During the later 1950s, Great Britain emerged as a producer of horror films.

Among its most expensive flops were Great Balls of Fire !, starring Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis and Winona Ryder as his teenage bride ; She-Devil, a domestic horror comedy featuring Meryl Streep and Roseanne Arnold ; and Valmont, a remake of Les Liaisons dangereuses, an eighteenth-century novel and twentieth-century play that already had been adapted and released as Dangerous Liaisons just a few months earlier.

During 1980, Hammer Film Productions filmed a small series of horror films for television, many of them filmed in and around Great Missenden.

Still, as G. R. Thomson writes in his Introduction to Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe 36, " the tale has long been hailed as a masterpiece of Gothic horror ; it is also a masterpiece of dramatic irony and structural symbolism.

Films featured range chronologically from The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) to Rocky IV ( 1985 ), and range in subject from light comedies to dramas and horror films.

SPT owns 40 % of cable channel GSN ( with DirecTV ), owner of Crackle, a partner in FEARnet ; the horror / thriller website and VOD service ( with Lions Gate Entertainment and Comcast ), and jointly owns the rights to most of the post-1947 Bob Hope film library such as My Favorite Brunette, The Lemon Drop Kid, The Seven Little Foys, The Great Lover, and Son of Paleface with FremantleMedia.

At the time of release, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies was the second longest titled film in the horror genre ( Roger Corman's The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent being the first ).

He recorded his mother's horror in his autobiography: “ You know you are the Great Hope of the Family … if you do not like Service you can do something else … there are plenty of things Steady Young Men can do when they can write and read as you can … I shall name it to no one for I am ashamed to think of it ...

She starred in the classic horror film Black Christmas in 1974 and The Great Waldo Pepper opposite Robert Redford in 1975.

He recorded the experiences and horror he witnessed during the six weeks he spent in South Africa in Honorary White ( The Bodley Head, Ltd. Great Britain 1975 ).

Great White ( a. k. a. The Last Shark ) is a 1981 Italian horror film directed by Enzo G. Castellari and starring James Franciscus and Vic Morrow.

( The Vietnam War decreases popularity of action, the Space Race increases the popularity of science fiction, World War II decreases the popularity of horror, the post-war period increases the popularity of horror, and the Great Depression increases the popularity of comedy.

There are various claims, from romantic stories that they were used by certain legendary lovers of the Great Duchy of Lithuania ( Barbora Radvilaitė and Žygimantas Augustas ) to meet each other secretly, to some horror stories, to the more realistic explanations.

The Great Famine or An Gorta Mór as it has become known, of 1845 had a devastating effect on Ireland, and Ballygar didn ’ t escape the horror that resulted from the failure of the main food crop, the potato, throughout the years of 1845 to 1849.

The name " Souls at Zero " was taken from a chapter in the book The Great and Secret Show by horror writer Clive Barker.

As with Chronicle, The List was compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great, and both the List and the Chronicle are influenced by the desire of their writers to use a single line of descent to trace the lineage of the Kings of Wessex through Cerdic to Gewis, a descendant of Woden and the legendary ancestor of the West Saxons.

It is mentioned by various writers from the fourth century onwards, notably by Pope Gregory the Great, to whose influence may ultimately be due the frequent occurrence of it in Bibles written in England ; for it is commoner in English Bibles than in others.

The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ), Bleak House ( 1854 ) ( Mighall 2003 ) and Great Expectations ( 1860 – 61 ).

Godwin's political views were diverse and do not perfectly agree with any of the ideologies that claim his influence ; writers of the Socialist Standard, organ of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, consider Godwin both an individualist and a communist ; anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard did not regard Godwin as being in the individualist camp at all, referring to him as the " founder of communist anarchism "; and historian Albert Weisbord considers him an individualist anarchist without reservation.

( North American Native writers have also translated the word for God as the Great Mystery or as the Sacred Other ) This concept is referred to by many as the Great Spirit.

Some historians and writers ( like German Dietrich Schwanitz ) draw parallels between Stalinism and the economic policy of Tsar Peter the Great, although Schwanitz in particular views Stalin as " a monstrous reincarnation " of him.

Similarities to the works of other writers who faced the Great War are seen in The Hobbit, including portraying warfare as anti-pastoral: in " The Desolation of Smaug ", both the area under the influence of Smaug before his demise and the setting for The Battle of the Five Armies later are described as barren, damaged landscapes.

Anticipating the arrangement of the British Commonwealth, by 1774 American writers such as Samuel Adams, James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson were arguing that Parliament was the legislature of Great Britain only, and that the colonies, which had their own legislatures, were connected to the rest of the empire only through their allegiance to the Crown.

The most prolific writers there were collectively referred to as the Five Great Masters of the Northern School ( 北派五大家 ) -- Huanzhu Louzhu ( 還珠樓主 ), who wrote The Swordspeople from Shu Mountains ( 蜀山剑侠传 )); Bai Yu, who wrote Twelve Coin Darts ( 十二钱镖 ); Wang Dulu, who wrote The Crane-Iron Pentalogy ( 鹤铁五部作 ); Zheng Zhengyin ( 郑证因 ), who wrote The King of Eagle Claws ( 鹰爪王 ); and Zhu Zhenmu ( 朱贞木 ), who wrote The Seven-Killing Stele ( 七杀碑 ).

Continental writers of Arthurian romances were often puzzled by the internal geography of Great Britain ; thus it is that the author French Prose Tristan appears to place Léonois contiguous, by land, to Cornwall.

The three triumphs awarded Pompeius Magnus (" Pompey the Great ") were thoroughly documented, not least because they were controversial to their contemporaries and to later writers.

