the most iconic monster of all time. Her idea has been used in a few hundred films and even more often in short stories, novels and comic books. More people are familiar with Mary Shelley's creation than any of the work written by the other famous contestants, her husband Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori, who wrote The Vampyre.. First Printing - First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Frank Frazetta;. 8vo. Book., Nelson Doubleday, 1970, 3, Portland, OR: Collectors Press, 2000. 256 pp, folio (13/14" H). Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "As long as there have been storytellers, audiences have sought stories that make their flesh creep and their blood curdle - stories that slither into the darkest corners of our psyches. These are the tales that have been read furtively under covers or retold in whispers by the light of campfires. From Horace Walpole to Stephen King, the masters of horror have offered us just such tales of the eerie and the spectral. Author Robert Weinberg has assembled the best of these phantasmal visions. Here is a vivid recounting of the writers, illustrators, publishers, actors, and filmmakers who for more than two centuries have fed our hunger for the macabre. As a student of the field whose collection of 25,000 genre-related materials is among the finest worldwide, Weinberg is a uniquely qualified writer whose perspectives span the spectrum of horror. (This book) begins with English author Horace Walpole who, in 1765, gave birth to the Gothic novel 'The Castle of Otranto'. Mary Shelley plundered new depths of darkness with 'Frankenstein', and late nineteenth-century readers feasted voraciously on Oscar Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and Henry James' 'The Turn of the Screw'. Washington Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne each cast their unique spell on tales of the weird. As the modern era unfolded, horror has crept, howled, and slimed its way into the twentieth century on celluloid and paper, and Weinberg reveiws the silents and talkies, the comics, the paperbacks, and hardcovers - including such haunting and immortal creations as Frankenstein, Dracula, and 'The Phantom of the Opera'." Light wear at top/bottom of spine and at corners, minor bump at bottom of rear hinge. Dust jacket has minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds, two tiny bumps on front hinge.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+., Collectors Press, 2000, 3, Lanham MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996. (USA) Presumed 1st edition, Remainder mark to bottom edge of pages, no other markings, otherwsie Fine in Fi9e dust jacket. Black cloth, xvi, 295pp, index, frontis portrati , a few B&W photos. Mae Clarke was an American actress. She is widely remembered for playing Henry Frankenstein's bride Elizabeth, who is chased by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, and for being on the receiving end of James Cagney's halved grapefruit in The Public Enemy. (1.8 JM HOJ 300/1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Remainder., Scarecrow Press, 1996, 5<

1996, ISBN: 0810830442

Hardcover

[EAN: 9780810830448], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Scarecrow Press, Lanham MD], ACTORS UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHY ACTRESSES MOVIES TELEVISON, Jacket, (USA) Presumed 1st edition, Remainder … More...

[EAN: 9780810830448], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Scarecrow Press, Lanham MD], ACTORS UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHY ACTRESSES MOVIES TELEVISON, Jacket, (USA) Presumed 1st edition, Remainder mark to bottom edge of pages, no other markings, otherwsie Fine in Fi9e dust jacket. Black cloth, xvi, 295pp, index, frontis portrati , a few B&W photos. Mae Clarke was an American actress. She is widely remembered for playing Henry Frankenstein's bride Elizabeth, who is chased by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, and for being on the receiving end of James Cagney's halved grapefruit in The Public Enemy. (1.8 JM HOJ 300/1 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾", Books<