The Black Cat

A paragon of queer perversity, Edgar G. Ulmer’s unfathomable Universal horror hit gave major stars Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff two of their greatest roles. In the first of many films together, the erstwhile Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster play a pair of intensely bonded frenemies locked in an epic sadomasochistic pas de deux.

Its Secrets, Its Tendrils

A young horror-seeker found his dark pleasures in classic monsters, Salem’s Lot, and the art house—and the search goes on.