Horror Studies Archive in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

What do you do when the family of famous and locally loved horror director George Romero offers to donate 100 boxes of manuscripts, letters, marketing and other rare materials to your university? First, obviously, you say yes, and then you set about creating the world's first and only center for the academic study of the horror genre. Romero was no stranger to Pittsburgh - he shot nearly a dozen films in the area including his zombie classics including Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), and Day of the Dead (1985). But the archival material his family donated (from these

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