Before award-winning director Dan Curtis became known for directing epic war movies, he darkened the small screen with the horror genre's most famous soap opera, Dark Shadows, and numerous subsequent made-for-TV horror movies. This second edition serves as a complete filmography, featuring each of Curtis's four-dozen productions and 100 photographs. With the addition of new chapters on Dark Shadows, the author further explores the groundbreaking daytime television serial. Fans and scholars alike will find an exhaustive account of Curtis's work, as well as a new foreword from My Music producer Jim Pierson and an afterword from Dr. Mabuse director Ansel Faraj.

The award-winning and innovative director Dan Curtis was known for helming epic war movies, but before that he darkened the small screen with the horror genre’s most famous soap opera. Curtis directed the groundbreaking daytime television serial Dark Shadows from 1966 to 1971 and then turned his lens to numerous made-for-TV horror movies. This book examines 16 horror films that Curtis produced, co-wrote, or directed, as well as the cultural impact of Dark Shadows and its various incarnations. The book features 69 photographs and a foreword by Jim Pierson of Dan Curtis Productions.

The award-winning producer-director Dan Curtis could do it all-and did. This book provides an overview of all four dozen of Dan Curtis's productions, and features more than 100 photographs, a foreword by CHiPs star Larry Wilcox, a preface by My Music producer Jim Pierson, and an afterword by Doctor Mabuse director Ansel Faraj.

The award-winning producer-director Dan Curtis could do it all-and did. The revised second edition of this book provides an overview of all four dozen of Dan Curtis's productions. Also included are rare photographs, factual "significa," and information about newer events in the world of Dark Shadows.

The award-winning auteur producer-director Dan Curtis made television history with the epic miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, the horror movies The Night Stalker and Trilogy of Terror, and the cult-classic Gothic serial Dark Shadows. Curtis also generated a large body of work in the mystery genre. This book provides an overview of Dan Curtis's 40-year-long career, as well as an examination of 15 mysteries and crime dramas that Curtis produced, co-wrote, and/or directed, including Dead of Night: A Darkness at Blaisedon; Melvin Purvis, G-Man; The Kansas City Massacre; The Great Ice Rip-Off; Come Die with Me; and the UFO miniseries Intruders. Also included is information about more than 15 Dan Curtis productions that were planned but never produced. House of Dan Curtis features 73 photographs and a foreword by John Karlen, the Emmy Award-winning actor who co-starred on Dark Shadows and in 13 other projects from the production house of Dan Curtis.

This dissertation concludes with a consideration of Dan Curtis's importance to participatory fan culture while also documenting the director's esteemed place within the larger canvas of popular American literature and film.