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Article: Things that go bump in the night down the ages; History of Terror. By Paul Newman (Sutton: pounds 20).
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2000
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Fear on film: Boris Karloff as the monster in James Whale's 1931 movie of Frankenstein.
Fear - that dark, secretive thing which haunts the minds of the sane and insane alike - is a potent subject for analysis and Paul Newman has written a fascinating book which is disturbing enough to make you look over your shoulder at twilight.
Both fear and its sister emotion - dread - are protean qualities which change shape in the imagination, they are powerful emotions which are capable of deforming ordinary objects (or people) by turning them into monsters, creatures ...