Famous Monsters of Filmland issue #169 November 1980 cover by Basil Gogos featuring eerie mother skeleton from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #169

Nov-80 • Basil Gogos
Inside This Issue

Basil Gogos does Hitchcock: Issue #169’s cover takes on Psycho’s most famous resident. Inside, Ray Harryhausen’s Clash of the Titans creatures get a showcase, Lucio Fulci’s Zombie staggers in for a preview, and Contamination proves how fast Alien spawned imitators. “The Panther Woman” remembers Kathleen Burke of Island of Lost Souls.

Cover Spotlight

Basil Gogos paints the mummified Mrs. Bates from PSYCHO — Hitchcock's desiccated revelation in the fruit cellar, given the full Gogos color treatment.

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Contents

  • Scarred to Death
  • The Shape of Things to Come
  • The Hearse
  • Birthday Witches
  • Alien on Earth
  • Lord of the Sunsword
  • Harryhausen's Titans - Clash with Class
  • Answer to Mystery Photo No. 126
  • Close Encounters of the Weird Kind
  • The Panther Woman
  • The Horrorworld Reporter
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
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Films Featured

PsychoContamination (Alien on Earth)Clash of the TitansZombieThundarr the Barbarian
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Personalities

Carrie FisherBela LugosiElsa LanchesterRay HarryhausenKathleen Burke

☠ Collector's Notes

Late-run Gogos covers are events, and a Gogos Psycho — painted the year Hitchcock died — gives Issue #169 a poignant edge. Harryhausen’s Titans showcase pulls the stop-motion crowd too.

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FM #169 — November 1980

Basil Gogos paints the mummified Mrs. Bates from PSYCHO — Hitchcock's desiccated revelation in the fruit cellar, given the full Gogos color treatment. Inside: Psycho, Contamination (Alien on Earth), Clash of the Titans, and Zombie, and Basil Gogos, Carrie Fisher, Bela Lugosi, and Elsa Lanchester.

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

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