DARK CARNIVAL: SECRET WORLD OF TOD BROWNING Still in Shrinkwrap, Centipede Press

DARK CARNIVAL:<br>THE SECRET WORLD OF TOD BROWNING<br>by David J. Skal and Elias Savada<br>Centipede Press SIGNED and Numbered Hardcover still in publisher's original shrinkwrap.<br>Published by Centipede Press<br>Book is in new unread condition<br>Description<br>EDITION INFORMATION<br>Limited to only 500 numbered copies<br>Four color printing throughout.<br>Dozens of photographs and film stills.<br>Bound in full three-piece cloth.<br>Top-edge stain.<br>Ribbon marker.<br>Each copy signed by David J. Skal, Elias Savada, and David Ho.<br>Book size is 6<br>¾<br>× 10<br>¼<br>inches.<br>376 pages.<br>Published January 2024.<br>SYNOPSIS<br>Critical opinion of director Tod Browning — also known as the “Edgar Allen Poe of cinema” — may have been contentious during his time, but most film buffs could at least agree with critic Richard Watts, Jr.’s view: “His cinematic mind is a creeping torture chamber, a place of darkness, deviousness, and death.” It may sound like admonishment, but this critique is most certainly adulation. For even darkness holds value, even