Happy Halloween! I know it is only October 1, but I can’t wait. I’ve come to think of the entire month of October as Halloween MONTH, and I know the chain drugs stores will back me up on this. I watch horror movies all month, read horror fiction all month, listen to vintage horror radio and spoken word, and check out horror theatre and haunted attractions. And yes, increasingly, blog about it.
Horror (most of it Gothic because that’s how I roll) has its own section here on Travalanche. I’ll be adding many new posts to that section every day this month, but as a lead in, I thought I’d provide this menu of some of our notable posts from the past for your decadent delectation. Just click on the link for the article. (No, please do that):
Some Thoughts on Gothic Horror
On the Vaudeville of Gothic Horror
The First (Silent) Version of Frankenstein
Imported Nightmares: On Some Early and Influential German(ic) Horror
The Voluptuous Horror of Conrad Veidt
The Mystery and Horror of Lon Chaney and Tod Browning
The Phenomenon of “The Bat”
Doctors Jekyll and Messers Hyde: An Unconscionable Number of Versions
The Many Faces of The Phantom of the Opera
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (silent version)
On Dracula and His Children
On Frankenstein and Family
The Mummy and its Offspring
On the Wolf Man, et al
The Invisible Man and His Offspring
On Mad Doctors in Movies
On Voodoo and Zombies in Classic Horror
Sadists and Serial Killers in Early Horror
Evil Magicians and Mesmerists in Classic Horror
A Short History of Evil Ventriloquism in the Movies
Giant Monsters, Phase One
The Best Ape-Related Horror Films of All Time
On James Whale
On Karl Freund
The Horror and Mystery of Bela Lugosi
On Colin Clive
On Peter Lorre
The Classic Era Horror of John Carradine
Dwight Frye
On Scream Queen Fay Wray
The Many Faces of Una O’Connor
Lionel Atwill
George Zucco
Classic Horror Meets the “Women’s Picture”
The Horror and Villainy of Charles Laughton
Lon Chaney Jr.
Films of Val Lewton
The Horror of Vincent Price
The Horror of Edward D. Wood, Jr.
The Surprisingly Extensive Film Career of Tor Johnson
Vampira
The Camp Horror of William “One Shot” Beaudine
Viva Roger Corman!
On the Genius of Charles B. Griffith
On William Castle
Spider Baby
Christopher Lee
Peter Cushing
Die, Die, My Darling
The Horror of Late Career Ray Milland
Darkness in the Late Career of Ruth Gordon
The Munsters vs. The Addams Family
Buster Keaton: The Spook Comedies
Abbott and Costello: The Horror Comedies
The Elephant Man
The World Awaits a True Lizzie Borden
In addition to these, there are about another 200 posts in our horror section, including lots of capsule descriptions of classic horror films that played on TCM and elsewhere, some reviews of more contemporary horror movies, more bios of famous horror actors, listings about horror theatre and attractions, radio and television horror, and articles about classic horror writers. Coming this month look for much, much more!
Filed under: Hollywood (History), Horror (Mostly Gothic), Movies Tagged: classic horror, Gothic Horror, Halloween, movies 
