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dracula and night of the living dead

Am I right in saying that this is based on the Book 'The Haunting of Hill house'? Its been re done in many forms for the screen, but I think this has to be the best.

Yes, the Shirley Jackson classic!

I have it on my Amazon ish list, but first I want to get hold of gogol's work as I believe a lot of horrors are based on his stories. Especially want to get hold of VIY at some point
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Nikoli Gogol? I've read a collection of his stories, as well as Taras Bulba, and can't recall much horror there... I do faintly recall one about someone freezing to death, I think... haven't read them in a long time. The one work of his that has always stayed with me is "The Nose" - wherein a man's nose takes on a life of its own as a minor government beurocrat. I wish somebody would film that!

The Viy was turned into a little movie called Black Sunday.

Never read that!

I haven't get the chance to read any of those materials but that Nose plot sounds really interesting, deserve an adaptation indeed.

It was, but although Black Sunday is Awsome, VIY is supposedly closer to the original Russian Fairy Tale x

I wouldn't be surprised. Russian fairy tales are usually too offbeat for the screen, which is sad because I love them. I swear I've also read another Gogol ghost story too, but I can't for the life of me remember what antho it was in.