Horror is both the most perennially popular and geographically diverse of all film genres; arguably, every country that makes movies makes horror movies of one kind or another. This title includes images from the David Del Valle archive, and examines the genre in thematic, historical, and aesthetic terms

• What is 'Horror'?
• Slashers & Serial Killers
• Cannibals, Freaks & Hillbillies
• Revenge of Nature & Environmental Horror
• Science-Fiction Horror
• The Living Dead
• Ghosts & Haunted Houses
• Possession, Demons & Tricksters
• Voodoo, Cults & Satanists
• Vampires & Werewolves
• The Monstrous-Feminine
• Chronology
• Filmography
• Bibliography