Famous Monsters of Filmland #109 August 1974 cover uncredited painting of Vincent Price from Madhouse featuring horror madhouse themes 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #109

Aug-74 • Basil Gogos
Inside This Issue

Issue #109 marks a turning point: the magazine’s first full Night of the Living Dead coverage, George Romero’s graveyard revolution finally getting its FM filmbook. Vincent Price takes the cover, painted by Basil Gogos for AIP’s Madhouse, previewed inside. A Son of Kong filmbook reprint, “Karloff Revisited,” and a look at TV’s “Horror Hall of Fame” special complete a bridge between horror’s past and its unquiet future.

Cover Spotlight

Almost certainly a Basil Gogos painting of Vincent Price from MADHOUSE — the 1974 AIP film where Price played a horror actor haunted by his own fictional monster. Art imitating life imitating art.

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Contents

  • Out of This Swirl, Son of Monster Mash
  • Horror Hall of Fame
  • Son of Kong
  • Kiko Komix
  • Night of the Living Dead
  • Karloff Revisited
  • Madhouse
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  • Fang Mail
  • You Axed for It
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☠ Collector's Notes

Romero’s arrival in these pages gives Issue #109 a foothold in any zombie-era collection — ground-floor coverage of the film that rewrote horror. The Satanic Rites of Dracula back cover keeps the Hammer faithful interested too.

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FM #109 — August 1974

Almost certainly a Basil Gogos painting of Vincent Price from MADHOUSE — the 1974 AIP film where Price played a horror actor haunted by his own fictional monster. Art imitating life imitating art. Inside: MADHOUSE, SON OF KONG, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, and THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA, and Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, and David Stidworthy.

Who had this one on their shelf? Who swiped it from an older cousin? Spill. ⬇️

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