SEPTEMBER 1960

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OF FILMLAND

CHANEY
MAN
OF A

THOUSAND
FACES

WHAT'S THE

NEW LOOK
IN

MONSTERS!

4IP

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PHOTO PREVIEW

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13

GHOSTS

THE BEAST.

"FAMOUS MONSTfRS always brings "It's like a Grimm Fairy

out the Beast in me," confesses Jean Marais, star of BEAUTY Tale illustrated with photos-that's the Beauty of it."

AND

roURIH
HOT
as Q feor cracker!

OF
WARREN

An issue that's a real sparkler, that's what Dr. Acula, Igor, Phyllis the Phantom. Karlon Torgosi and AH the Gang have assembled for you this time. The occasion? To celebrate IndePUNdence Day!

And

nite.

As you turn these red hot pages (printed on asbestos so you won't burn your fingers) you'll find a specDracular disploy of fearworks, from pun-wheels to Ghoulden Fountains and the famous Tower of Jewels. No, we don't mean Ghouls-were talking about the Tower of Jewels Verne!

No wonder this issue is selling like o House Afire. In hciklang! ktangi here comes the Fear Department now! FORREST J ACKERMAN (The Old Feor Chief)
and Your Fearless Publisher. JIM

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ALBERT NUETZEll.
13

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GHOSTS.

Here

DEAR MONSTER is the Most

Clever,

Amusing, Amazing, Interesting,

Informative and Intelligent part of each issue in other words, the portion that the Editor has nothing to do with, but is created from the correspondence of YOU, the
Readei-s

8
COUKT KAKLON TONOOMT
No.
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ifrfanwvt, ivfin-fameiB brathar.

THE GHASTROLOGICAL HORRORSCOPE Were you born jjnder the sign of Kharis, the Egyptian ?
Dracularis, the Transylvanian ? Or Minotaurus, the bullthrower? Then you will welcome these revelations from Dr. Zodiackerman, world 's-famous clairvoyant of the grisly ball, who Knows All, Seize All and Tells All about the Film Fare for Fright Fans that's scheduled for the simmer months and the cool times to come.

Forrail (Dr. Acwia) Adnmon, (ha AtonsMr of Movicdwn.

MoamI*

FORREST

ACKBRMAN
22

editor

PHYUIS FARKAS

man

aging edtfor

MISTER MONSTER

GEORGE FRENOY
Off director

LON the Legendary The Man of Thousand Faces, the monster in as many places. He played in nearly 150 films, and he lives today in revivals of such classics
!

CHANEY

MAURKE COOPER
kee pe r of the dungeon

as

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. Thrill to the weird
life, chill

story of his

to his Pandora's boxful of make-ups.

JAMES WARREN
publisher

34

13

GHOSTS

More murdersome than

than than
.

MACABRE more haunting THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL tinglier THE TINGLER it's our Feature Preview pic.

ture-story of the 13 (count 'em: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-1112-13) GHOSTS!

S*cond-Clan moil j>rlv1l>iiiai airthorintf at nitlwMehla. Pani with oddltionQl uilry ot M4eh>n, Conn.

42

THE ROBINSON GRUE-SO STORY Young Man makes BAD in a Big Way.
the

An

Inner View of

Creator of

THE BEAST OF THE HAUNTED

CAVE.

47 MONSTER
vor no
rMpomibflity ri b outpftd for

unioliciMd monuacricrti, photagraphi, artwork or laltan. Notnina moy rpilntd in wholi or In (Mrt without writtan imiiiion ftom Itw pubiitkti. RwrodiKtron>

CLUB Lon Chaney probably would have been a member if FAMOUS MONSTERS had existed 35 years ago. Even Forrest Ackerman would be a member, if he were alive today. So look alive whether you are or not, and join

the only Club for Monsters in All Creation.

HpTMily

fatfarddin.

FA.

50

of

rwb* . dlipOK i of by way of ixeapr ot tlM futi ntm\ prkn of 35c par cop/; and thnl It iholl nol be
,

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$1 MILLION ANNOUNCEMENT" The Thrilling News you've been waiting for for Three Years! Run, do not walk, to page 50 for the most exciting announcement of 1960, the news that will mean 50% more monsters for you every year from here to Eternity Plus a peek at the eeA:-some goodies we'll be giving out with in issues #9, 10 and onward.

trodfl axcvpt Itvough our national dli. iflbuior and thair aut(ior?iad dilrlbuton.

51

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Step right up and take your pick of a hundred-and-one monster items, from 8mm films to LP records monster masks to monster dentist drills; human skulls to shrunken Exclusive with FAMOUS MONSTERS the Official Mail Order Magazine of Transylvania.
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heads!

EDGAR ALLAN POE only took "A Descent into the Maelstrom," but pity us and the ocean of letters with which you, our fateful goryspondents, inundate us. ("Inundate" is a highrate word meaning "covered with water"; you know like all wet.) Every time we are faced with the problem of picking the best from hundreds of letters, we feel like we are making a descent into the MAILstrom

W Mt#

here earlier to

^
when
his

mode

of

life

observe ttie habits and attributed to you earthlings.

bookstore we glanced in the spied a magazine called
it,

How

right

you

are!

Never forget the

tragic

example
to build
first

of Im-ho-tep Jr:

Passing by

Egyptian
slaves

father

window

and

FAMOUS MONSTERS. After examining we concluded that if people really read

this

came

the

wouldn't let him have a pyramid with, he bejuveNILE delinquent! Ed.

"thing,"

then
in

your

world
, .

is
.

truly

doomed. Leaving,

haste.

WATER TREAT!
Everybody
(except

TANYA & ELLIK

and
Lissen,

Fay
thot

Wray)
I'd

you Smart

Ellik

any

more

mean

to

KONG,

was so take him out LEE RUBIN

cracks about our crackerjack publication we'll Tanya hide and exile you to

for a nice breezy water-ski.

WENDY

Venusuela! Ed.

