2009/03/18 by Richard Freeman · 1 citation
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One reason why mummy films suffer in comparison to other films of the classic horror genre is that they have, as Kim Newman describes it, no "foundation text" (Newman 225). The other famous monsters either have a literary source beginning with Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and ending with Leroux's Phantom of the Opera in 1911, or they have a mythical origin such as the vampire or werewolf.