cover image Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen

Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen

David J. Skal. W. W. Norton & Company, $15.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-393-30805-1

Horror novelist Skal presents various 19th- and 20th-century interpretations of everyone's favorite black-cloaked bloodsucker. Featured here are Bram Stoker's Victorian thriller, Max Shreck in the German expressionist film Nosferatu and Bela Lugosi on stage and screen as Count Dracula. Illustrated. (Oct.)no PW review