Famous Monsters of Filmland #53 cover painting of THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN by Basil Gogos 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #53

Jan-69 • Basil Gogos
Inside This Issue

A Basil Gogos cover fronts #53, but the real find is inside: “The Horror in the Lighthouse,” a rare Edgar Allan Poe / Robert Bloch collaboration, alongside a Hammer overview. A Gogos issue collectors single out for that one-of-a-kind story credit.

Cover Spotlight

A painting of THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN — Bert I. Gordon's atomic-age giant, towering over everything with equal measures of fury and bewilderment.

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Contents

  • The Shape of Things to Come
  • The Horror in the Lighthouse
  • Castle of Terror
  • Face 1001
  • The Hammer of Horror
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Recurring Departments

  • Mystery Photo
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Films Featured

The Amazing Colossal ManFantasiaHammer Films
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Personalities

Edgar Allan PoeRobert BlochWilliam CastleLon Chaney

☠ Collector's Notes

An unfinished Poe, finished by Robert Bloch: “The Horror in the Lighthouse” makes Issue #53 a footnote in both men’s canons at once, and the only place many readers ever met the piece. Literary-completist bait of the highest order.

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FM #53 — January 1969

A painting of THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN — Bert I. Gordon's atomic-age giant, towering over everything with equal measures of fury and bewilderment. Inside: THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN, FANTASIA, and HAMMER FILMS, and Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, William Castle, and Lon Chaney.

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

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