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Danel Olson (b. 1965) is a professor of Gothic fiction and film at Lone Star College in Houston. Creator of the World Fantasy Award and Shirley Jackson Award-winning fiction series Exotic Gothic (2007-2013), he also won a World Fantasy Award for editing the Patrick McGrath collection Writing Madness (Centipede, 2017). E earned his PhD at University of Stirling, Scotland. His latest books are 9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City’s Terrorism Novels (Lexington, 2021), and Gothic War on Terror: Killing, Haunting, and PTSD in American Film, Fiction, Comics, and Video Games (Palgrave, 2023).

1965) is a professor of Gothic fiction and film at Lone Star College in Houston. Creator of the World Fantasy Award and Shirley Jackson Award-winning fiction series Exotic Gothic (2007-2013), he also won a World Fantasy Award for editing the Patrick McGrath collection Writing Madness (Centipede, 2017). He earned his PhD at University of Stirling, Scotland.

1965) is a professor of Gothic fiction and film at Lone Star College in Houston. He earned his PhD at University of Stirling, Scotland. Creator of the World Fantasy Award and Shirley Jackson Award-winning fiction series Exotic Gothic (2007-2013), he also won a World Fantasy Award for editing the Patrick McGrath collection Writing Madness (Centipede, 2017).

Before Pacific Rim and Crimson Peak, Guillermo del Toro wrote, produced, and directed two films held by secrets of the past, The Devil's Backbone (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Both films garnered international acclaim, with the second breaking box-office records for a Spanish feature and winning three Oscars oth films rank among the best films of the decade.

For the first time, editor Danel Olson approaches these movies as cinematic siblings whose quests are bound together n addition to interviews, never-before-seen photographs, and concept drawings, international scholars offer ten essays on the themes of philosophy, sex, metaphor, feminism, fascism, music, fantasy, ghosts, and history in the films, as well as del Toro's literary and artistic influences Sharing reflections on making the movies are fourteen of the actors and four key members of the crew.

El Toro himself muses on the struggle to follow his film-dreams, Ivana Baquero (Ofelia) contemplates the deeper lessons of magic, and Fernando Tielve (Carlos) portrays the supernatural reality of being inside del Toro's art Drawings and sketches from the film are included inside, and the cover image of the faun is based on the brilliant sculpture work of Max Roudaut hrough stories and sources unavailable until now, this volume brings scholars, cinephiles, and collectors closer to the most impassioned screen-alchemist of our time Del Toro emerges as a man of multitudes: a “cinematic creator and father,” a “madman,” a “crazy genius,” a “very naughty boy,” a “storytelling monster,” and “the one who changed my life forever.” This is an indispensable investigation of two of the early 21st century's key films.

Edition Details

• Four color printing throughout on coated stock.
• New introduction by Guillermo del Toro.
• New preface by Ivana Baquero (Ofelia).
• New afterword by Fernando Tielve (Carlos).
• New interviews with Guillermo del Toro, Ivana Baquero, and other cast and crew members.
• Loaded with color stills and individual frame enlargements from the film.

External Links

• Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone: Studies in the Horror Film. Centipede Press page for Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone: Studies in the Horror Film
• Edited by Danel Olson (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Edited by Danel Olson