{"title":"David J. Skal","description":"David J. Skal (1952 - 2024) was the author several critically acclaimed books on fantastic literature and genre cinema, including The Monster Show; Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen; Screams of Reason; Mad Science and Modern Culture; V Is for Vampire: The A to Z Guide to Everything Undead; and, with Elias Savada, Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning. With Nina Auerbach, he co-edited the Norton Critical Edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula. His writing appeared in a variety of publications, ranging from The New York Times to Cinefantastique,  and for television, on the A\u0026amp;E series Biography. He wrote, produced, and directed a dozen original DVD documentaries, including features on the Universal Studios' classic monster movies, and a behind-the-scenes chronicle of the Academy Award-winning film Gods and Monsters. He lived in Los Angeles","products":[{"product_id":"hollywood-gothic-the-tangled-web-of-dracula-from-novel-to-stage-to-screen-paperback","title":"Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fully updated edition of David J. Skal's \u003ci\u003eHollywood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Gothic\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The ultimate book on \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eNewsweek).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David J. Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eincludes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e black-and-white Illustrations throughout, plus a new Introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377333272799,"sku":"9780571211586","price":29.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/I__Cs6n7R39780571211586.webp?v=1789232824"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/david-j-skal.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}