This 1946 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s short story adds well over an hour of new material to the original tale. The reason is, while director Robert Siodmak, star Burt Lancaster, and an outstanding supporting cast are faithful to Hemingway’s work, his story only takes up about 15 minutes of screen time. Burt Lancaster plays the doomed man sought by hired guns in a small town. Hemingway’s bruisingly concise dialogue makes an early sequence set in a diner quite unnerving, but after the killers dispense with their prey, Siodmak turns to an insurance investigator (Edmond O’Brien) who looks into the reasons behind the murder. An exemplary film noir (complete with a fickle femme fatale played by Ava Gardner), The Killers is all mood and fatalism.–Tom Keogh

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This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Machen, as well as some lesser known yet superbly chilling tales from the era. The introduction explores the many reasons for the Gothic revival, and how it spoke to the anxieties of the moment.

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The stories in this collection combine realism and fantasy. The themes are familiar from Gaskell’s novels, but their treatment is revealingly different, ranging from ghost stories and comic fantasy, to a realistic tale of 17th-century witch trials.

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Thousands of pages of classic Gothic are collected in this large Kindle collection. An active table of contents is included to make it easy to navigate to the work you are looking for.

Authors and works include:

Ann Radcliffe
The Italian

Bram Stoker
Dracula
The Lair of the White Worm

Charles Brockden Brown
Wieland

Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Villette

Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Tell-Tale Heart

Edith Wharton
Afterward

Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights

Frederick Marryat
The Phantom Ship

Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera

Henry James
The Turn of the Screw

John Polidori
The Vampyre

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein

Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Monk

Nathaniel Hawthorne
House of the Seven Gables
The Minister’s Black Veil
Young Goodman Brown

Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Theophile Gautier
The Mummy’s Foot

Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Wolverine, fan favourite of the X-Men universe in both comic books and film, gets his own movie vehicle with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a tale that reaches way, way back into the hairy mutant’s story. Somewhere in the wilds of northwest Canada in the early 1800s, two boys grow up amid violence: half-brothers with very special powers. Eventually they will become the near-indestructible warriors (and victims of a super-secret government program) known as Wolverine and Sabretooth, played respectively by Hugh Jackman (returning to his role) and Liev Schreiber (new to the scene). It helps enormously to have Schreiber, an actor of brawny skills, as the showiest villain; the guy can put genuine menace into a vocal inflection or a shift of the eyes. Danny Huston is the sinister government operative whose experiments keep pulling Wolverine back in, Lynn Collins is the woman who shares a peaceful Canadian co-existence with our hero when he tries to drop out of the program, and Ryan Reynolds adds needed humour, at least for a while.

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Wolverine, fan favourite of the X-Men universe in both comic books and film, gets his own movie vehicle with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a tale that reaches way, way back into the hairy mutant’s story. Somewhere in the wilds of northwest Canada in the early 1800s, two boys grow up amid violence: half-brothers with very special powers. Eventually they will become the near-indestructible warriors (and victims of a super-secret government program) known as Wolverine and Sabretooth, played respectively by Hugh Jackman (returning to his role) and Liev Schreiber (new to the scene). It helps enormously to have Schreiber, an actor of brawny skills, as the showiest villain; the guy can put genuine menace into a vocal inflection or a shift of the eyes. Danny Huston is the sinister government operative whose experiments keep pulling Wolverine back in, Lynn Collins is the woman who shares a peaceful Canadian co-existence with our hero when he tries to drop out of the program, and Ryan Reynolds adds needed humour, at least for a while.

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The Weird Tale Collection, Vol. 1: The Yellow Sign and Others [DVD]

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