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LA
DOLCE PAURA
(THE SWEET FEAR)
1960s
Sexy Horror in Italian Movies and Popular Publications
Edited and text by Stefano Piselli, Riccardo Morrocchi
Softcover edition
Size 24x31 cm. — 72 pg. b&w & col.
Italian Text / English text
Vampires! Ghosts! Awful monsters! Half-naked girls! Gloomy castles!
The naive and alluring atmospheres of Italian sexy horrordom
in the movies, books and popular publications of the early sixties.
From Mario Bava’s wonderful nightmares to Renato Polselli’s
delirious vampire stories, from the peculiar “fotoromanzi”
to the dark “cineromanzi” of Malia, from the horror
novels of Frank Bogart and Frank Graegorius to Magnus &
Bunker’s unforgettable “fumetti per adulti”.
The movie posters and “fotobuste” (Seddok, L’amante
del vampiro, L’ultima preda del vampiro, La cripta e l’incubo,
La strage dei vampiri, Metempsyco, I tre volti della paura),
the macabre and alluring covers of Malia as well as those of
the pocket-sized pulp novels (KKK, I Racconti di Dracula, Terrore,
I Romanzi Diabolici), the “fumetti neri” (Kriminal,
Satanik, Sadik), the “cineromanzi” and the “fotoromanzi”
(Il vampiro etrusco, Sola contro il mostro, Il castello maledetto,
Il fantasma vivente, Notte di terrore). A nostalgic illustrated
anthology full of precious publishing rarities, in search of
the lost atmospheres of that magical era. Featuring the bibliographies
of the main publications of the time, as well as a list of all
(or almost all) which was published at the time and a filmography
of the Italian horror films (1957-1966). (The World of the Vampires),
Gritos en la noche (The Awful Dr. Orlof). From Robert S. Baker
& Monty Berman to Michael Powell, from Chano Urueta to Alfonso
Corona Blake, from Giorgio Ferroni to Jess Franco, from Miroslava
Stern to Barbara Shelley, from Pamela Green to Barbara Valentin...
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