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London After Midnight: The Lost Film
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For decades, the mystique of Lon Chaney's 1927 mystery-thriller,
London After Midnight, has pondered the minds of horror buffs,
silent film enthusiasts and film collectors alike. Before Dracula
(1931), before Mark of the Vampire (1935), London After Midnight
was America&#8217sfirst cinematic delve into the notion of
vampirism by incorporating elements of author Bram
Stoker&#8217soriginal novel (Dracula) while careful to sidestep the

outright supernatural, as was the style for American
&#8220horor&#8221films of the 1920s. From its production, to its
mysterious disappearance in the 1960s, and now its endearment
having bled through into the 21st century, the hypnotic lure of
London After Midnight has elevated it to becoming the most soughtafter
of lost films in silent cinema history. With countless vehement
searches in archives and collections across the globe, no such print
has yet surfaced. In its wake, a series of publications and articles
have sought to shed light on the mysterious film title, each
contributing a unique leading perspective in addressing the many
questions and uncertainties surrounding it a lost masterpiece? or a
contemporary flop? Now, historian Daniel Titley brings us the very
latest written and compiled compendium in London After Midnight:
The Lost Film. Containing within its Gothic exterior, a treasure trove
of newly-unearthed finds ranging from the fascinating to the
impossible, this heavy-knit milestone book presents, most-notably,
newly-found nitrate remnants from the actual ill-fated film itself,
having laid dormant for years and are finally brought into the light,
and scholarly perspective for the very first time, all richly-illustrated
and presented in this new colossal coffee table volume of over 420
pages dripping with a wide gallery of never-before-seen materials
from stills, to rare lost newly-translated texts, to the early
production documents, posters and press-books to name a few. Mr.
Titley has meticulously crafted in-depth revelatory dissertations for
each chapter exploring the film&#8217slong-standing legacy: from
production, distribution and original critical reception, to even
delving further into the fuller unknown details surrounding the
strange case of Robert Williams who was said to have committed a
murder after having witnessed the film upon its release in England.
The study also finally laments the often-blurred details of when and
exactly how London After Midnight became suddenly lost to future
generations. Ultimately, London After Midnight: The Lost Film is a
book that is sure to rejuvenate belief in hopefuls and confound
naysayers alike, and thus keeping the vault door slightly ajar for any
new potential discovery.