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
Bela Lugosi and Carroll Borland rise again on Issue #61, painted by Peter Green from the eerie Mark of the Vampire. It’s a bookish issue: John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There?” — the seed of The Thing from Another World — runs in condensed form, a teenage Ed Naha (a future screenwriter) surfaces in the letters, and Claude Rains haunts a Phantom of the Opera retrospective.
Cover Spotlight
Bela Lugosi and Carroll Borland in a painting from MARK OF THE VAMPIRE — Tod Browning's atmospheric 1935 mystery, with Borland's Luna as one of the most haunting presences in classic horror.
Roll The Film
Bela Lugosi and Carroll Borland from Mark of the Vampire (Peter Green cover)
Thumb Thru Thursday 4:03
FM 61 (Jan 1970), Peter Green cover of Lugosi and Carroll Borland from Mark of the Vampire; the film is MGM not Universal and Lugosi plays Count Mora, NOT Dracula; Borland's Luna is the blueprint for Vampira, Morticia and Lily Munster; contents include the Mark of the Vampire filmbook, a condensed Who Goes There? as The Thing from Another World, a Robert Bloch reprint, and a Fang Mail letter from a young Ed Naha
☠ Collector's Notes
Before The Thing was a franchise it was a novella, and Issue #61 put John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There?” straight into monster kids’ hands — source-text education, FM style. Watch the letters: a teenage Ed Naha, future Honey, I Shrunk the Kids screenwriter, checks in.
☠ Don’t just lurk in the crypt
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Talk covers, show off your slabs, and swap finds with fellow fiends. Free to join — the crypt’s always taking new members.
