Horror Fiction
Horror Fiction - Suggested Reading
Allan Moore, From Hell, The Courtyard
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting, We have always lived in the Castle, The Sundial, The Salem Witchcraft Trials
Henry James, The Turn of the Screw
Joel Townsley Rogers, The Red Right Hand
Leo Perutz, Master of the Day of Judgement
Arthur Machen, The Three Impostors
Sadeq Hedayat, The Blind Owl
Horror Films- online
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
Georges Melies' Un homme de tetes
Georges Melies' Un homme a la Tete en Caoutchouc
Georges Melies' La chaudron infernal
Georges Melies' Barbe-Bleu
D.W. Griffith's The Sealed Room
Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu
Tod Browning's The Unholy Three (1925 version)
James Watson's Fall of the House of Usher (not the Epstein verison)
Jean Epstein's Chute de la Maison Usher (not theWatson version)
George Romer's Night of the Living Dead
Horror Films - Reference
Horror, The Aurum Film Encyclopeda (edited by Phil Hardy)
Classics of the Horror Film, William K. Everson
More Classics of the Horror Film, William K. Everson
First week
The Haunted Screen, Lotte Eisner (the first, and still a standard, aesthetic reference on German Expressionism)
From Caligari to Hitler, Siegfried Kracauer (the political aspects of Weimar cinema)