Great Neck, NY,

PRIZES, this issue, for most helpful

assistance in the creation of our monsterzine, to: ALAN DODD (of England), GIOVANNI SCOGNAMILLO (of far-off Turkey) and IRVING GLASSMAN a three-time winner of distant, mysterious, exotic Brooklyn???
I've

TEACHER'S PEP
and
reading your mag for awhile found out one thing: when you bring FM to school you have to fight to keep it. For some reason TEACHERS like to take and KEEP It. What would like to know is: why do teachers take your mag and why do they keep it?

^1

been

I've

Hl,?

BEFORE

HAROLD SMITH
Philadelphia. Pa.
just topic just the other day with the Principal of Three Storeys High, and just before he invited us to jump out the third storey he revealed to us that teachers take FM to keep them awake at nite
this

Oddly enough, we were discussing

while correcting students' papers!

Ed.

HOW LUCKY KEN YOU

I

GET?

the hospital when read FM. Since had nothing else to do, looked for the LUCKY i7 and found it! Now if you put a Lucky 7 in your companion magazine FAVORITE WESTERNS and find it, I'll be set for

was

sick

in

your

last issue of
F

life!

Kenny was the first of 250 lucky boys and girls to find a #7 stamped in their 7th issue of FM, which automatically entitled them to a FREE LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION. We hope the happy discovery helped young master George to a speedy
recovery.

Well, Wendy Lee, ote Kong sure has a great neck for it. and you have a great knack for making him happy. Just don't let our magazine fall into the water, 'cu2 Ed. we'd hate to be called all wet.

-Ed.

From the land of Dr Jekyll &. Mr Hyde. Reader R. A. THOMPSON sends us this
startling
tice

BY JUVE!
hope your coming issues are Morloch your 6th one the feature about George Pal's new picture really gave me a good TIME, By the way, my neighbors are very
1

pair of pictures of himself.

No-

how his appearance has improved remarkably after only one treatment of

FAMOUS MONSTERS!
DID THEY PLANET THIS WAY?
leaving our planet (Venus) we were told by our leader that these people we

much against who has done

told her
to,

Monsters, especially one, everything she can to discourage our Monster Club. Until
.

On

were about to face were crude and barbaric and were destined to destroy themselves. After landing we were contacted by two of our "people" who were sent

if we couldn't do what we wanted we would be in the same position as those poor so-called Juvenile Delinquents. with nothing to do but get into trouble.

GOOD KNIGHT'S WORK

Presenting BOBBY KNIGHT
his friend

(right)

and

FRANK

DARRELL BAKER
Anaheim,
Calif.

dorado.

Ark.,

N. STEIN, both of Elproud owners of a set of

FAMOUS MONSTERS.

ZACH, JR.
I

am

sending you our impression of what

Zacherley's wife Isabelle and son might look like. Perhaps one day my little boy may become a famous Monster of Cere-

monies

like his idol

Zach,

LOUISE (AND JOHNNY) SERVAT

Corona, Long Island, N.Y.

will be a suspense film which, with a little bit of stretching, could be called a sort of horror film. Roger Vadim intends to direct a film called "Satan." never did find out if Publisher Warren is the same James who produced and directed " 'Teen-Aged Zombies" and "The Incredible Petrified World." Did tell you there are a series of new Frank enstein paperbacks, in French? I'm dying to read them in English translation. And while I'm on the subject of books. I'll go out on a limb and predict that two recent books, "Too Many Ghosts" and "Ritual

Waiting"

SUE WHO?
We didn't notice at first glance at this Vampira-ish picture of reader SUE CLOTof Bremerton, Wash,, but FM is putting on the dog! Note the black dachshaunt under Sue's arm at the right.

WORTHY

in
In

tion,

of
if

the Dark" will wind up as horror films. looking over your Monster Club sec came across a Joseph P. Brennan New Hyde Park, New York. D'you know he's the Joseph Payne Brennan, author
\

ot

"9

Horrors and a
"?

Dream" and "The

IRVING GLASSMAN
Brooklyn. N.Y.

Dark Returners

SERIOUS SUZY
Louise, you're a Mother after our own heart and if Igor hadn't swiped it again, you could have it. Good for you, entering into the spirit of fantasy fun with your young 'un. We'll be watching for Johnny

the

we have the French editions of new Frankensteins, which include "The Lurking Frankenstein," "The Footstep of Frankenstein," "The Tower of Frankenstein" and at least two others
Yes,
in

on TV

in

1970. Ed.

all of which we read sylvanian. As for Mr. Brennan of New Park, we JekyI Icorrection: New Hyde

the original Tran-

invite

NO COMPLAINTS
I

at ease.
ter.

am

a faithful

reader of FM, but every

him to write in and put your mind Thanks for your usual fme let-

Ed.

All kidding aside, fellers, I've got a seri ous issue here for all monster-movielovers: All too many horror films today are cheap and silly blood-baths. We have comparatively few films, considering the present monster-craze, that can compare with the hardy old-timers like DRACULA and FRANKENSTEIN, There are several good films, of course {Hammer Films have been helping a lot), but for every good horror movie there are a half-dozen

once in awhile you see some letters COMPLAINING about your mag. They come up with the stupidest errors, that
you must think they go over the pages
with a magnifying glass or something. somebody should complain just think about the complainers. guess they don't take into consideration how hard it is to am an extreme put a magazine together. Karloff, Lugosi and Chaney (Sr & Jr) fan. really have a subscription to FM, and think it's really great. You had a good idea there, bringing out a mag for us
I

MAN EGGING EDITOR

Who needs
I

a foto of another

MONSTER?
of that so-called

lovely

wanna see another picture PHYLLIS FARKAS, your

editor.

Man Aging
any day!

Man, she can age

me

poor and even bad ones. It's these lowgrade films that make our parents grumble at monster movies in general, and the group of films that we teeners like is getting a bad name. The issue was brought to a head recently when THE

SATURDAY EVENING POST

VAVA VOOM
Houston, Tex.
in

printed an artide that said cheap films are increasing

number because we
'em.
If

gullible

critturs

watch
fans!

