Performing Arts, History & Criticism, Horror, Evolution, Popular Culture, Censorship 

Horror Unmasked offers a general introduction to the popular film genre, serves as a guidebook to its film highlights, and celebrates its practitioners, trends, and stories. 

Contents:
Shadowy Silence: Horror Before Sound
Browning and Chaney: The Father of Freaks and the Man of a Thousand Faces
Monster Central: The Great Horror Cycles Begin
Cranking Out the Creepies: Horror in the 1930s and 1940s
Val Lewton and the Terrors of the Unseen
Atomic-Age Monsters: The Sci-Fi/Horror Boom
Blood and Bosoms: The Success of Hammer Horror
The Moment of Shock: Psycho and Peeping Tom
The Corman Poes, and the Peerless Vincent Price
Horror, Italian Style
All Hell Breaks Loose, 1960-1975
Bloody England: Hammer's Competitors
The Sleep of Reason: Horror in Spanish
Godzilla & Co.: Far East Horror in Transition
Polanski, Coffin Joe, and Others
Clark, Craven, Carpenter, and Cronenberg
Mainstream Horror; Or, Bring the Kids!
J- and K-Horror, and Other Asian Entries
The Problem of Torture Porn
Zombies!
There's Usually a Gorilla: Horror-Comedies
Masters for a New Millennium
Is Horror Legit?
Post-Horror and Beyond