pt. 1. The gothic
1. Silent prototypes
The monster born and bred
The German influence
Lon Chaney and Tod Browning
2. The horror film
Tod Browning's Dracula
James Whale's Frankenstein
A cycle spawned
3. Pre-code horrors
Madness reigns
Karl Freund's The mummy
Jungle horrors
Edgar Ulmer's The black cat
4. Gothic moderne
Variations on a gothic theme
WereWolf in London
Bride of Frankenstein
Dracula's daughter
Son of Frankenstein
5. Universal, the horror factory
House of horrors
In the gothic tradition
pt. 2. The psychic
6. Big-budget chills
Glossy hauntings
Music and madness
The terror of evil
7. Val Lewton and the psychology of fear
Poetry and danger
Horror meets terror
pt. 3. The atomic
8. Poisoned air
Kiss me deadly
Lab work
9. Poisoned waters
Modern inconveniences
Cheap thrills
pt. 4. The cosmic
10. The science-fiction film
Unearthly subversion
The good neighbor policy
Green meanies
11. Drive-in terror
The last of the epics
Those monsters next door
Don't step on it!
12. Last hurrahs
Alfred Hitchcock
William Castle, master of gore and gimmicks
Horror queens
Roger Corman
2001 : a space odyssey
The end of two eras
Epilogue : rated "ick!"