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...[menehune]], Martha Beckwith in her still-classic work Hawaiian Mythology (1940) described the nawao as being a race of wild people who fed upon bananas in

In 1940 Alfred Sherwood Romer and Llewellyn Price reviewed and detailed every known

*[[The Mummy's Hand]], a 1940 movie starring Tom Tyler as Kharis

...An Informal History of the Chicago Underworld. New York: Alfred A. Knoff, 1940. ISBN 0875805345

...of the Bears of Northeastern Asia", by Ernst Schwarz Journal of Mammalogy 1940 American Society of Mammalogists.

* Beckwith, Martha, ''Hawaiian Mythology'', 1940, as reprinted by the University of Hawaii Press, 1970; available free onlin

'''Patrick Kearney''' (born in 1940) is an American [[serial killer]] who preyed on young men in California dur

...n detail in [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s revision of Zealia Bishop's "The Mound" (1940), in which it is discovered by the 16th century Spanish Conquistador [[Cthu

* ''Black Friday'' (1940) * ''The Invisible Man Returns'' (1940)

'''George Andrew Romero''' (born 4 February, 1940) is an American director, writer, editor and actor. He is best known for hi

...born to Augusta T. Lehrke (1878–1945) and George P. Gein (1873–1940) on August 27, 1906, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His parents, both natives of By the time George Gein died in 1940, Henry had begun to reject Augusta's view of the world. He had even taken t

...rrowed the entity for his revision story "The Mound" ([[1940_in_literature|1940]]). In 1975 he made a cameo in [[The Golden Apple]], by [[Robert Shea]] a ...vecraft|first=Howard P.|coauthors=Zealia Bishop|chapter=The Mound|origyear=1940|pages=|title=The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions|editor=S.T. Joshi

# ^ Lambert, Richard Stanton (1940). Ariel and All His Quality: An Impression of the BBC from Within. Victor G

...end. Taken from the book “The Most Haunted House in England”, Harry Price, 1940.]] ...ed the rights to a screenplay by Richard Potter which was based on Price's 1940 book about Borley The Most Haunted House In England.

...ich Lovecraft appropriated for his revision of Zelia Bishop's "The Mound" (1940). Lovecraft effectively connected Smith's creation to his story-cycle by pl

...movie)|The Mummy]]" starring [[Boris Karloff]] as Imhotep; four subsequent 1940's [[Universal Studios]] mummy films which featured a mummy named Kharis, wh

Between 1940 and 1956, a serial bomber terrorized New York City by planting bombs in pub

...lins.html] although it is known to have been in circulation since at least 1940. [http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/gremlins.htm] The author of the first artic

...illain with a disturbing clown-like appearance. Appeared in ''Batman #1'' (1940). Three decades before [[John Wayne Gacey]].

Sylvia Townsend Warner's 1940 short story "The Phoenix" satirized the exploitation of nature using a phoe