James F. Broderick is a professor of English at New Jersey City University in Jersey City.

“I love, LOVED this book. The author has a real way with words and a fun, readable style. [He] is a tremendously readable essayist, with a flowing, succinct and clever style that is very appealing. In addition to fine writing, Broderick supplies good, solid insights and fresh perspectives on the books and the movies, with a judicious use of quotes and keen commentary. To author James F. Broderick I say, More books, please”—Classic Images; “offers pithy plot summations and spot-on critical interpretations of themes in each of the featured works along with readable and striking analysis of each of the related film adaptations”—Reference & Research Book News.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction      Altered States      The Amityville Horror      The Birds      Dead Ringers      Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde      The Exorcist      The Fly      Frankenstein      Freaks      From Hell      Ghost Story      The Hound of the Baskervilles      Jaws      The Masque of the Red Death      The Night Stalker      The Ninth Gate      Nosferatu      The Phantom of the Opera      Psycho      Re-Animator      The Serpent and the Rainbow      The Shining      Sleepy Hollow      The Thing from Another World      Village of the Damned      Notes      Bibliography      Index