Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

If you want to have some fun with your fellow horror film aficionados, ask them what they’d rate as the single most effective scene for mood and atmosphere in any of the Universal monster movies.
No Death for Me

Post-crypt horror in the ever-homeward Eastertide spirit.
Blackout

The premise, like the ambient air of fatalism, owes as much to film noir as it does horror. A man wakes in a place he can’t remember arriving at, his body bearing the ravages of some misadventure, his memories a dense fog yielding no clues save a lingering sense of grave culpability.
Better Than One

Were you to remark that the 1940s represented a peak in American pop-cultural horror, most people would automatically think you were talking about movies.