Midnight Marquee is pleased to present the second entry in the MidMar Actors Series. This revised volume features in-depth analyses of 30 of the films that helped create the legend of Boris Karloff: Arsenic and Old Lace Before I Hang Behind the Mask The Black Cat Black Friday The Black Room The Body Snatcher Bride of Frankenstein British Intelligence Charlie Chan at the Opera The Climax Comedy of Terrors Corridors of Blood Devil's Island Die, Monster, Die! Frankenstein Frankenstein 1970 Th...

Boris Karloff Presents: Tales of the Frightened was first published as a book in 1963, and included such stories as "Man in the Raincoat", “The Deadly Dress", "The Hand of Fate", “Don't Lose Your Head", "Call at Midnight", "Just Inside the Cemetery", "The Fortune Teller", "The Vampire Sleeps", "Mirror of Death", and "Never Kick a Black Cat".The book was like many other excellent anthologies, such as The Ghostly Gallery, Stories that Scared Even Me, and Stories that Go Bump in the N...

Boris Karloff A Gentleman's Life by Scott Allen NolenCHAPTER 1: The Prolific PrattsCHAPTER 2: Canadian PasturesCHAPTER 3: Trial and ErrorCHAPTER 4: The Right CornerCHAPTER 5: MilestonesCHAPTER 6: Son and DaughterCHAPTER 7: Doing His PartCHAPTER 8: CrossroadsCHAPTER 9: Renaissance ManCHAPTER 10: HomeCHAPTER 11: A Very Good YearCHAPTER 12: The Man Who Lives AgainAPPENDIX A: Stage Performances...

"Horror means something revolting. Anybody can show you a pailful of innards. But the object of the roles I played is not to turn your stomach - but merely to make your hair stand on end." –Boris Karloff.And make our hair stand on end, he did. Sometimes, he played the good guy, but more often, he showed us the dark side of humanity and the supernatural. He played both Frankenstein's Monster and the evil doctor himself. He played executioners, island explorers, criminals, g...

The filming of the first horror films coincides with the creation of the actual cinema. Various actors, having experienced stage debut, will then be offered roles of iconic characters from Gothic fantasy literature. This was the case of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, known worldwide for their interpretations of the monster Frankenstein and Count Dracula.Therefore, two superstars in both senses of the term, who knew to impose, at the same time, the ‘terror’ gender and illustrate by ...

It is 1938 and there is murder afoot on the set of Son of Frankenstein Boris Karloff has been framed for murder! He joins forces with Basil Rathbone, in full Sherlockian mode, and a gleeful Bela Lugosi. It s a case of the legends of horror meet the three stooges as our daring heroes search for a missing movie mogul and end up crossing swords with the Hollywood Mob.

Le tournage des premiers films d’épouvante coïncide avec la création du cinéma proprement dit. Divers acteurs ayant connu des débuts sur les planches se verront alors proposer des rôles de personnages emblématiques de la littérature fantastique gothique. Ce fut le cas de Boris Karloff et de Bela Lugosi, mondialement reconnus pour leurs interprétations du monstre de Frankenstein et du comte Dracula. Deux monstres sacrés au double sens du terme, donc, qui surent en même temps imposer le genr...

The Legendary Classic – Out-Of-Print For Almost 50 Years!With 70 Pages Of Never-Before-Seen Photos And Newly-Unearthed Frankenstein Facts, Fun And Commentary!"A whole compendium of Frankensteinian lore, enough to keep most of us more than satisfied. Not only is the main line of development of the Frankenstein Monster charted, but related themes which contribute (like the Golem legend) to it are examined in some detail. Starting with the book by Mary Shelley...

The screams...the grisly sound effects...the rumbling organ music. Sounds in the dark come strange, mysterious, and terrifying in twenty-one episodes of such classic series as Lights Out, Inner Sanctum, Suspense, and many more. Spine-chilling tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Arch Oboler, Robert A. Arthur, David Kogan, and Alonzo Deen Cole dabble in dark realms. Boris Karloff, Maurice Tarplin, Paul McGrath, and Bernard Lenrow deliver pulse-pounding performances as the haunted an...

Boris Karloff is the star of our Hollywood Stage presentation of David Copperfield. Charles Dickens is rightly regarded as amongst the foremost of English novelists. One of his great creations is David Copperfield which chronicles the young mans journey from childhood to maturity and the problems and hurdles that bestride his path.

Encounter the death who walks, rats, descents in to madness, ghosts, mad scientists, crimes against nature and much more in this classic collection presenting twenty-two tales of the supernatural from authors such as Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens and Ambrose Bierce. Features performances from Peter Lorre, Hal Holbrooke, Boris Karloff and the work of many leading radio directors, writers and actors of the day. Also included are episodes from Strange, a rarely heard series narra...

It...is...later...than...you...think! Radio's premier showcase for heart-stopping horror is presented in this collection of twenty great episodes of Lights Out! Produced, written, and directed by broadcasting legend Arch Oboler - and starring Boris Karloff, Mercedes McCambridge, Dinah Shore, Gloria Blondell, and more - these tales are devilishly devised to keep you up all night!Radio, more than any other medium of popular entertainment, is an ideal vehicle for dark tales of dark deeds. Per...