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.
