Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 26. Chapters: The Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, The Curse of the Werewolf, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, The Brides of Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Mummy, Island of Terror, So Long at the Fair, Frankenstein Created Woman, The Revenge of Frankenstein, Night of the Big Heat, Four Sided Triangle, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, The Stranglers of Bombay, The Devil Rides Out, Stolen Face, The Gorgon, The Earth Dies Screaming, Marry Me, Mask of Dust, The Gelignite Gang, Blood Orange, Murder by Proxy, The Astonished Heart, Kill Me Tomorrow, Portrait from Life, A Song for Tomorrow, The Flaw, Stolen Assignment, Distant Trumpet, The Last Man to Hang?, The Horror of It All, Colonel Bogey, Face the Music, Wings of Danger, Children Galore, Mantrap, Home to Danger. Excerpt: The Phantom of the Opera is a 1962 British film based on the novel by Gaston Leroux. The film was made by Hammer Film Productions. The film opens in Victorian London on a December night in 1900. The first night of the season at the London Opera House finds the opening of a new opera by Lord Ambrose D'Arcy (Michael Gough), a wealthy and pompous man, who is annoyed and scornful when the opera manager Lattimer (Thorley Walters) informs him the theater has not been completely sold out. No one will sit in a certain box because it is haunted. Backstage, despite the soothing efforts of the opera's producer, Harry Hunter (Edward de Souza), everyone, including the show's star, Maria, is nervous and upset as if a sinister force was at work. The climax comes during Maria's first aria, when a side of the scenery rips apart to reveal the body of a hanged stage hand. In a panic, the curtain is rung down, and Maria refuses to sing again. With the show postponed, Harry...