Author
I'm an author and film historian, specialising in genre cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s. I've contributed articles to numerous film-related journals in the UK and the US, including: The Dark Side, Little Shoppe of Horrors, Infinity, SFX, Ghosts & Scholars, Scary Monsters Magazine, and The Bright Lights Film Journal. My peer reviewed monograph on Val Lewton's classic chiller I Walked with a Zombie is now available, published by Auteur in conjunction with Liverpool University Press. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781837645169 I've also contributed to the following books: Invasion: The Infinity Guide to Visitor's from Space, edited by Allan Bryce, and Indie Science Fiction Today: Conversations with 21st Century Filmmakers by Kathleen Fernandez-Vander Kaay & Chris Vander Kaay |
My career biography of screenwriter Ardel Wray, written with the kind cooperation of the executor of her Estate, Stefani Warren, first appeared in The Bright Lights Film Journal in 2018. brightlightsfilm.com/ardel-wray-val-lewtons-forgotten-screenwriter/ Selected articles, each based on extensive original research, can also be found in the following journals: The Dark Side Bewitched: The Development of Night of the Demon #175 Night of the Eagle Revisited #181 Karloff's Unproduced Blackbeard #195 Val Lewton's Unproduced Carmilla #197 The Uninvited Revisited #200 Val Lewton's Ghost Ship #203 Lewton vs Breen #210 Unearthly Stranger #216 Val Lewton's Detective Films #232 The Skull of Milton Subotsky #233 Daughter of Darkness #240 Butchering The Body Snatcher #241 Infinity The Thing from Another World #11 Gwangi: Galluping into Oblivion #51 Little Shoppe of Horrors The Trollenberg Terror #48 Ghosts & Scholars The Unseen Night of the Demon #29 |
Keywords: Val Lewton, Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise, Mark Robson, Ardel Wray, Boris Karloff, RKO Radio Pictures, I Walked with a Zombie, Cat People, The Body Snatcher, Bedlam, Isle of the Dead, The Seventh Victim, The Ghost Ship, The Leopard Man, Curse of the Cat People.