duminică, 2 noiembrie 2014

Chronology facts about world horror cinema


Chronology facts about world horror cinema

1910 2007

Note: the informations above were taken from the book ‘The A to Z of horror cinema (The A to Z guide)’ by Peter Hutchings (2009).

1764 Great Britain: Horace Walpole’s The castle of Otranto has come to be seen by many literary historians as the first major Gothic novel.

1818 Great Britain: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is published.

1849 United States: Edgar Allan Poe dies. Several of his Gothic stories are later adapted for the screen, among them The fall of the House of Usher, Murders in the Rue Morgue and The pit and the pendulum.