Horror films

Scope and Contents This collection includes papers, articles, audiovisual materials, and published works relating to horror writer John Russo. John Russo helped to pioneer the popularization of the “zombie” subgenre of horror into popular culture alongside the late George Romero through writing Night of the Living Dead in 1968. Russo is a graduate of West Virginia University and was born in Clarion, Pennsylvania. This collection details his 50+ year career,...

Scope and Contents Papers of Robert Tinnell, a West Virginia director, producer, and writer of horror films and related genres. Collection includes Tinnell's produced and unproduced screenplays, storyboards and related papers, short stories, newspaper articles, magazines and graphic novels, sketches, and miscellaneous notes and papers. The screenplays, which comprise much of the collection, were mainly written in the 1980s and 1990s. Tinnell's graphic novels include Sight...