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I’m happy you brought up Alfred Hitchcock. Many of the anthology books he edited were illustrated by the great Fred Banbery who famously illustrated the Paddington Bear books. He wonderfully captured “creepy” in the aforesaid anthologies. (I was ~10 years old when I discovered him via one of the AH books I stumbled on to at my local library. For some reason, the endpage artwork of a floating AH in one of the books creeped me out. What would you think if you walked into your bedroom and saw a stranger stuck to the ceiling—just staring at you. Many, many questions. Boo!)
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Just finished reading Alfred Hitchcock’s Coffin Corner. Although Hitch didn’t really edit (or have anything to do with the production of) these books.
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Yes, with absolutely dozens of these anthologies allegedly edited by him, I should have posted “edited”, that is, in quotes.
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I had a party to attend w/my BF one year, and I got dressed up early to freak the trick or treaters.
Breeches and tall riding boots, a green plaid silk vest, a show/hunt coat, gloves, a bowler, a riding crop. Purple and yellow eyeshadow - made it look like I had two really baaaad mice - with purple eyeliner, red lipstick, a coupla thick streaks of red running down my forehead & a thinner one out one ear as further evidence of severe head trauma.
When the kids’d arrive, I’d look at them, then look anxiously around, and up over their heads. I’d give them their candy while earnestly asking them, “Have you seen hounds?” They’d answer in the negative. I’d tell them, “Last thing I remember, I was riding hard at a five foot stone wall. We were going so fast! Now I can’t find my horse, the hunt, or hounds! Please let me know if you see them!” and they promised me they would do.
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Had fun roaming my neighborhood in the new Wendigo costume! The only problem is that it was well over eight feet tall including the antlers so I often had to walk in the street to avoid getting caught in the trees. I wonder how the real Forest Spirits avoid that problem.
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I would not want to see that coming down a dark street.
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I spent most of my time lurking near the sidewalk while my kids and their friends went up to porches demanding candy.
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- Curse of the Werewolf
- The Brides of Dracula
- Frankenstein
- The Monster from Hell
These are just some films from the height of Hammer Films’ prolific cinema output in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Many of the musical soundtracks were composed by leading British modernists of the late 20th Century.
Hammer’s music supervisor Philip Martell hired the avant-garde composers of the day.
The likes of Malcolm Williamson (later Master of the Queen’s Music), Elisabeth Lutyens, Benjamin Frankel and Richard Rodney Bennett all made a living scoring horror films alongside their concert hall work.
Prising open Dracula’s coffin to unearth the story of Hammer’s modernist soundtracks, composer and pianist Neil Brand explores the nuts and bolts of scary music – how it is designed to psychologically unsettle us – and explores why avant-garde music is such a good fit for horror.
On his journey into the abyss, Neil visits the haunted mansion where many of the Hammer classics were made, Bray Studios in Berkshire
Neil gets the horrifying low-down from:
- Hammer aficionado, Wayne Kinsey
- Film music historian, David Huckvale
- Composer Richard, Rodney Bennett
- On-screen Hammer scream queen, actress Madeline Smith.
AFAIK it ins’t geo-blocked and you don’t need an account to listen to it.
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Oh that is cruel!
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https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/11/01/thousands-go-to-fake-ai-invented-dublin-halloween-parade
They had thousands of people, why not just be the parade you want to see?
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Good idea!
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