Howard Berger is a special make-up effects artist with over 800 feature film credits including Dances With Wolves, Casino, Kill Bill 1 & 2, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Make-up as well as a British Academy Award for Best Achievement in Make-up. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Foreword by Guillermo del Toro • Hall of Fame • What Dreams are Made of • Breaking In • The Seed of Invention • The Monster Club • Featured Creatures • The Gore the Merrier • They're Alive! • Making Faces • To Glue or Not to Glue • Teamwork Makes the Dream Work • Let's Do the Time Warp • Reel Lives • War Stories • Lessons Learned • Afterword by Seth MacFarlane.