The early cinematographic exploration of the uncanny in folklore, religious belief and supposed superstition, but also in gothic and horror literature, covers a whole range of themes that we still encounter in horror cinema today: weird nightmares, haunted houses, wild devils, evil witchcraft and mad scientists. And so are the attempts to deal with the uncanny by religious or scientific means. Almost all the renowned directors of the early cinema of attractions made their contribution: Georges Méliès, Walter R. Booth, Edwin S. Porter, Gaston Velle, Ferdinand Zecca and Segundo de Chomón. Soon this experimental and diverse horror cinema of the early days fades into the background, leaving the stage to the first film adaptations of literary classics such as "Frankenstein" (1910) and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1912), which usher in the triumph of narrative horror cinema.