Just throwing this out there, so other lovers of movies about spooky houses can add it to their list of upcoming books to buy, McFarland has announced this title to be released later this year. I don’t have a lot of information about it other than the title is The Haunted House on Film and is by Paul Meehan. I’ve been a huge fan of haunted house movies ever since those old black and white thrillers from the ’30s and ’40s (which always turned out to be some sort of Scooby Doo endings), but once I got to see The Haunting (1963) and The Legend of Hell House (1973), there was no turning back. So I’m thrilled that someone has put a book together compiling all of these great movies. Granted, the “Historial Analysis” has me worried a bit that it might be one of those academic, microscopic looks at the sub-genre, but one can hope, right?
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. But figured I would just start getting the word out there!
As the author of this book I can assure you that it’s not a dry, academic study of the topic. The “historical analysis” business was forced on me by the publisher. Fans of horror movies will be pleased with the first, comprehensive look at the sub-genre
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Glad to hear that and I’m really looking forward to it, Paul!
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BTW, the book has now been published and is on sale at amazon.com and the mcfarlandpub.com website. Thanks for your interest.
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