Famous Monsters of Filmland #97 April 1973 cover uncredited artwork for Asylum featuring horror asylum themes 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #97

Apr-73 • Uncredited
Inside This Issue

#97 doubles as a memorial to AIP founder James H. Nicholson and surveys the modern Hammer & Amicus scene, with Dracula A.D. 1972 and Baron Blood both previewed and a feature on Asylum, Roy Ward Baker’s 1972 anthology of madhouse tales. A good barometer of where horror stood in 1972.

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Uncredited artwork from the 1972 Amicus anthology ASYLUM — Roy Ward Baker's collection of madhouse tales featuring some of the finest genre talent of the era.

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Contents

  • ASYLUM (preview)
  • DRACULA A.D. 1972 (preview)
  • BARON BLOOD (synopsis)
  • James Nicholson obituary
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Recurring Departments

  • Speaking of Monsters
  • Fang Mail
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Films Featured

AsylumBig FootDracula A.D. 1972Baron Blood
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Personalities

James Nicholson

☠ Collector's Notes

Industry history in memoriam: James H. Nicholson co-founded AIP and greenlit half the drive-in canon, and Issue #97’s farewell is one of the few contemporary tributes he got. The 1972 Hammer/Amicus survey around it is a bonus snapshot of the moment.

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FM #97 — April 1973

Uncredited artwork from the 1972 Amicus anthology ASYLUM — Roy Ward Baker's collection of madhouse tales featuring some of the finest genre talent of the era. Inside: ASYLUM, BIG FOOT, DRACULA A.D. 1972, and BARON BLOOD, and James Nicholson.

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