Films

It’s Right There in the Name: Filmland

Famous Monsters of Filmland was built on the movies. The Universal classics haunting late-night TV, Hammer’s blood-red revivals, the stop-motion giants and the drive-in invaders from outer space — month after month the magazine filled its pages with their stills, their stories and the people who made them, and put their monsters on the cover.

These are the franchises it came back to again and again. Pick one and you get every issue of Famous Monsters that featured it, cover runs and deep-cut photo spreads alike. Frankenstein alone turns up in 59 issues. Whether you came up on Dracula, The Wolf Man or King Kong, find your favorite film, then go find the issue that ran it.