Books - Gregory William Mank

Author (non-Fiction):

Of Mice and Men: Mental Enfeeblement, Racism, and Mercy-Killing in 1939 Hollywood – BearManor Media, 2022
Angels and Ministers of Grace Defend Us! More Dark Alleys of Classic Horror Cinema – McFarland Publishers, 2022
“One Man Crazy!” The Life and Death of Colin Clive – Midnight Marquee Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2018  
Laird Cregar: A Hollywood Tragedy – McFarland Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2018
The Very Witching Time of Night: Dark Alleys of Classic Horror Cinema – McFarland Publishers, 2014
Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story of a Haunting Collaboration – McFarland, 2009
Hollywood’s Hellfire Club: The Misadventures of John Barrymore, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn and the Bundy Drive Boys – Feral House Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2007
Women in Horror Films, 1940s - McFarland Publishers, 1999
Women in Horror Films, 1930s - McFarland Publishers, 1999
Hollywood’s Maddest Doctors - Midnight Marquee Press,1998
Hollywood Cauldron – 13 Classic Horror Films – McFarland Publishers, 1994
Karloff and Lugosi: The Story of a Haunting Collaboration – McFarland Publishers, 1990
The Hollywood Hissables - Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, New Jersey, 1989
It’s Alive! The Classic Cinema Saga of Frankenstein - A.S. Barnes, San Diego, California,1981

Co-Author (non-Fiction): 

John Carradine: The Films (with Tom Weaver) - McFarland Publishers, 1999
Dwight Frye’s Last Laugh (with James Coughlin and Dwight D. Frye) - Midnight Marquee Press, 1997
The Best of MGM (with James Robert Parish) - Arlington House Publishers, New Rochelle, New York, 1981 
The Hollywood Reliables (with James Robert Parish) - Arlington House, 1981
The Hollywood Beauties (with James Robert Parish and Don Stanke) - Arlington House, 1978
The Funsters (with James Robert Parish and William T. Leonard) - Arlington House, 1976

Contributor (non-Fiction):

The Art of Pulp Horror: An Illustrated History (Stephen Jones, Editor) – Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, Milwaukee, WI, 2020  
Son of Dracula: Scripts From the Crypt Collection #9 (Gary D. Rhodes and Tom Weaver, Authors) - BearManor Media, Albany, Georgia, 2019
The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History (Stephen Jones, Editor) – Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, Milwaukee, WI, 2015  
Bride of the Gorilla: Scripts From the Crypt Collection #3 (Tom Weaver, Author) - BearManor Media, Albany, Georgia, 2015
Edgar G. Ulmer: Essays on the King of the B’s (Bernard Herzogenrath, Editor) – McFarland, 2009
Shock! Theater: An Illustrated History (Jim Clattterbaugh, Editor) – Monsters from the Vault Press, 2001 
Dracula: The First Hundred Years (Bob Madison, Editor) - Midnight Marquee Press, 1997
Boris Karloff (Gary & Sue Svehla, Editors) - Midnight Marquee Press, 1996
Bela Lugosi (Gary & Sue Svehla, Editors) - Midnight Marquee Press, 1996
The Real Stars No.3 (Leonard Maltin, Editor) - Popular Library, New York, 1979
Magill’s Survey of Cinema (Frank Magill, Editor) - Salem Press, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,1979

In addition, I wrote the Production Histories for the “MagicImage Filmbooks Series,” published 1989 – 1999, licensed by Universal Studios, California to accompany the published scripts for these films:


Frankenstein – 1931
The Mummy – 1931
Bride of Frankenstein – 1935
Son of Frankenstein – 1939
The Wolf Man – 1941
The Ghost of Frankenstein – 1942
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man - 1943
House of Frankenstein – 1944
The Mummy’s Curse – 1944
House of Dracula – 1945
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein - 1948

Also, I wrote the MagicImage biography of actress Carroll Borland for its Countess Dracula (1994) book.

More recently, additional titles in the "MagicImage Filmbooks Series" have been published by BearManor Media, Albany, Georgia. I wrote the Production Histories for:

  • The Invisible Man - 1933 (published 2012)
  • The Black Cat - 1934 (published 2015)

Author (Fiction):

Platinum Widow: Who Killed Jean Harlow's Husband? – BearManor Media, 2023
Frankenstein’s Witch: St. Lizzie, Pray For Us: A Porter Down Hollywood Mystery – BearManor Media, 2022

Contributor (Fiction):

“Elizabeth” in Chillers: Tales Inspired by Classic Horror Films (compiled by Brad Braddock), Midnight Marquee Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2019
“Happy Birthday, Countess” in Bela Lugosi: The Monogramthology (compiled by Brad Braddock), Akcane Shadows Press, 2019