CLASSIC IMAGES #497 - Halloween issue
The new issue of CLASSIC IMAGES has a BLACK CASTLE cover and my article on the making of that Karloff-Chaney 1952 movie -- which I consider the last of the "official Universal Horrors." (The...
View ArticleAny Tabletop Gamers Out There?
I really had no idea where to put this post, so if David or others have a better place for it, feel free to move it. One of the hobbies that I have brought with me from childhood through the years is...
View ArticleHorror Howze (spelling) by Henry Kuttner ???
A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away I read a book of short stories by, I think, Henry Kuttner (who had many aliases). One of the stories was genuinely sci fi scary, about a carnival horror...
View ArticleDracula In Australia Coming Soon
I'll try this again. If anyone has been reading Monster! Then you'd know that I've written a two part piece on the 1929 stage production of Dracula in Australia.. I gathered more material than could...
View ArticleVIDEO WATCHDOG ENDS PRINT PUBLICATION
More bad news for genre magazines, and film scholarship, today as Tim and Donna Lucas announce that VIDEO WATCHDOG will end puiblication as a print magazine after 27 years. "After trying many creative...
View Article"Keep Watching The Skies", But For Horror?
As time goes on and I monitor my movie watching, I almost always keep coming back to the 1950's. They are a period of movies that really gives me a great deal of joy, and I'd like to learn more about...
View ArticleThe Writing on the Wall ...?
Okay, not to tote my own horn but I've been making some research in the form of the (far from complete) list of Genre Film Magazines. The trend seems to be that: A) Larger operations who pay for...
View ArticleList of Genre Film Magazines (Big and Small) Currently in Print!
Hi, all! It's getting a bit confusing, at least to me! Thus I would like your help to compile a list of 'zines that are currently in print. When the list is done, I'll format it nicely and host it...
View ArticleRue Morgue going bi-monthly....
In 2017, RM will switch to a bi-monthly schedule.Sad....
View ArticleWayne Kinsey's Hammer Dracula Scrapbook
Received an email yesterday telling me that Wayne Kinsey's Hammer Dracula Scrapbook published by Peveril & limited to 600 copies is now available for...
View ArticleDark Side #178
Just received my subscription copy of TDS #178. As usual, just amazing flipping through each new issue when it arrives. Amazing layout and well written!Here are the major articles in #178:4 pages on...
View ArticleVIDEOSCOPE reaches #100
With all the troubles facing print monster magazines these days, nice to see several publishers hitting milestones in recent years: G-FAN and SCARY MONSTERS still going strong after 100th Anniversdary...
View ArticleBoris Karloff: The Man Remembered
This is an announcement that as of now, I have a website, dedicated to my book BORIS KARLOFF: THE MAN REMEMBERED. There are links to reviews, an interview I did about it, how I came to write it, and...
View ArticleSCARY MONSTERS #102
Here's the cover for the upcoming SCARY MONSTERS #102. Besides an interview of Mark Redfield by Dr. Gangrene, the issue includes an article about Famous Monsters publisher Philip Kim. Haven't seen the...
View ArticleI Have "Arrived"!
I should be embarrassed to post this, but I am who I am and nobody's to blame but me.For the first time in years, I phoned the Academy Library in Beverly Hills today, looking for a page from an old...
View ArticleShadowland Magazine #10 now available in digital format.
Just wanted to spread the word that Shadowland Magazine #10 has been re-released via digital format on Amazon. The print versions of Shadowland are now getting more difficult to find, so I figured it...
View ArticleA History of CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN and Calvin T. Beck
This information is buried among the contents of the upcoming (shipping October 25th)issue #37 of "Little Shoppe of Horrors." But to readers of the CHFB I wanted to makecertain everyone was aware of...
View ArticleBANZAI! Japanese cult movie posters - OUT SOON!!!
It's almost done. After several delays we are more than happy to annouce that our new book, BANZAI! JAPANESE CULT MOVIE POSTERS by Armin Junge will finally be released this year!We will start with the...
View ArticleMexican book on Mexican horror movies
FYI: I was in a Guadalajara bookshop a few weeks ago & found a 2013 title that was new to me: Mosotrología del cine mexicano (Monsterology of the Mexican Cinema). It's an attractive, full-color...
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