Classic Monsters of the Movies presents an 84-page, Silver Age, Horror Movies Illustrated History (1939-1949) edition, which continues the vast, historic overview initiated in the publisher's Silents to the Golden Age (see August 2023 post).
In this comprehensive respect, Vol 2 emphasizes that glorious period after the horror genre faced a censorious, four-year slumber. In fact, within the ensuing resurgence, some of the genre's creme de la creme fiends (re)emerged, and not just from Universal, but RKO, Warner Bros, Columbia and Monogram, featuring such hypnotic headliners as Tod Slaughter, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., Matt Willis, Tom Tyler, Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, John Carradine, Simone Simon, Glenn Strange, J. Carrol Naish, Charles Laughton, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, George Zucco, David Bruce, Louise Allbritton, Eric von Stroheim, Rondo Hatten, Ray Milland, Spencer Tracy, Michael Redgrave, Wilfred Walter, Albert Dekker, Veda Ann Borg (aka Lila von Altermann) and (believe it or not) many more.
With this potent plethora, Horror Movies, An Illustrated History, Vol 2 also includes the period's spinetingling string of psychological, existential and scientific offerings, which proved therapeutic during the tension-fraught span of WWII.
Authors/researchers Nige Burton and Jamie Jones, bring all the macabre details to life, entrenching this second Horror Movies, An Illustrated History, as another stunning, Classic Monsters contribution that all horror-movie buffs will hold close to their harried hearts.
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