Famous Monsters Forryever • Personalities

Bela Lugosi

43 issues • 1958–1982 • Famous Monsters of Filmland

“I am Dracula.” The Hungarian who became the vampire — opera cape, hypnotic stare, that unmistakable accent frozen on the page. Lugosi's tragedy and triumph, the way Forry's magazine remembered its patron saint of the undead.

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43 issues

The Bela Lugosi Reel

A run through the covers, on film.

Bela Lugosi and the screen vampires

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Lugosi anchored among the screen-vampire bloodline; Schreck's Orlok before him, Lee and Barnabas after; Mark of the Vampire reteam with Browning, El Vampiro from Mexico

The Midnight Reel — all 41 reels →