Daniel Cohen's book is a short history of the horror film. It does not contain many details but rather explains only basic plot elements for a number of films. It covers the silents up through the thirties in adequate detail, but then glosses over the 1950s and skips ahead to the seventies. It also mentions some of the greatest horror films (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Texas Chainsaw Massacre) in only one sentence and describes them as "violent" films which offended many people. Horror Movies includes multiple photos of films that it barely mentions in the text. After chapters on the topic of horror films, it sums up their importance in one paragraph. Since this book was published in 1984 and obviously cannot include more recent movies, and in light of its brevity on some of the most important movies, I would not recommend this book.

Generic Charles Fort.Covers a decent range of creatures but is very biased leaning toward the skeptical side.Nice book to introduce cryptozoology or folkore to kids on.

More like Strange and Amazing FALSEHOODS About Star Trek! This author appears to have done little research to compile this book, and any true Star Trek fan can easily dismiss it as ludicrous fiction!

After all, we die-hard fans all know that the Enterprise is a CONSTITUTION class vessel. So why does Mr. Cohen state that it is a CONSTELLATION class ship? This is only one example of several errors, so if you are looking to expand your knowledge of the Star Trek universe, BEWARE of this book!

I loved this book