Famous Monsters of Filmland #104 January 1974 cover painting of The Fly by Ken Kelly featuring horror fly monster themes 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #104

Jan-74 Ken Kelly
Inside This Issue

A Ken Kelly cover brings The Fly to the front of Issue #104, and Robert Bloch haunts the contents twice — once as the subject of a “Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” piece, once pleading the fans’ case in “Son of Psycho,” the famous call to help save the Ackermansion. Vincent Price stalks through Theatre of Blood, Amicus opens its Vault of Horror, and the snakes of Sssssss slither in behind them.

Cover Spotlight

A painting of THE FLY — the original 1958 shocker's iconic human-headed insect, the most disturbing thing that ever pleaded for help at a spider's web.

Contents

  • A Smashing Issue
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • Frankenstein, 1973
  • The Forrest Prime Evil
  • Son of Psycho
  • Ssssssss
  • Vault of Horror
  • Answer to Mystery Photo No.69

Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
  • You Axed for It
  • Professor Gruebeard
  • Graveyard Examiner

Personalities

Bylines & Contributors

☠ Collector's Notes

A piece of fandom history hides in Issue #104: Robert Bloch’s “Son of Psycho” appeal for the Ackermansion is the kind of inside-baseball artifact FM lore is built on — and Ken Kelly’s Fly cover holds the wall on its own.

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FM #104 — January 1974

A painting of THE FLY — the original 1958 shocker's iconic human-headed insect, the most disturbing thing that ever pleaded for help at a spider's web. Inside: THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, FRANKENSTEIN 1973, SSSSSSS, and VAULT OF HORROR, and Robert Bloch, Vincent Price, and Forry Ackerman.

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