One of the possible release dates for Le Manoir du Diable in 1896. Pioneering French filmmaker Georges Méliès makes the first known horror film also known as The House of the Devil or The Haunted Castle. The silent, three-minute film was thought lost for decades until a copy was found in New Zealand in 1988.
This Day in Halloween: One of the possible release dates for Georges Méliès' "Le Manoir du Diable" -- a.k.a the first horror film -- in 1896. / Illustration by Madison Kemp