From 1928 through 1982, when Columbia Pictures Corporation was a traded stock company, the studio released some of the most famous and popular films dealing with horror, science fiction and fantasy. This volume covers more than 200 Columbia feature films within these genres, among them
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
and
The Revenge of Frankenstein.
Also discussed in depth are the vehicles of such horror icons as Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and John Carradine.
Additionally highlighted are several of Columbia's lesser known genre efforts, including the
Boston Blackie
Crime Doctor
series, such individual features as
By Whose Hand?, Cry of the Werewolf, Devil Goddess, Terror of the Tongs
The Creeping Flesh,
and dozens of the studio's short subjects, serials and made-for-television movies.