Famous Monsters of Filmland #60 cover painting of Dorian Gray by Basil Gogos 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #60

Dec-69 • Basil Gogos
Inside This Issue

Vanity gets its portrait in Issue #60: Basil Gogos renders the rotting face of Dorian Gray in oils. Below the cover the issue digs into pre-Code dread — Lugosi’s White Zombie, the sly menace of Dracula’s Daughter, and another chapter of the long-running Frankenstein filmbook.

Cover Spotlight

Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde's portrait-cursed aesthete — painted for a cover that quietly asks whether the true horror lives in the monster or the mirror.

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Contents

  • White Zombie
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Recurring Departments

  • Inside Ackerman
  • Fang Mail
  • Mystery Photo
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Films Featured

The Picture of Dorian GrayWhite ZombieDracula's DaughterFrankenstein
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Bylines & Contributors

Forrest J Ackerman

☠ Collector's Notes

The canon widens: Dorian Gray on a monster-magazine cover was FM claiming literary horror as its territory too. Issue #60 backs the ambition inside with pre-Code substance — White Zombie and Dracula’s Daughter.

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Discussion

FM #60 — December 1969

Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde's portrait-cursed aesthete — painted for a cover that quietly asks whether the true horror lives in the monster or the mirror. Inside: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, WHITE ZOMBIE, DRACULA'S DAUGHTER, and FRANKENSTEIN, and Forrest J Ackerman.

What's your memory of FM #60? Got a copy? Got a favorite bit? Let's hear it. ⬇️

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