Hear

ye,

teenage
quality
in

we want any

monsterour film-

we FAMOUS MONSTERS

monster -lovers.

fun we'll have to work for it! Why don't readers work out a rating system for our thrillers instead

JOHN HANSON
Ypsilanti. Mich,

bless you, John Hanson! You're few people have any Idea how hard espeto put a magazine together cially when you have to staple thousands of copies together with your teeth be cause you stapler has broken, and the
Well,
right,
it

of letting disgruntled groan-ups do it for Tops, us? Let's classify em ourselves Good, Fair Scare, and Little- Kids' -Stuff.

That way
to

we
that

is

know

Hollywood
thrillers

will

or get cobwebs

won't have to watch a frim it's bad. so the boys in have to give us good in their cameras.

SUZY FISH
South Orange, N.J.

staples get

all

rusty.

Ed.

NOOSE MAN, FIRST GLASS

News: Herman Cohen, the world's oldest
'teen-ager,
is

currently

grinding

out

Suzy, you're a girl after our own heart, and if Karlon hadn't copped it from Igor, you could have it. You tell 'em, teener! COBWEBS & INDIANS for any producer whose pix don't measure up to your
standards.

"Konga" in London. Michael Gough. an over-aged teenager from "Black Muwill star. For grown-ups, there'll be "Blood and Roses," a Roman chiller said to be based on 'an ISth Century novel by Sheridan LeFanu," but how in the world a 19th Century author could possibly write an 18th Century novel is completely beyond me. [Simple: Time Machine. Ed.] It's supposed to be a "psychological vampire story." "Nippon Tanjoh" ("Birth of Japan"), costliest
seum,"

Ed,

would

Japanese film yet made, will be more phantasy than history. "Nine Coaches

We don't believe youf name. Who have a name like Vava? Except, perhaps. Zsa Zsa, Didn't we see a movie about you recently VOOM AT THE TOP? Anyway, your taste in Man Aging editors corresponds with ours, and we never need to be egged on to publish a picture Publisher, of the Incomparable Phyllis.

#<i*l^

THE UNEARTHLY face above

is

one that only a

Mummy

could lovel

%
By Ghostrodomu!

li

G^ASTrOIoqicaL

For

all

those born under the ostrological

sign

of

Tutjaro which extends Jan.

thru

Dec. 31 there

is

MONSTROUSLY

good news

in

this

feature about creature -films to

come. Just turn the pages and turn pale!

CIJ AUE'C

Al ll/F

'

'""''''^ suspi'l'x

<'>'

"<>"

"

'''<>

CIRCUS OF HORRORS.

drac

is

back

Peter Gushing as Dr. Van Helsing, holder of the DFC (Dracula Fighter Courageous) medal, meets up with new adversaries in BRIDES OF DRACULA, wherein he tries unsuccessfully to save a beautiful

THE

young French girl, Marianne Danielle, from a fate worse than death undeath
:

On her way to Badstein, Marianne's stagecoach mysteriously deserts her at an Inn. There she is befriended ( ?> by Baroness

Meinster. an embittered old recluse who gives her refuge for the night. At the chateau, Marianne discovers a devilishly handsome young man chained by his ankle to a wall. The Baroness says it is her son, who is feebleminded, but the kindhearted Marianne cannot accept this explanation and frees the prisoner. Soon after the Baroness is murdered And the awful truth is revealed by her maid Marianne has unwittingly released a vam!

pire!

Yeowl

Is

that a boa-constrictor around her neck? Wouldn't

want

to be her boa-frlendl

They
in

may

not look like harum-scarums, but the whole town's scared of these golden-haired children
Their Fathers

MGM's VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED.

come from Another

Planet.

Fleeing in horror from the house of the undead, Marianne runs into a funeral procession. Lying in the casket is the body of a girl from whose neck trickles a thin stream of blood. The villagers, always suspicious of strangers, suspect Marianne of being the vampire who caused the girl's death, and pursue her straight into the arms of the Baron ... at whose sight she faints. She is saved by the morning crow of a cock, which is a warning to the vampire that he must return to his coiRn. When Van Helsing learns what has happened, he realizes the immediate grave danger to the district and acts at once to uncover and destroy the undead. Two female vampires are lured from their graves and stakes driven thru their hearts, but the wily Baron, disciple of Dracula himself, eludes the doctor's every stratagem worse, this unholy creature bites Marianne, turning her

into one of the Brides.

At last, cornered by Van Helsing in a deserted windmill, the Baron turns on him and inflicts his fatal bite but Van Helsing painfully bums out the mark of the vampire by searing his flesh on an open fire. Then, in desperation, the doctor calls on all the Forces of Darkness to help him. The Dark Powers descend from the skies in the form of a black cloud of bats, vicious red-eyed sharp-fanged beasts whose teeth tear at the flesh of the vampire Baron like winged piranhas. Even Van Helsing is repulsed by the horrid sight, and, running from the scene, jumps onto one of the windmill's vanes. As the moonlight catches the new position of the mill's arms, a powerful exorcizing shadow is cast on the ground The shadow of the cross.' As the "Crucifix" falls on the Baron, his evil half -life come to an abrupt full-stop!

the creatures

books for
beastniks
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" and "Where Is Everybody?" are 2 of the 6 on Twilight Zone now
stories you've enjoyed

are conung
is

CALTIKl, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER on his way from Italy (his growls and
. .

snarls dubbed into English).

.

THE LOST WORLD

sports an 80'

available in a pocketbook of the

same

title,

Are monster. Giant spiders menace a boatload of shipwrecked women in the German-made
.
. .

HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND.

...

42' plastic prehistoric beast appears

realistically threatening in
tale

DINOSAURUS!

... The English-made GORGO tells the of The Day the World Shook beneath
. . .

the weight of a

modern Behemoth. And King Kong is revolving

in his

grave at the prospect of a forthcoming monster picture to be called KONGA.

THE OF ORLAC, from the book of the same title, is to be filmed for the third Conrad Veidt, of Caligari fame, played the principal role the first time; Peter Lorre filmed had the haunted hands when LOVE; and now Mel the novel as Ferrar is scheduled to star. Zacherley's Midnight Snacks is a papersnack er, paperback with contributions of ghoulish stories like "The Whispering Gallery" and "The Ghost" and "Carillon of Skulls" by authors of such films as IT
time
!

