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Famous MonstersForryeverDying to keep the memory of Famous Monsters of Filmland alive!
Inside This Issue
#28 is built around a full Island of Lost Souls filmbook — the 1932 H.G. Wells adaptation long banned in Britain — paired with a Manster filmbook and “The Most Horrible Frankenstein,” a look at the rarely-seen French version. A deep dive for the pre-Code-horror collector.
Cover Spotlight
Bela Lugosi in ISLAND OF LOST SOULS — the mad doctor's tortured creation staring out with those impossible eyes, captured in an uncredited painting of one of Lugosi's most haunting performances.
Roll The Film
Bela Lugosi (Sayer of the Law, Island of Lost Souls)
Thumb Thru Thursday 4:43
Uncredited painted cover of Lugosi as the Sayer of the Law in Island of Lost Souls (1932, Paramount, from H.G. Wells), a role buried under beast-man hair, far from his Dracula; inside, an Island of Lost Souls filmbook, The Manster, Unmasking the Phantom
☠ Collector's Notes
Coverage you couldn’t get elsewhere: Island of Lost Souls had spent decades banned in Britain when Issue #28 gave it the filmbook treatment, and the “French Frankenstein” piece chased a version almost nobody had seen. FM as the era’s only window.
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