"With Lon Cheney and Boris Karloff among its characters, this ... love letter to the golden age of horror cinema tells the ... tragic story of Maddy Ulm. It takes readers through her rise from the complicated shadows of Berlin's first experiments with expressionist cinema to the glamorous deserts of Hollywood. For Maddy has a secret, a secret that has given her incredible insight into the soul of horror. A secret that has a terrible price as well"--
"With Lon Cheney and Boris Karloff among its characters, this ... love letter to the golden age of horror cinema tells the ... tragic story of Maddy Ulm. It takes readers through her rise from the complicated shadows of Berlin's first experiments with expressionist cinema to the glamorous deserts of Hollywood. For Maddy has a secret, a secret that has given her incredible insight into the soul of horror. A secret that has a terrible price as well"--