Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction xiii VOLUME 1 The Abominable Snowman 1 Aliens 3 Invaders on Earth: The 50s 5 Invaders on Earth: The 60s and 70s 17 Invaders on Earth: The 80s and Beyond 23 Encounters in Outer Space 29 Benevolent Aliens 42 Alligators and Crocodiles 52 Androids ( see Robots) Animal Giants 55 Anthologies 57 Ape Giants ( see also Apes and Monkeys) 70 Apes and Monkeys ( see also Ape Giants; Planet of the Apes) 77 Atlantis 83 The Atomic Bomb ( see Futures on Earth) Automobiles ( see Cars and Vehicular Villains) Bathory, Elizabeth: The Bloody Countess 85 Bats 88 Bears 89 Big Bugs ( see Bug Giants) Bigfoot 90 Birds 92 Blobs 95 Brains 99 Disembodied Brains 100 Living Heads 101 Brain Suckers 104 Brain Transplants 106 Bug Giants 109 Bug-People 116 Bugs ( see also Bug Giants and Bug-People) 120 Cannibals 124 Cars and Vehicular Villains 133 Cat-People ( see also Cats) 135 Cats ( see also Cat-People) 138 Cavepeople 141 Comic Book Fantasy Heroes 148 Computers 153 Crabs and Crustaceans 154 Crocodiles ( see Alligators and Crocodiles) Demons and Devils 157 Dinosaurs ( see also Japanese Giant Monsters) 175 Time of the Dinosaur 176 Lost Worlds 179 Dinosaurs on the Loose 185 Dr. Jekyll ( see Jekyll, Dr., and Family) Dogs 188 Dolls 191 Dorian Gray ( see Gray, Dorian) Dracula ( see Vampires--Dracula and Family) Dreamkillers 195 Edgar Allan Poe ( see Poe Films) ESP ( see Psychic Ability) Fish ( see also Sea Monsters; Fish-People) 199 Fish-People ( see also Fish; Sea Monsters) 202 Frankenstein''s Monster 209 Universal Series 210 Hammer Frankensteins 215 Further Frankensteins 218 Freaks 225 Futures on Earth 235 After the Bomb 235 Utopias and Dystopias 239 Gamera ( see Japanese Giant Monsters) Genies 256 Ghosts 260 Ghouls ( see Zombie Flesh Eaters) Giants ( see Animal Giants; Ape Giants; Human Giants) Gill-men ( see Fish-People) Godzilla ( see Japanese Giant Monsters) Golem ( see Statues Come to Life) Grave Robbers 280 Gray, Dorian 284 Hands 287 VOLUME 2 Heads ( see Brains--Living Heads) Human Giants 291 Hunchbacks ( see Freaks) Hypnotists 296 Insects ( see Bug Giants; Bug-People; Bugs) Invisibility 302 Jack the Ripper 308 Japanese Giant Monsters 312 Godzilla 313 Gamera 316 Other Giant Japanese Monsters 317 Jekyll, Dr., and Family 319 Machines ( see also Cars and Vehicular Villains; Computers; Robots) 325 Mad Scientists ( see also Brains; Frankenstein''s Monster; Invisibility; Jekyll, Dr., and Family; Shrinkage) 327 Madmen ( see also Cannibals; Jack the Ripper; Phantoms; Poe Films; Wax Museums) 348 Early Madmen (From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Psycho: 1919-1960) 350 Early Psychos (From Psycho to Halloween: 1960-1978) 361 The Slice''n'' Dice Wave (In the wake of Halloween: 1978- ) 381 Magicians 400 Mars 402 Monkeys ( see Apes and Monkeys) The Moon 406 Mummies 412 The Universal Series 413 The Aztec Mummy Series 418 More Mummies 419 Mythology ( see also Genies; Sinbad; Sword and Sorcery) 423 Nuclear Holocaust ( see Futures on Earth) Phantoms 428 Planet of the Apes Series 432 Plants 435 Poe Films 442 Early Poe 443 The Corman Cycle 447 Modern Poe 449 Psychic Ability 453 Psychos ( see Madmen) Rats 459 Reincarnation 462 Robots ( see also Computers; Machines) 465 Sasquatch ( see Bigfoot) Satan ( see Demons and Devils) Sea Monsters ( see also Crabs and Crustaceans; Fish; Fish-People) 476 Sharks ( see Fish) Shrinkage 483 Sinbad 487 Slasher Movies ( see Madmen--The Slice ''n'' Dice Wave) Snakes 491 Space Travel ( see also Aliens--Encounters in Outer Space; Mars; The Moon; Venus) 495 Statues Come to Life 501 Sword and Sorcery ( see also Mythology; Sinbad) 503 Telekinesis ( see Psychic Ability) Telepathy ( see Psychic Ability) Time Travel 510 Trees ( see Plants) Two-Headed Creatures 519 Underground Worlds 520 Underwater Monsters ( see Sea Monsters) Utopias ( see Futures on Earth) Vampires 524 Dracula and Family 525 Hammer''s Undead 535 Other Vampires 542 Venus 563 Voodoo ( see also Witches, Warlocks, and Cults) 566 Wax Museums 574 Werewolves 577 Universal''s "Larry Talbot" Series 579 Spain''s "Waldemar Daninsky" Series 581 Other Lycanthropes 583 Witches, Warlocks, and Cults ( see also Voodoo) 593 Yeti ( see The Abominable Snowman) Zombie Flesh Eaters ( see also Zombies) 615 Zombies ( see also Zombie Flesh Eaters) 622 Appendix A: Blaxploitation 643 Appendix B: 3-D 645 Appendix C: Westerns 647 Title Index 649 (Including authors'' rating, 1 -10, of 1,908 of the films).