Famous Monsters of Filmland #99 July 1973 cover painting of Lon Chaney Jr. as The Wolf Man by Basil Gogos featuring horror werewolf themes 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #99

Jul-73 • Basil Gogos
Inside This Issue

Basil Gogos returns to paint Lon Chaney Jr.’s anguished Wolf Man for Issue #99 — the tragic lycanthrope at his most sympathetic. The issue is a feast of monster cinema: the Universal rally House of Frankenstein, the Filipino fever-dream The Mad Doctor of Blood Island, and the stop-motion dinosaur of The Beast of Hollow Mountain stomping through the back pages.

Cover Spotlight

Lon Chaney Jr. as Lawrence Talbot — a painting of the Wolf Man that captures all the anguish and inevitability of Universal's most tragic monster.

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Contents

  • And Now... the News Noose!
  • Blobs, Brains and Other Gooey Objects
  • Letter to a Lycanthrope
  • Calling Dr. Death
  • House of Frankenstein
  • Drip, Drip, Drip Bloody Terrors
  • The Island of Lost Stills
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Recurring Departments

  • Speaking of Monsters
  • Fang Mail
  • Mystery Photo
  • Professor Gruebeard
  • Graveyard Examiner
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Films Featured

The Wolf ManHouse of FrankensteinThe Mad Doctor of Blood IslandThe Beast of Hollow Mountain
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Personalities

Lon Chaney Jr.Henry HullJ. Carrol Naish
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Bylines & Contributors

Thomas Rogers

☠ Collector's Notes

A Basil Gogos cover issue — one for Gogos collectors — anchored by Lon Chaney Jr.’s Wolf Man and the Universal monster rally House of Frankenstein.

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Related Issues

More covers by Basil Gogos
Famous Monsters of Filmland #10 January 1961 cover painting by Basil Gogos of Claude Rains with mask from Phantom of the Opera #10 Jan-61 Famous Monsters of Filmland #12 June 1961 cover painting by Basil Gogos of Oliver Reed as Werewolf from Curse of the Werewolf #12 Jun-61 Famous Monsters of Filmland #21 February 1963 cover retouched photo by Basil Gogos from Bride of Frankenstein #21 Feb-63 Famous Monsters of Filmland #47 cover painting of Claude Rains as the masked PHANTOM OF THE OPERA by Basil Gogos #47 Nov-67 Famous Monsters of Filmland #58 cover painting of Karloff from THE MUMMY by Basil Gogos #58 Oct-69 Famous Monsters of Filmland 1970 Yearbook cover featuring Bela Lugosi as Dracula 1970 Yearbook Jul-70 Famous Monsters of Filmland #110 September 1974 cover painting of Boris Karloff as The Ghoul by Basil Gogos featuring horror ghoul themes #110 Sep-74 NEXT ISSUE → Famous Monsters of Filmland #100 August 1973 cover painting of Karloff as the Frankenstein Monster with circus poster motif by Basil Gogos featuring horror anniversary themes #100 Aug-73

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FM #99 — July 1973

Lon Chaney Jr. as Lawrence Talbot — a painting of the Wolf Man that captures all the anguish and inevitability of Universal's most tragic monster. Inside: THE WOLF MAN, HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND, and THE BEAST OF HOLLOW MOUNTAIN, and Lon Chaney Jr., Thomas Rogers, Henry Hull, and J. Carrol Naish.

Rip the cellophane off this one in the replies — favorite moments, worst nightmares, cover love, all welcome. ⬇️

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