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
Old monster, new dread: an uncredited painting of Karloff’s Frankenstein Monster shares Issue #180’s cover with The Grim Reaper. The Halloween II filmbook concludes, John Landis and Rick Baker talk An American Werewolf in London behind the scenes, Disney goes dark with The Watcher in the Woods, and “Dark House Takes Douglas” mourns Melvyn Douglas of The Old Dark House.
Cover Spotlight
An uncredited painting of Karloff's Frankenstein Monster shares this cover with a photo from THE GRIM REAPER — classic horror and contemporary dread occupying the same page.
☠ Collector's Notes
The Landis-and-Baker American Werewolf material gives Issue #180 lasting effects-history value — that transformation changed the makeup game — and the uncredited Karloff-Monster cover painting is a curiosity cover hunters note.
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