HANDS

MGM

MAD

Everybody wonts Tomorrow." in Hiis

out" by
ttio

gat Into

tti*

octt

The Origtnal
-

figg

Noggins singing
tho fewtldors of
loft.

Today ond Gone

mom Hmm
No

ttio

MRiOPOLr dawk MmOPOLIS,

ttio

rcM>l*.

rolotton to tho kids In

pKoto on tho

THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE, THE TWONKY, 4-SIDED TRIANGLE, CURSE OF THE FACELESS MAN and THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN.
With introductions to each tale by New York Channel 9's Zach, like: "This story goes a long way toward explaining why
there are no mirrors in Transylvania." (See the advertisement for "Midnight Snacks" in
this issue.

showing of the

The Brides of Dracula is being released as a pocketbook novel simultaneously with the picture. And stories by Curt "Donovan's Brain" Siodmak like "The Fortune Teller," "Fever," "Girl in Ice" and "Mirror" are being collected from the Lon Chaney, Jr. skelevision

series,

#13

DEMON STREET,

for pocket-

book presentation.

horrors from the

other hemisphere
Italy,

Sweden, Russia
grist

even Finlandare
our fans of the

now providing
grisly.

for

From the BEAST, grim

Ilya

Soviet Union comes THE fairy tale of daring peasant

Muromets who, armed with a magic

Hts Father must have been a Pirate, to have a Son who's such a Cut Throat! (From THE UNEARTHLY'

He would open
THE LAND

his big

louth! (Prehistoric

elasmosaurus mvnoces Jock V)aho

UNKNOWN)

i^:

Attention,

Lil

Egypt. Here

is

thot foto you

requMtod of Lon Chanoy

'ii'irriiiiumMrii

ir.

as a Catro Proctor.
^^jMiOkMsffimi

sword, lops off the heads of several imaginary monsters, including a fine fire-belching dragon with three heads. SADKO, also from the Soviets, is a splendid color fantasy of a mythical hero's many strange adventures, including a meeting with an extraordinary creature half bird and half woman. In the Russian FLYING CARPET, a 3700 old genie is baflled by the modern world upon his release from a 1000-year-long imprisonment in a jar.
Collaborating with a Finnish studio, Moscompleted SAMPO, an epic of mfigic in the grand manner of SIEG-

film has

and monsters

FRIED,

THE
is

7th

THE THIEF OF BAGDAD and VOYAGE OF SINBAD. SAMPO

the exciting story of Louhi, evil ruler of

a gloomy realm of cold and darkness known as the Kelevala; and during the course of
the picture we are treated to the spectacle of serpents being trampled by a fire-breathing

Beware the Brides of MarchI And bewar THE BRIDES OF MACULA-of rhich this is en*. is

Who

said beauty is only skin deop? The deeper (THE BRIDES OF DRACULA)

we

dip beneath Dracula's skin, the creepier he gets.

iron horse, a flying cloak in human form, a woman walking on the waves of the sea, a talking birch tree, etc. In Italy, J. Sheridan Le Fanu's classic study of a female vampire, Carmilla, has

been filmed in Technicolor and Technirama

as TO DIE WITH PLEASURE, starring Mel Ferrer, last seen in WORLD, FLESH DEVIL. This is the story of Count Leopold Karnstein and his strange sister Carmilla, who comes to believe herself to be the family's legendary shevampire, Miliarca. Masquerading as Millarca, she kills a maid and then aha, that would be telling Read the story ajid see the

THE

THE

AND THE

movie

As

for

SPACE INVASION OF LAPP-

LAND (from Sweden), with its supermen and super monster (twice as tall as a house) watch for our next issue with further information and fotos!

See, Dracula, we fold you you'd get into trouble ff you left Transylvonial (From HORROR OF DRACULA)

Richord Anderson took

it

IHerally

when

th* dtrMtor called, "CutI" (From CURSE

OF THE FACELESS

MAN)

ISTHEREAMlislltRWlNE!

In

both instances poor Vincent Price

is

obviously the

Fall

Guy

in

these scenes from THE FALL

OF THE

HOUSE OF USHER.

KIDNAPPERS FROM SPACE,

The Ship of Things
with thrilling cargo.
to

Come

looks loaded

collaboration between Charles Nuetzel,

Editor Forrest Ackerrrmn and Specif

Effects Wizard Louis De Witt is under cfmsideration for filming, with Albert

HERCULES IN THE CONQUEST OF ATLANTUS THESUS AND THE MINOTAUR ALADDIN AND THE GIANT GULLIVER'S TRAVELS GOLIATH AND THE GIANT TARZAN THE
. . . .

MAGNIFICENT. 12 TO THE MOON

at the audience)
. . . . .
.

(in crazy Lunavision,

with meteors popping right out of the screen

Nuetzell ("FAMOUS MONSTERS' own cover ace) creating story-board for same. Keep your eye peeled for the Allied Artist production of THE HYPNOTIC EYE Robert Louis Stevenson's SUICIDE CLUB
. .
. .

INSIDE
. .

JOURNEY TO VENUS TO THE 7IH PLANET ... MARS SKYPORT

.

THE MOON JOURNEY

.

18
.

VISITS TO

THE MAID AND THE MARTIAN TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER ("The Girls from Planet 5") ... and THE JOURNEY OF THE
. .
.

JULES VERNE.

THE LAST SECRET (German) THE SECRET OF ETERNAL NIGHT THE ABSENT-MINDED (Russian) PROFESSOR (followup to THE SHAGGY THE DEVIL THE DEVIL DOG) WHEN THE AND THE DEVILISH DAIRY OF DEVIL FEARS TO SLEEP LEVEL 7 A MUMMY MR. ADAM
. .


.
.

VENGEANCE OF THE HANGED

. . .

(Mexican)
old

BOBBIKINS
. . .

(a 14-month
. .
.

baby that talks!) RED SNOW MGM'sTHE VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED THE LEECH-WOMAN TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL THE TESTAMENT OF DR. CORDELIER THE THOUSAND EYES OP DR. MABUSE BLACK ORPHEUS THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS MIRACULOUS HAP. . . .

