"Perhaps all the best books," wrote Robert Westall in Signal, "start by being written for only one child, and that child very close to you. They start when the child-within-the-author turns to the real child and says, 'Come away with me and I will show y...

If Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" was the film that opened the West to Japanese cinema, Kenzo Mizoguchi's "Ugetsu Monogatari" (1954) was the film that cemented its standing. One reason is that it's so unlike anything in Western cinema. Literally haunting, it's a ghost story set...

Teresa M. McAleavy, Record Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-13-1992 HAUNTED HOUSES AND OTHER HORRORS By Teresa M. McAleavy, Record Staff Writer Date: 03-13-1992, Friday Section: LIFESTYLE / PREVIEWS Edition: All Editions -- 5 Star, 4 Star, 3 Star, 2 Star,...