Books

Profondo Thrilling,
Dario Argento, 1975 Argento’s personal view on horror.

Dario Argento:Il Brivido, Il Sangue, Il Thrilling, Fabio Giovannini, Dedalo, Bari, 1986
A book about Argento.

Re/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films, Publishers/Editors: Andrea Juno & V. Vale, 1986
Great book on cult films. In a section called Film Personalities, by Jim Morton, there is a few paragraphs on Argento calling him “the most talented of the recent crop of Italian horror directors. He even says that Inferno is one of the closest film interpretation of a dream (or nightmare) in the history of cinema.

The Deep Red Horror Handbook, edited by Chas. Balun, 1989
The first chapter (22 pages) is dedicated to Argento only, whereas the other chapters include related foreign and domestic horror flicks.

Umori Maligni, by Francesco Costa, 1990
An Italian book that is a career retrospective essay. There is a filmography at the back, and it’s illustrated with some black and white stills.

Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, by Maitland McDonagh, 1991
The book is adapted from McDonagh’s master’s thesis. The book breaks down Argento’s movies from The Bird With the Crystal Plumage to Trauma. It also contains an interview with Argento, a filmography and a biblography.

Dario Argento: il suo cinema i suoi personaggi i suoi miti, Luigi Cozzi, Fanucci, Roma 1991
Includes an essay about Argento, titled L’occhio nella lama, by Fabio Giovannini.

Cut! Horror Writers On Horror Film, Opera of Violence: The Films of Dario Argento, by Douglas E. Winter, 19??
Twenty-one page overview of Argento’s career up to Two Evil Eyes.

The Fearmakers: The Screen’s Directorial Masters of Suspense and Terror, by John McCarty, 1994
This book contains twenty chapters about twenty different directors. There is ten pages on Argento, covering The Bird With the Crystal Plumage to Trauma. It also contains a filmography.

Serial Killer – I grandi assassini nella storia del cinema, by Fabio Giovannini, Datanews, Roma, 1994
This book includes a chapter on Argento.

Shock Masters of the Cinema, by Loris Curci 1996
Overview of horror with interviews of Argento, George Romero, Sergio Stivaletti and others.

Spaghetti Nightmares, by Luca M. Palmerini and Gaetano Mistretta, 1996
Overview of Italian horror with interviews and filmographies of Argento, his brother Claudio, Stefania Casini, Mimsy Farmer, Daria Nicolodi, Tom Savini and others.

La sindrome, Dario Argento, 1996
Novelisation of The Stendhal Syndrome.

Mondo Argento, by Alan Jones, 1996
The book breaks down Argento’s movies from The Bird With the Crystal Plumage to The Stendhal Syndrome. It also contains an interview with Argento, a filmography, a biblography and lots of color and black and white pictures.

Nightmare Movies, by Kim Newman, 19??
The book is a study of post-1968 horror films. The author claims that Inferno is Argento’s masterpiece.

Terrore Profondo, a cura di Dario Argento Newton Compton, Roma, 1997
Novelisations of SuspiriaInfernoPhenomena La porta sul buio Demoni and OperaOpera is written by Ivo Scanner (Fabio Giovannini).

Deep Red Diva, by John Martin and Caroline Vie, 1997
The book contains a profile, interview and filmography of Daria Nicolodi, and has reference of Dario.

Euro-Trash Ad-Mat Apocalypse, by John Martin, 1997
I am very disapointed with this. I paid $13 sight unseen for this which is nothing more that 8 xeroxed pages (badly done) folded in half of various European film posters. It sounded great when I ordered it. Does contain some posters of Dario’s films.

Inferno Italia: The Definitive Guide To The Italian Horror Film , by Louis Paul, 1998
The book contains extensive profiles, and filmographies of the ten most influential directors of Italian horror films (Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Mario Bava, Ruggero Deodato, Lucio Fulci, Umberto Lenzi, Antonio Margheritti, Aristede Massaccesi (Joe D’Amato), Bruno Mattei & Michele Soavi).

Dario Argento, by Alan Jones, 2016
From Once Upon a Time in the West to Dracula 3D this book covers it all. Interviews with Asia Argento, Claudio Argento, Luigi Cozzi, Jessica Harper, Udo Kier, Daria Nicolodi, Tom Savini and more. Over 200 color pages.