Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Inside This Issue
The Man of a Thousand Faces gets his close-up. FM #102 leads with an uncredited painting of Lon Chaney’s Erik from The Phantom of the Opera — the skull face that started it all, still arresting decades on. Inside, the 100th-issue celebration rolls on: Robert Bloch’s wit, Christopher Lee and Oliver Reed prowling through Curse of the Werewolf, an Edgar G. Ulmer obituary, and Forry Ackerman conducting the whole macabre orchestra with a pun in each hand.
Cover Spotlight
An uncredited painting of Lon Chaney's Erik from THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA — the skull face that started it all, still as arresting as the day it first appeared on a newsstand rack.
☠ Collector's Notes
Lon Chaney Sr. is the magazine’s founding saint, and an issue built around his Erik carries weight beyond its newsstand date. Add “Master of the Masks,” the Verne Langdon profile prized by the mask-collecting wing of the hobby, and Issue #102 makes a natural companion to the centennial celebration it extends.
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