Elias Savada to produce 1995's Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood's Master of the Macabre. Dark Carnival was the first book-length biography of Tod Browning, best known for directing Freaks and the 1931 version of Dracula. Writing in the Journal of Popular Film and Television, Martin F. Norden described it as "a compelling, in-depth examination of one of America's first cult film directors". Steven E. Alford of the Houston Chronicle remarked, "Dark Carnival succeeds in resurrecting the reputation of one of Hollywood's long-buried eccentrics." Skal's other major publications include V Is for Vampire: The A to Z Guide to Everything Undead (1996), Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture (1998), Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween (2002), and Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice (2008). Skal also co-edited the 1997 Norton Critical Edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula and compiled the 2001 anthology Vampires: Encounters with the Undead. His biography of Bram Stoker, Something in the Blood, was published in October 2016. Skal regularly contributes film reviews to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Other work Skal has made several appearances in television specials, such as The 100 Scariest Movie Moments and The Perfect Scary Movie. He has produced DVD supplemental documentaries and/or audio commentaries for a number of films, including Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), Freaks (1932), The Mummy (1932), The Invisible Man (1933), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), The Wolf Man (1941), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), and Gods and Monsters (1998). Skal appears in the 2008 documentary film Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon in which he discusses, as an openly gay cultural critic, the cultural impact of iconic gay pornographic film star Jack Wrangler. Filmography The World of Gods and Monsters: A Journey with James Whale (1999) She's Alive! Creating the Bride of Frankenstein (1999) Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed (1999) Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man''' (1999)The Road to Dracula (1999)In Search of History: The Real Dracula (2000)The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked (2000) Now You See Him: The Invisible Man Revealed! (2000)Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Monsters! (2000)Back to the Black Lagoon: A Creature Chronicle (2000)The Universe According to Universal (2002)Carla Laemmle Remembers: An Interview with David J. Skal (2003)Jules Verne & Walt Disney: Explorers of the Imagination (2003)The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster'' (2004)