Famous Monsters of Filmland #84 June 1971 cover photo of Christopher Lee as Dracula featuring horror vampire themes 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #84

Jun-71 • Photograph
Inside This Issue

Christopher Lee bares his fangs on Issue #84’s photo cover — the definitive modern Dracula. Inside, the giant-mollusk menace of The Monster That Challenged the World crawls ashore, Universal’s monster-rally House of Dracula throws its doors open, and the issue weighs the many Hunchbacks of Notre Dame.

Cover Spotlight

Christopher Lee as Dracula — a color photo of Hammer's definitive undead count, cape swept wide, eyes blazing, as immortal on film as he is in the mythology.

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Contents

  • The Monster That Challenged the World
  • The Hunchbacks of Notre Dame
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
  • The Scream Test
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Films Featured

The Monster That Challenged the WorldHouse of DraculaThe Devil CommandsThe Raven
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Personalities

Christopher Lee

☠ Collector's Notes

Iconography changing hands: Lee’s photographic Dracula claiming the cover — where a painted Lugosi once ruled — says everything about horror’s early-’70s present tense. Issue #84 marks the shift cleanly.

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FM #84 — June 1971

Christopher Lee as Dracula — a color photo of Hammer's definitive undead count, cape swept wide, eyes blazing, as immortal on film as he is in the mythology. Inside: THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD, HOUSE OF DRACULA, THE DEVIL COMMANDS, and THE RAVEN, and Christopher Lee.

What's your memory of FM #84? Got a copy? Got a favorite bit? Let's hear it. ⬇️

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