David John Skal (June 21, 1952 – January 1, 2024) was an American cultural historian, critic, writer, and on-camera commentator known for his research...

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Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween is a 2002 non-fiction book by David J. Skal. The book talks about the history of Halloween such as exploring its...

Archived from the original on 13 October 2012. Retrieved 4 January 2009. David J. Skal (1990), Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula From Novel to Stage...

Home Video in 1990. MGM/UA then issued a remastered LaserDisc in 1993. David J. Skal, a documentary entitled Freaks: The Sideshow Cinema, and a shorter documentary...

– radically reshaping it in the process." According to biographers David J. Skal and Elias Savada, the tragic event transformed Browning's creative outlook:...

of telepathy, benevolence, and physical beauty. Cultural historian David J. Skal wrote that early stories of Nordic-type aliens may have been partially...

that night: "To-night is mine! To-morrow is yours!" Nina Auerbach and David J. Skal, in the Norton Critical Edition of the text, posit that Stoker thought...

details of Haining's citation also conflict with David J. Skal, so this citation seems unreliable. Skal identifies a similar reference to the word "nosferat"...

different origin periods to the psychological horror film. Historian David J. Skal described The Black Cat (1934) as "being called the first psychological...