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The Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Tingler, the Mole Peoplethey stalked and oozed into audiences minds during the era that followed Boris Karloffs Frankenstein and preceded terrors like Freddy Krueger and Chucky pulls off the masks and wipes away the slime to reveal how the monsters that frightened audiences in the 1950s and 1960sand the movies they crawled and staggered throughreflected fundamental changes in the film industry. Providing the first economic history of the horror film, Kevin Heffernan shows how the production, distribution, and exhibition of horror movies changed as the studio era gave way to the conglomeration of New Hollywood.