Using the remainder of the Rockefeller funds, Williams moved to New Orleans in 1939 to write for the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ), a federally funded program begun by President Franklin D. Roosevelt which was created to put people back to work and helped many artists, musicians and writers survive during the Great Depression.

Another rule established by the show's writers mandated Bob's return to prison at the end of each episode, although this pattern was abandoned in later episodes like " The Great Louse Detective " and " The Italian Bob ".

Gibson was one of the founders of the so-called ” Dymock Poets ”, a community of writers who settled briefly, before the outbreak of the Great War, in the village of Dymock, in north Gloucestershire.

The influence of Peter I and debates over the function and form of literature as it related to the Russian language in the first half of the 19th century set a stylistic precedent for the writers during the reign of Catherine the Great in the second half of the century.

Some writers hold that Dumfries flourished as a place of distinction during the Roman occupation of North Great Britain.

Plutarch, Life of Alexander 3 ), that Hegesias is to be classed among the writers of lives of Alexander the Great.

Mansfield left for Great Britain when she was 19 where she encountered Modernist writers such as D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf with whom she became close friends.

During the Great Depression, Fortune developed a reputation for its social conscience, for Walker Evans and Margaret Bourke-White's color photographs, and for a team of writers including James Agee, Archibald MacLeish, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Alfred Kazin, hired specifically for their writing abilities.

Both Xenophon ( Cyropaedia, 7. 5. 28-30 ) and Herodotus ( The Histories, 1. 191 ) recount the fall of Babylon to Cyrus the Great, yet neither of these writers give the name of the king of Babylon.

American composer and author Alec Wilder wrote of Carmichael in his sweeping " American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900 – 1950 " that he was the " most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented " of the hundreds of writers composing pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.

He was called " Tigranes the Great " by many Western historians and writers, such as Plutarch.

Among dispensational premillennialists writers, there are those who believe that Christians will be supernaturally summoned to Heaven by Jesus in an event called the Rapture, which occurs before the biblical " Great Tribulation " prophesied in Matthew 24-25 ; Mark 13 and Luke 21.

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

Great Australian players in the early years included batsmen Border, Boon, Taylor and Steve Waugh.

In the United States however, " Amazing Grace " was used extensively during the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century.

The system was used in Russia as late as the early 18th century when Peter the Great replaced it with Arabic numerals.

The early chapters, set in Jerusalem, discuss Jesus ' Resurrection and Great Commission, his Ascension with a prophecy to return, the start of the Twelve Apostles ' ministry, and the Day of Pentecost.

As early as 880, Arnulf had designs on Great Moravia, and had the Frankish bishop Wiching of Nitra interfere with the missionary activities of Methodius, with the aim of preventing any potential for creating a unified Moravian nation.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

This was followed by a second series, Blackadder II ( 1986 ) set during the reign of Elizabeth I, a third series Blackadder the Third ( 1987 ) set during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the reign of George III, and finally Blackadder Goes Forth ( 1989 ) in 1917, set in the trenches of the Great War.

A portrait of Broadway in the early part of the 20th century and " The Great White Way " late at night appeared in " Artist In Manhattan "( 1940 ) written by the painter-writer Jerome Myers:

Other areas damaged during World War II bombing included: in September 1940 two unexploded bombs hit the Edward VII galleries, the King's Library received a direct hit from a high explosive bomb, incendiaries fell on the dome of the Round Reading Room but did little damage ; on the night of 10 to 11 May 1941 several incendiaries fell on the south west corner of the Museum, destroying the book stack and 150, 000 books in the courtyard and the galleries around the top of the Great Staircase – this damage was not fully repaired until the early 1960s.

Britain's willingness, beginning early in 1916, to explore seriously some kind of arrangement with " world Jewry " or " Great Jewry " must be understood in this context.

The Second Great Awakening, a period of religious revival that occurred in the U. S. during the early 1800s, saw the development of a number of unrelated churches.

Christian attitudes to Judaism and to the Jewish people developed from the early years of Christianity, the persecution of Christians in the New Testament, and persisted over the ensuing centuries, driven by numerous factors including theological differences, competition between Church and Synagogue, the Christian drive for converts decreed by the Great Commission, misunderstanding of Jewish beliefs and practices, and a perceived Jewish hostility toward Christians.

These include from the time of the Great Chicago Fire to about 1900, what became known as the Chicago Literary Renaissance in the 1910s and early 1920s, and the period of the Great Depression through the 1940s.

Furthermore, as early Christians ( following the Great Commission ) had to explain their concepts to a new audience which

In Defoe's early life he experienced first-hand some of the most unusual occurrences in English history: in 1665, 70, 000 were killed by the Great Plague of London.

Deng was instrumental in China's economic reconstruction following the Great Leap Forward in the early 1960s.

The Stone-Campbell movement began as two separate threads, each without knowledge of the other, during the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century.

The medieval universities of Western Christendom were well-integrated across all of Western Europe, encouraged freedom of enquiry and produced a great variety of fine scholars and natural philosophers, including Thomas Aquinas of the University of Naples, Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early expositor of a systematic method of scientific experimentation ; and Saint Albert the Great, a pioneer of biological field research The University of Bologne is considered the oldest continually operating university.

The enormous encyclopedic work in China of the Four Great Books of Song, compiled by the 11th century AD during the early Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ), was a massive literary undertaking for the time.

The Great Hall in the early 1900s.

An early example of espionage literature is Kim by the English novelist Rudyard Kipling, with a description of the training of an intelligence agent in the Great Game between the UK and Russia in 19th century Central Asia.

The The Great Train Robbery was ground-breaking and is still shown in film schools today as an example of early editing form.

In Great Britain's Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force these aircraft were referred to as " scouts " into the early 1920s.