PENINGS (by Karel "RUR" Capek, Czech) ... A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE

THE MYSTERIOUS HOUSE THE DANCER AND THE (Italian) CITY OF THE THE HANDS OF ORLAC (Mel THE GOLEM (Geo. Pal) THE GHOST TRAIN (Wm. Castle) THE DOOMSDAY MEN UNNATURAL (ALRAUNE) THE TELL-TALE HEART (Poe) ... A TICKET TO TRANAI PHENOMENON THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS THE PROJECTED MAN MONSTER IN MY BLOOD THE SARGASSO MONSTER (HELL AND HIGH WATER) SINVALA KILLER SECRET THE DAY THE ADULTS VANISHED ... A ROCKET FROM FENWICK DIVIDED WE CONQUER ZEX THE SPLIT (Japanese) and
OF USHER VAMPIRE
.

(ghosts in a graveyard!) International's

. .

American-

DEAD

Ferrer)

Here

we have Scarface, trying to beat the wrap.

Famous Mobster of Filmland,

It's

If those aren't

enough

titles to

Chris Lee, our Favorite

from

falling asleep for the next

keep you 40 years, a

English Monster.

real eye-opener

RIP

VAN WINKLE IN THE

SIST CEN-

TURY!

For shamel Bad dinosaurl Oon't you icnow

30

it

isn't polite

to stick out your tenguel (A

JOURNEY TO

TItE

CENTER OF THE EARTH.

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G01.DI{MOR)LOCKS gets her crowning blond glory combed by her creator. Bill Tuttle, head of the MGM Makeup Dept., just befor taking off for the Year 802,701 A.D. in George Pal's personal Ttme
Machine.

MONSTER
THE' IIBENDARV

LON

SPECIAL ARTICLE
J.

BY FORREST

ACKERMAN

WAS THE FACE THAT LAUNCHED A THOUSAND

HIS

SHRIEKS, HIS THE

FORM

THAT RAISED HORROR TO ITS HIGHEST PEAKS

LON CHANEY,
try to

film

historians

make us

believe,

was

born
1,

in

Colorado Springs on April

1886, but

we

will not

be April

fooled!

They pretend that,

geles,

in

Los An-

on
his

the

26th

of

August,

1930,

throat

aflame

with

cancer, he

was taken by

the Grim

Reaper to Volholla; but

better!

we know

Ion Choney never died! So much for the warped imaginotions of those

who would

try

to deceive us and say that a god

can

diet

They

are

the

stone

hearts,

who would deny

of

thot the

power

Wendy's plea to the

fairies could save the life of Peter

Pan;

ond

their

greatest

curse

should be to ban them from the

privilege

of

ever

again

seeing

onother Lon Cbaney picture.

*w
the hidden truth
It was in the eventide of the Dark Ages that a kindly witch met a great magician in

chameleon's skin, and they were married by a gnome-king. Together they sired a wunderIcind, a wondrous kind of changeling child the like of which the mundane world had never known before, and they named this strange-ling L'han Shayn-nii, which in the tongue of the Ancient Ones of the Black Forest meant "the one with face of wax and

body that twists like the vine." For hundreds of years L'han practiced his art of pantomine, and was known by

many names in many places thru the passing centuries while all the while he waited patiently for Motion Pictures to be bom and grow strong enough to record the magic of his mimicry. Then (cleverly) he told producers, publicists, newspaper reporters that his parents could neither hear nor speak, for who would attempt to check on his origin with a Mother and Father who were deafmutes?

By now he was known no longer by his fey-name of L'han Shayn-nii but by his film
name Lon Chaney.
:

as

Soon he would be known in 2000 tongues "The Man of a Thousand Faces."

one man
monster show
early

THE FALSE FACES was one of Chaney's make-up jobs, followed the same year (1919) by his rigorous role as Frog, the contorted beggar, "divinely" healed in MIRACLE MAN. In 4 roles the following year, he was blind in one (the wicked pirate of Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure clas-

THE

TREASURE ISLAND) another, THE PENALTY,

sic.

and

legless in

Midget must be getting

"For Fire Only'' reads The sign, so iweedledee the fired by Echo the Ventrilo-

in which he played a crippled criminal whose body ended in knee-stumps. In 1921 he essayed two Oriental parts, the first that of a Chinaman in Tod Browning's OUTSIDE THE LAW, and another slanteyed menace in BITS OF LIFE with Anna May Wong. 1922 saw him as a Chinese again in SHADOWS, and the same year he was both unwhole of body and mind in FLESH BLOOD, and played a mad scientist and simian beaat-man in A BLIND BAR-

AND

quist in the talking version of

THE

UNHOLY

GAIN.

3.

to

invited Lon to lunch." "I had a hunch this would happen," gasps the all-choked-up character, "when that the choke's on him, he wants his HUNCH BACK, even if he has to tackle the whole NOTRE football team to get it. (Get it? If you can't guess which picture this scene is from, you need do more homework in American Mystery. One thing's for sure: it isn't HUMPhrey Etoogie in THE TREASURE OF SCARY MADREI)
I

Now

DAME

SHOCK, and

In 1923 he shook audiences in once again was a crazed savant, this time in the company of John Gilbert in PARIS SLEEPS.

