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First UK edition trade (large sized) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. In good condition for its age. Creasing to front and rear covers. Reading creases to spine. Blemish on half title – looks as though a sticker might have been afixed at some time which has left a residue. Blue mark approx 2cm wide across top edge of pages not affecting faces – possibly a remainder mark? “The horror film’s two great preoccupations, sex and death, have allowed this commercially successful but critically despised genre to chronicle, in unique fashion, the evolution of contemporary sexual attitudes and the progression of our deepest sexual fears. David Hogan has compiled the first examination of international horror – cinema’s preoccupation with sexuality as expressed through its major recurring themes – Beauty and the Beast, the explicit eroticism of the vampire, the horror of duality, the hidden sexual criminal – and their infinite variations. Dark Romance examines the whole range and history of the horror film, from the silent era to the present day (1988 in this case) and describes over 500 films.” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH