Smirk, Sneer and Scream

Film historian Mark Clark lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

• Table of ContentsPreface      Part One: Horror Stars      Lon Chaney      Boris Karloff      Bela Lugosi      Lionel Atwill      Dwight Frye      Peter Lorre      John Carradine      George Zucco      Lon Chaney, Jr.      Vincent Price      Peter Cushing      Christopher Lee      Other Horror Stars      Part Two: Mainstream Actors      Fredric March in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde      Charles Laughton in Island of Lost Souls      Claude Rains in The Invisible Man      Laird Cregar in The Lodger      Anthony Perkins in Psycho      Duane Jones in Night of the Living Dead      Michael Rooker in Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer      Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs      Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense      Other Mainstream Actors      Part Three: Leading Ladies      Gloria Holden in Dracula’s Daughter      Simone Simon in Cat People      Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?       Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby      Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair in The Exorcist      Sissy Spacek in Carrie      Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween      Kathy Bates in Misery      Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs      Other Leading Ladies      Appendix: Horror Cinema and the Academy Awards      Bibliography      Index

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