The Global Archive For Devotees of The Monkey's Paw: Cult Guide

Dir: Károly Lajthay

A girl has frightening visions after visiting an insane asylum where one of the inmates claims to be Drakula and she can not be sure whether they were a nightmare or real.

Dir: F.W. Murnau

In the castle Vogeloed, a few aristocrats are awaiting baroness Safferstätt. But first Count Oetsch invites himself.. Everyone thinks he murdered his brother, baroness Safferstat's first husband, three years ago. So he is rather undesirable. But Oetsch stays; arguing he is not the murderer and will find the real one...

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Haunted Castle perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Jan S. Kolár

Richard Bor brings his neighbor, the landowner Drazicky, an old book. The latter tries in vain to persuade his wife Dagmar to leave. In the book Drazicky finds the story of the Mystery of the Black Tower and he falls asleep. He goes into the tower and finds an alchemist's laboratory and the body of a man holding instructions describing how he can be revived. Drazicky successfully carries out the experiment and finds out that the man is his ancestor Jesek Drazicky who lived during the time of Rudolf II. He had become the apprentice of the alchemist Borro who had entrusted him with the mystery of the elixir of life.

Dir: Joe May

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Arrival from the Darkness perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Jacques Feyder

Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis.

Dir: Gustav Adolf Olsen

In the most beautiful Telemark a young boy grown up on a rich farm wanting to be a fiddle player like the son at the poorer neighboring farm, to his father's dislike. One day the father is found dead.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Die Herrin der Welt 8. Teil - Die Rache der Maud Fergusson perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Maurice Elvey

Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.

Dir: Joe May

Irene saves Herbert and the two help Princess Savitri flee the palace.

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Missing Husbands perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Dir: Joe May

The unfaithful wife of a cruel Indian prince attempts to escape from his domination.

Dir: Victor Sjöström

On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.