Elisabeth Lutyens - The Golden Age Of Horror Vol. 1 (Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors / The Skull / Paranoiac) (CD) Pre-Order Deadline July 3/26 Release Date August 11/26

PARANOIAC, as well as the other two films spotlighted on this album, were all directed by Freddie Francis, an accomplished cinematographer who pioneered the overall look of British horror. Released in 1963, PARANOIAC tells the story of a pair of dysfunctional siblings desperately awaiting an inheritance. Their scheme is complicated by the sudden return of a brother long thought to have died by suicide. Released in 1965, DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS is the first film from Amicus Productions to feature an anthology of short story segments penned by producer Milton Subotsky. Similar in spirit to the lurid tales featured in EC Comics titles, Subotsky would later officially adapt material from those very magazines into subsequent films. Peter Cushing stars as a mysterious fortune teller who offers to predict the futures of his five fellow train passengers, which include Christopher Lee and Donald Sutherland. Also released in 1965, THE SKULL is a psychological suspense film adapted by Subotsky from a story by acclaimed fiction writer Robert Bloch, best known as the author of the novel PSYCHO. Once again, the ever dependable Peter Cushing leads as a collector of esoterica, who comes in possession of the remains of the infamous Marquis De Sade. The long-deceased blasphemer's skull exudes a power on all who come into contact with it, delivering hallucinations that result in madness and death. Elisabeth Lutyens began by learning the violin at the age of eight, eventually receiving more extensive schooling at the Ecole Normal de Musique in Paris and The Royal College of Music. Several other composers of note, such as Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Aaron Copeland, and rock guitar virtuoso Frank Zappa, often used Serialism in their work.