This series presents a unique and masterly survey of the greatest achievements in the history of art from the medieval era to the post-impressionist world. This authoritative and thought-provoking series employs powerful graphic images to entertain and inform the student and the art lover. The collection also features expert commentary and analyses from leading authorities, art historians and scholars, new location footage and re-creations.

Vampyr is an early vampire horror classic. Sophisticated approach to the supernatural told in a slow dreamlike style through inference and suggestion. In The Mascot, an animated film using puppets, a toy dog comes to life. "Pursuing its poor owner's dream of a nice fresh orange, the puppy stumbles into a netherworld bacchanal hosted by the Devil himself, with a menagerie of guests worthy of Hieronymus Bosch"--Container.

A vacationing young lady meets, falls in love with, and marries handsome and wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. He takes his new bride home to his estate, Manderley. But the new Mrs. de Winter finds her married life dominated by the sinister, almost spectral influence of Maxim's late wife, Rebecca, who still rules from beyond the grave.

In the town of Kingsbridge during the middle of the twelfth century, the lives of those who are working to build the most amazing Gothic cathedral in the world become entwined through their ambitions, loves, and tribulations. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age.