THE

WHILE

Then

QUASIMODO!
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME!
The
first of his two most celebrated characterizations, and one of his most painstak-

ing and painful. Chaney did more than merely make himself up, he empathized himself into the very valence of Quasimodo, threw himself or grew himself or somehow got himself inside the very soul of the pathetic demented bell-ringer of the Parisian cathedral. The mound of malformed rubber that he attached to his back bent his spine under a weight of 70 pounds. On his chest he wore a breastplate and shoulder pads
similar to those of football tacklers. harness fashioned of leather joined the front and back "armor" in such a manner that he
35

Thtt

Man of A Thousand Faces, with his wll-M|uippod many wigs which halpod him flip his fans.
could not have stood erect under any circumstances. Over this cumbersome and uncomfortable foundation he wore a rubber suit, tinted flesh color. Tufta of animal hair were affixed to chest and back. Modeling putty molded his face into a misshapen horror, and a set of false teeth worn over his own accentuated his repulsive appearance. An uncombed bird's-nest of a wig topped his disguise, which he donned daily over a period of almost 3 months! Grueling, ghouling! Blind in one membrane - covered eye, tonque darting nervously in and out of his ugly mouth like a serpent's fang, he scuttled like a beetle in the dark corridors of the cathedral or crouched with his silent friends, the sculptured gargoyles of the parapets. Crazed but kindly unless tormented, at last he revolted against the crowd who had

Pandora's Box of McrfcoMip,

jeered at his cruel torture, and scalded his enemies with torrents of molten metal cascading from red-hot pots from on high in his eyrie sanctuary. Charles Laughton later played Quasimodo, and very well and, still later, Anthony
;

effective Modo named Quasi; but neither interpretation had the stamp of authority of Chaney's.

Quinn was an

the phantom strikes

1925

was Lon's top horror

THE MONSTER,

year, with wherein he played Dr.

Ziska, who gained his victims by arranging auto accidents on a dark and lonely stretch of road near his underground laboratory. top horror year with his dual role in
. . .

Tod Browning's

UNHOLY THREE


. . .

with his characterization as the mind-

warped one of THE TOWER OF LIES. and then His crowning achievement as the mad
. . .

musician imagined by Gaston Leroux, the deranged organist "whose face was so hideous that he was forced to haunt the innermost depths of the Paris Opera." Roberta
O'Toole, one critic who admitted "I shrieked right out loud in the theater and buried my head unashamedly on my husband's chest when Mary Philbin slipped the mask off Chaney as he sat playing the organ," described the impact of his portrayal in these
indelible terms:

His outraged visage was horror incarnate: bulging, bloodshot eyes fatigued
with violet semicircles beneath them: the grotesquely exaggerated mounds of the cheekbones; the hooked-up, flaring, porcine nostrils; the rotted, jagged teeth, like the rim of an enameled tin can top opened with a ragged knife; the scraggly strands of dead gray hair

hanging

like

incredible

soggy serpentine from the pyramid of a head.

.

Just recently, horror authority Robert Bloch reported: "When I was an 8-year-old
I

saw Lon Chaney

fear.

in

THE PHANTOM OF

Yui Chaney OS "White of WEST OF ZANZIBAR.

Voodo

THE OPERA and

naked

gazed upon the face of Within the past year I attended

a revival of the same film. And despite the flickering flaws of this dated melodrama, the

Lon Chaney with the 4th partner (Hairy Carey) of

THE

UNHOLY

3.

scene where Chaney is unmasked exerted the same monstrous magic upon a modern audience." And the thought may well have crossed the nostalgic mind of Ray Bradbury that if the great artist Gustave Dore had painted the picture of Dorian Gray, and Victor

Frankenstein endowed it with life, if would have been Lon Chaney as The Phantom.

watch your step

Today we say, "Is it a bird? Is it a plane? But 35 years ago, it's at the height of his power, the warning cry was "Is it a spider? Watch out! Don't step on it it may be Lon Chaney !" And with good reason, for anything that crept or crawled across the silver screen (or even flew, as in the case of the

No

Superman!" when Lon Chaney was

bat-man of

LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT)

was quite

Make
in

liable to be L.C., the Master of Believe. In 1926 he played a Jekyll-Hyde type role

and, covering one eye with a coating of collodion, simulated a cataract to play the part of a semi-blind outcast TO in

THE BLACKBIRD THE ROAD

MANDALAY.

-i'-'-??^^'-'A'r^t-'-*'-'^''-'>''

Chaney

(left)

as Dr. Ziska in THE

MONSTER

listens to

bit of

badvice (thaf s advice that ain't good).

WU;

In '27 he played two Chinese roles in MR. an armless freak in THE whose feet took the place of his hands, complete to throwing knives with deadly accuracy with his toes; and a human vampire

UNKNOWN

in Tod Browning's LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT, wherein his face was bone-white with eyes popping like olive pits out of hardboiled eggs and teeth that resembled the ends of ivory spikes. And the last film he ever made, THE UN-

ple. Dainful flesh, with small pig-like eyes"; and Tweedledee, a dwarf just a shade over 2 feet tall, whose "little round, shoe-button eyes could flash and his soft, chubby face writhe into a terrible mask, suddenly transforming his expression into that of a murderer." The audiences of 1930 were electrified when the "Man of a Thousand Faces" spoke in four different voices during the

same

film.

^HOLY THREE, was

silent hit

a talkie remake of his which Tod Browning had directed from the book by Tod Robbins. In THE UNHOLY THREE Chaney was a sideshow ventriloquist in the company of "a long, lizard-like figure" called The Human Skeleton; Madame Fatima, "a mountain of pur-

the

man beneath

the monster
of the scary

Such was the reel Lon Chaney, the star and t^e scarry. Had he lived

there seems iittle doubt that he would have become the monster of FRANKENSTEIN, the unseen menace of INVISIBLE, Im-ho-tep the 3000 year old and, instead of Bela Lugosi, would himself have played the role he created in MIDNIGHT in the sound version of it called OF VAMPIRE. What of the real Lon Chaney? A biographer, George Mitchell, tells us:

THE MUMMY,

LONDON

AFTER

MARK

THE

ful,

His movements were quick but gracehe was high-strung, even nervous,

and somewhat grim. His dark eyes, deeply lined face, and cynical mouth, made him seem hard-boiled. He despised weakness, and believed in decency.

"Step into

my

parlor said the spider to the fly."

It

happened on THE ROM) TO MANDALAY.

Chaney

Like Father, Like Son. Family Cut-up, Lon

JR.

