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[edit] Archive of Selected picture items

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[edit] May 2006

Monsters are common in horror fiction and film. This DVD cover shows horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. Elsa Lanchester from Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Claude Rains from The Invisible Man (1933), Bela Lugosi from Dracula (1931), Claude Rains from Phantom of the Opera (1943), "The Creature" from Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Boris Karloff from Frankenstein (1931), Lon Chaney Jr. from The Wolf Man (1941) and Boris Karloff from The Mummy (1932).

A screenshot from George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) -- a young zombie (Kyra Schon) and her victim (Karl Hardman). Due to the filmmakers' neglect of the (former) requirement to put proper notice on copies of their work, this image and the film it is from are in the public domain.

[edit] July 2006

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Leatherface, portrayed by Gunnar Hansen, from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is considered one of the most famous horror villains in history.

[edit] August 2006

Cover of the first edition of Dracula, Archibald Constable and Company, 1897.

This is a newly and finely bound in mustard-yellow morocco in imitation of the original cloth binding: lettered in red on spine and upper cover, single-line border tooled in red on sides, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. This is a scan of the cover for a first edition, later issue, with the advertisement for “The Shoulder of Shasta” at the back. Bound by The Chelsea Bindery.

[edit] September 2006

The shadow of the vampire is seen climbing stairs in this famous scene from the 1922 film Nosferatu. This image is public domain both by date and the fact that the original work was deemed too derivative of the copyright on Dracula and was ordered destroyed.

[edit] October 2006

Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in the film version of The Shining (1980) directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the novel of the same title by Stephen King. This is an iconic image from a film that is widely regarded to be a classic in the genre.