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Chronicles of Terror: Silent Screams by Steve Haberman Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2003 ISBN-10: 1-887664-39-4 / 1887664394 ISBN-13: 978-1-887664-39-4 / 9781887664394 By the end of the 1920s, sound in films was firmly established as a commercial necessity. With the death of Lon Chaney in 1930, America’s foremost apostle of the weird and morbid in cinema was gone. In Germany, financial collapse and frightening political upheavals drove filmmakers to abandon the su |