Mike Mayo - The Horror Show Guide

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Mike Mayo wrote the original VideoHounds Horror Show, along with Video Premieres and War Films. He also edited three volumes of the DVD Guide, and was the host of the nationally syndicated Movie Show on Radio, also called Max and Mike on the Movies. He has reviewed films for The Washington Post and The Roanoke Times. He is the author of American Murder: Criminals, Crime and the Media and the novel Jimmy the Stick. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Mayo, Mike, 1948

The horror show guide : the ultimate frightfest of movies / by Mike Mayo.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-57859-420-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)

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When I wrote the first VideoHounds Horror Show in 1997, the film business in general and horror in particular were nothing like they are today. The changes, I discovered, were both obvious and subtle, aimed at a new generation of fans who have more experience, if not more sophisticated tastes. An update was needed. This book looks at the most important horror films that have been made in the last fifteen years and combines those reviews with the core pieces from the first book. The result is a mosaic of the horror film from 1910, when the