Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #131 January 1977 cover featuring color photo of Christopher Lee as Dracula with bloody fangs 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #131

Jan-77 Photograph
Inside This Issue

Ed Wood’s strangest gift to Bela Lugosi gets the filmbook treatment in Issue #131 — Bride of the Monster, octopus and all — alongside “Lugosi’s Seldom Seen Film Files” for the deep-cut devotee. Karloff goes “Boris in Bedlam,” “Creatures of the Watery Deeps” opens an aquatic-monster series, “Around the World with AIP” tours the drive-in empire, and a color photo of Christopher Lee’s Dracula fronts the whole affair.

Cover Spotlight

A color photo of Christopher Lee as Dracula — blood on the fangs, red eyes blazing — the raw ferocity that made Hammer's Count the most dangerous vampire in cinema.

Contents

  • Music, Monster, Please
  • Creatures of the Watery Deeps
  • Around the World with AIP
  • Vultura's Final Chapter
  • Answer to Mystery Photo No.93
  • Bride of the Monster
  • Boris in Bedlam
  • The Mad Ghoul

Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail

Bylines & Contributors

☠ Collector's Notes

Photo covers dot this stretch of the run, and Issue #131’s Hammer shot fronts an issue collectors value for its rarities: seldom-seen Lugosi film coverage and the Ed Wood Bride of the Monster filmbook. Aquatic-monster theming gives it a distinct flavor.

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FM #131 — January 1977

A color photo of Christopher Lee as Dracula — blood on the fangs, red eyes blazing — the raw ferocity that made Hammer's Count the most dangerous vampire in cinema. Inside: Dracula A.D. 1972, Bride of the Monster, Bedlam, and The Mad Ghoul, and Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, and Gene Roth.

Tell us the first monster from this one that lived in your head rent-free. ⬇️

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