He was the second of U children. Due to the bedridden state of his ill Mother he ivas withdrawn from school in the Atk grade to help care for her. In his teens he began his theatrical career as a stagehand and scene painter. He was married when he was 19, and the folloiving year was bom his only child: Creighton Tidl Chaney, known today as Lon Chaney, Jr. of MAN, MUMMY, etc. fame. The first picture on which he got screen credit was POOR JAKE'S DEMISE in 1913. In 1915. besides appearing in 25 pictures, he directed 6 shorts, the last being THE CHIMNEY'S SECRET, which he also ivrote as well as acted in. Once he became ivorld-famous and was besieged for interviews, he became retiring and declared: "Between pic-

WOLF

tures there

is

no Lon Chaney."

chaney 's secret

Between pictures there is no Lon Chaney there is the clue, the reason we have not seen a new Lon Chaney film since they say he died 30 years ago. He has been resting, giving his son and actors like Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee a chance. What is 30 years between pictures to a man who has lived for hundreds? Undoubtedly he is waiting for just the right

part, the greatest

in

hearts and

monster role of them all, which to make his comeback appearance. Comeback? Lon Chaney has never been away, in the minds and memories of those

who knew

his greatness. Today he should appear to be about 75 years old. Be kind to the next elderly gentleman you meethe may be LON CHANEY.

Jamsft Cagney, lowar holf, ra-enacts famous scane from of Lon Cfaanoy's life, MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES.

PHANTOM OF

THE OPERA, abovo.

In

tho story
si

a complete

list

of Lon Choney's film qppenrances

ACE OF HEARTS ALAS AND ALACK ALL FOR PEGGY ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT ALMOST AN ACTRESS ANYTHING ONCE

AN IDYLL OF THE HILLS

THE BIG CITY BITS OF LIFE

THE BLACKBIRD A BLIND BARGAIN*

BLOODHOUNDS OF THE NORTH BOBBIE OF THE BALLET BONDAGE BOUND ON THE WHEEL BROADWAY LOVE A BROADWAY SCANDAL BY THE
SUN'S RAYS

THE LAMB, THE WOMAN, THE WOLF LAUGH CLOWN LAUGH THE LIE THE LIGHT IN THE DARK LIGHTS AND SHADOWS THE LION, THE LAMB, THE MAN LON OF THE MOUNTAINS LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT

M
MAID OF THE MIST A MAN'S COUNTRY MARK OF CAIN THE MENACE OF CARLOTTA THE MILLIONAIRE PAUPERS A MINER'S ROMANCE THE MIRACLE MAN
A MOTHER'S ATONEMENT

THE CHIMNEY'S SECRET

THE DESERT BREED
DOLLY'S SCOOP

MOCKERY THE MONSTER

MR.

DISCORD & HARMONY

A DOLL'S HOUSE

MOUNTAIN JUSTICE

WU

N
THE EMBEZZLER THE EMPTY GUN THE END OF THE FEUD
THE FALSE FACES THE FASCINATION OF THE FLEUR DE LIS
I
I

THE NEXT CORNER A NIGHT OF THRILLS NOMADS OF THE NORTH THE OCTAVE OF CLAUDIUS' THE OLD COBBLER
OLIVER TWIST

, I

FAST COMPANY FATHER AND THE BOYS FIRES OF REBELLION THE FLASHLIGHT FLESH AND BLOOD THE FORBIDDEN ROOM FOR THOSE WE LOVE

THE OUBIETTE OUTSIDE THE GATE OUTSIDE THE LAW

PAID IN ADVANCE THE PENALTY THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA THE PINE'S REVENGE THE PIPER'S PRICE THE PIPES OF PJ^N PLACE BEYOND THE WINDS POOR JAKE'S DEMISE THE PRICE OF SILENCE

THE GIFT SUPREME THE GILDED SPIDER THE GIRL IN THE CHECKERED COAT THE GIRL OF THE NIGHT GIRL WHO DARED THE GRAND PASSION THE GRASP OF GREED THE GRIND THE GRIP OF JEALOUSY

QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER

QUITS

H HE WHO GETS SLAPPED HELL MORGAN'S GIRL HER BOUNTY HER ESCAPE HER GRAVE MISTAKE HER LIFE'S STORY THE HONOR OF THE MOUNTED THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
|

THE RANCH ROMANCE RED MARGARET MOONSHINER THE RESCUE

RICHELIEU

REMEMBER MARY MAGDALEN

THE RIDDLE GAWNE THE ROAD TO MANDALAY

THE SCARLET LETTER THE SEA URCHIN SHADOWS THE SHOCK THE SIN OF OLGA BRANDT STAR OF THE SEA STEADY COMPANY STRONGER THAN DEATH

THUNDER THE TOWER OF LIES THE TRAGEDY OF WHISPERING CREEK THE TRAP TREASURE ISLAND TRIUMPH THE TRUST
U

VENGEANCE OF THE WEST

THE VIOLIN MAKER
VIRTUE
ITS

VICTORY

VOICES OF THE CITY

OWN REWARD

W
WEST OF ZANZIBAR THE WICKED DARLING WHEN BEARCAT WENT DRY WHERE EAST IS EAST WHERE THE FOREST ENDS WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS WHILE
PARIS SLEEPS
*

TANGLED HEARTS IT TO THE MARINES THAT DEVIL BATEESE THREADS OF FATE

TELL

UNDER THE SHADOW THE UNHOLY THREE (Silent) THE UNHOLY THREE (Talking) THE UNKNOWN THE UNLAWFUL TRADE

Same Film

That time Chanay took o trip to En^ smo' hours, and now wo know whf

'tertainment in tho

wee

HAUNTS Upon A

Time there was a spook,

spirit

phantom, on ectoplasmic
other otherworldly wraiths

and ten
got together

who

with producer William Castle and made a

movie.

Meet your

hosts:

ijOSVE
F/y&iis

mm

mitlWiE^y

J'ioatini)
'

C/utcking

fiend

Fhm'mg
Skeleton

Hands

'

'

9. /

hfauvoner and ^fsti

hanging

Her Lover

ghoulumbio studios
does
it

again!

Columbia has come up with a shocker to

scare Whistler's Mother off her rocker!
"' -"-

Dr.Zorhi

Last year you screamed your lungs out in fear when THE TINGLER got loose in the theater and you could actually feel it vibrating beneath your seat. Now (if you can take it) there's a greater thrill in store for you the first film in Phantoscope with Ilbisiono!

utii

I'm Emily Ghost,

and

know

all

words, they should never speak

about etiquetto. Children should be seen and not hurt; until they are spookan to then they should sereami

13

GHOSTS!

