Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder; no rights have been transferred to WVU. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.

Conditions Governing Access

No special access restriction applies.

Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Robert Tinnell Papers, A&M 4566, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Tinnell, Robert.

Scope and Contents

Papers of Robert Tinnell, a West Virginia director, producer, and writer of horror films and related genres. Collection includes Tinnell's produced and unproduced screenplays, storyboards and related papers, short stories, newspaper articles, magazines and graphic novels, sketches, and miscellaneous notes and papers. The screenplays, which comprise much of the collection, were mainly written in the 1980s and 1990s. Tinnell's graphic novels include Sight Unseen (Box 2), The Black Forest (Box 2), and The Wicked West (Box 1).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Horror comics
• Horror films
• Motion picture producers and directors
• Screenplays
• Tinnell, Robert
• West Virginia - Writers.