Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning by David J. Skal and Elias Savada
Illustrated throughout with rare photographs, "Dark Carnival" is both an artful, often shocking portrait of a singular film pioneer and an illuminating study of the evolution of horror, essential to an understanding of our continuing fascination with the macabre.
Anchor Books, 1995.
ISBN: 9780385474061. 359 pp.
Illus.
Hardcover. Very good in a very good jacket.