Spanish-speaking horror fans may enjoy Horrormanía: La Enciclopedia de cine de terror, a new book published in Madrid. From the press release... HORRORMANÍA: ENCICLOPEDIA DE CINE DE TERROR (Horrormania: The Encyclopedia of Terror Cinema) Author: José Manuel Serrano Cueto Editor: Alberto Santos (Madrid, Spain, 2007). 480 pages, SRP: 26.50 € (approximately $37.50 US)

Horrormanía is the most complete horror cinema dictionary published in Spanish. The book features more than 2,500 references: actors (Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney, Jr., Paul Naschy, Robert Englund, etc.), directors (John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, Jesús Franco, Dario Argento, James Whale...), musicians (Jerry Goldsmith, Ennio Morricone, Marco Beltrami...), writers (Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Anne Rice...), movies (THE EXORCIST, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, THE BIRDS, THE OTHERS...), critics (David J. Skal, Carlos Aguilar, Danilo Arona...), and magazines (Fangoria, Gorezone, Famous Monsters of Filmland...). Horrormanía includes all epochs and nationalities, with a good sample of Japanese horror cinema: Ishiro Honda, Michiaki Watanabe, Takashi Shimizu, Takashi Shimura, THE RING, GOJIRA, Takashi Miike, Michio Yamamoto, Masao Yonezawa, Kimika Yoshino, Ataru Oikawa, DARK WATER and more. About the author: José Manuel Serrano Cueto is a prestigious Spanish writer specialized in cinema, especially horror and science-fiction. He has published the books Vincent Price: El terror a cara descubierta (Vincent Price: Describing the Face of Terror) and De monstruos y hombres: Los reyes del terror de la Universal (Of Men and Monsters: The Kings of Universal Terror). For more information, contact the publisher at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..