Horror scholar David J. Skal's The Monster Show distinguished itself as one of the few accessible, humorous, and smart books about the broader implications of the horror genre. Taking a historical ...

“Rats. Rats. Rats! Thousands! Millions of them! All red blood! All these will I give you if you will obey me!” Horror Film Historian David J. Skal will introduce a screening of DRACULA (1931) at ...

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David John Skal was an American cultural historian, critic, writer, and on-camera commentator known for his research and analysis of horror films and horror literature.

This interview originally aired on Feb. 12, 2017. Dracula is the monster that never dies. At the end of Bram Stoker's novel, published 120 years ago, the vampire is a pile of dust. But a long ...

Bloomsbury, $27.50 (224pp) ISBN 978-1-58234-230-6 All Hallows Eve, to use one of its many aliases, is a night when usual distinctions between fun and fear, children and adults, the living and the dead ...

"The basic image of Stoker is that of a respectable Anglo-Irish gentleman who was very hard working and devoted to his boss," Skal said. "It's a stuffy cardboard cutout. It's not a person. "He was a ...

When encountering the book Dracula for the first time, many readers might expect that Bram Stoker’s 19th-century fable of blood, lust and the undead would be a quaint echo of the vampire’s many screen ...