To mastermind this "macabre" melodrama, Columbia commissioned the worldfearless medium, Madame Sylvania Tranz, to go to The House on Haunted Hill and obtain the services of William Castle. Madame Tranz was never heard from again, but shortly thereafter (in the 19 March 60 issue, to be exact) The Saturday Evening Ghost featured an article on the karloffian
famous
Mr. Castle. They called him "The Master of Movie Horror." He once aspired to replace Lon Chaney as a horror actor instead he's become #1 horror producer.

the gripe
of wraiths
Castle's latest bloodcurdling concoction is action-filled seance-fiction film of menacing spirits of the dead who threaten to frighten the living out of their skins. It all begins wheh Cyrus Zorba, played

an

^'m Dr. Zorba, Hie

Phantom

of the Operot/on.

Ten-agar Buck Zoriia looks forward to a broakfast of Ghost Tocutles.

first-glass

by Donald Woods, inherits a mansion from and recently dead uncle. There is one stipulation to this bequeathment, and that is that the professor (he's Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Los Angeles Museum) must take possession of the house immediately. Little does he dream that it is he and his loved ones who may become the possessed!
his rich, eccentric

The Zorba estate turns out to be a huge rambling ramshackle place that no selfrespecting ram would stay in unless shackled, but it is worth a few sheekelsso Cy, his
wife (Rosemary De Camp), 10-year-old son Buck (Charles Herbert) and attractive teenage daughter Medea (Jo Morrow) move in. Along with the house goes Elaine Zacharides (Margaret Hamilton), a combination housekeeper-maid who looks like Death warmed over ... but not very hot. Her face and mannerisms are enough to scare a ghost out of its ectoplasm.

the ghosts walk

Hardly are the Zorbas settled in the house than they discover it's haunted.

of

The walls echo to the ghastly screams an invisible women. disembodied head floats down the

hall.

Clutching hands emerge from behind

a bedstead.

A-

This tamer of wild beasts went to his head.

in

13

GHOSTS was

such a neckspert on reading between the lions that

it

A
A
its

hanging woman's vision is seen. skeleton enveloped in flames rattles

bones!

And always and always

of the late Uncle his kith and kin

the giant portrait

Zorba hypnotically draws toward it. His dead eyes dominate them with their penetrating stare. Dead eyes? Completely dead? One nite, during a terrific wind and rain storm, young Medea sees an apparition of her uncle outside her window pane. His undead eyes almost drive her insane with terror. It is only the cold blasts of the storm that chill her, or is it an icy breath from beyond the grave? Rarely has a young girl been challenged to be so brave.

the challenge

from beyond
After an especially bad nite, one of recurrent horrors during which no one in the house gets any sleep as weird moans and groans aeem to come from the very walls and shadowy shapes materialize from darkened comers, Cyrus Zorba makes a visit to his attorney, Ben Rush (Martin Milner). "Ben," he says, "this frankly is getting the best of us. My wife is becoming a nervous wreck, and the atmosphere of that place is nothing for the kids."

Zacherly, and

"How would yoo (ike to be Ghost #14?' suggests haunting housekeeper Baine Zachorides. "I know maylM I could arrange it for you."

Thot Big One is the skeleton of o prehistoric Mastodon. He mastodon something frightful to lose all his flesh and get mixed up with 13 6HOSTSI

"You don't look so good yourself," observes the lawyer, Ben advises Cy to pack up and depart, no legacy is worth the price of peace of mind that he's having to pay. Cy is inclined to agree with him, but decides to stay one more nite in order to participate in a seance which the spiritualistic housekeeper has volunteered to conduct. Not since the days of 13TH GUEST
and

THE THE CAT AND THE CANARY

has

there been such a hair-raising seance. It could even be called heir-raising, for Cyrus Zorba himself goes into a trance, during which he speaks with the voice of a zombie and intones a terrifying message:

"One of you

will die tonight!"

WHO?
It

may

be

YOU!

But that would make 14 ghosts, wouldn't

it? "It's alright to be scared to death by my gimmicks," says Horror King Castle, "but better stay alive so you can see how I top myself in my next monsterama!" Man, that Castle! He must have discov-

ered Aladdin's Magic

inGENIEous

tricks he

Lamp, the number of has up his slave!

IsS.

'

) IVA \l

kk.

1^^,

m
'^

His 13

GHOSTS ghoul

friend just

gov* him th eeU shoulder.

This

Man

Friday

was asked

for a

Monster and by Monday he had one Built!

Ki)W!Ppt|!iiH"'

couldn't put

GUSO, Son of Roblnl Hobifi's Son Gniiol Looks liko All tho thb Crvckod Mggln a d bock togothor again.

Klim'i

Hoor< and

All

tho King's

Mon
43

eyes crossed when he saw Chris with onlyone eye staring out of a blue face, his bald head cracked wide open in several places and congealed blood matted on his chin like a
goatee.

"Son," managed Corman, "you've sold me." Robinson's houi-s in darkened theaters, studying the disguises of Chaney Sr., Karloff and Lugosi, had paid off: he had a job, turning himself into a monster.

cool creature
His first assignment was to build a huge snow-beast, a monster that could function even at 7 degrees below zero which temperature it was the first day they began shooting on THE BEAST OF THE HAUNTED CAVE. Filming took place at Deadwood, South Dakota, and that's where "Humphrass" made his debut before the cameras, aitho he was constructed in an apartment in Hollywood. "Humphrass" was the name by which Chris affectionately referred to his towering 7 foot terror with its 11' long arms. Interviewed in your editor's Horrorwood home, young Robinson answered for me the one question which I knew was nearest and dearest to my reader' hearts, namely: How did he build the monster?

Chris complains: "This always happens whenever I'm on my way to the mortuary and stick my head inside a screamlined automobile to ask the tomb

of day."

Meet Chris Robinson, Hollywood's youngmonster-maker. Don't be nervous step right up and shake his bloody hand it's only tomato juice. Of course, know it's just ketchup oozing from between his lips, but the receptionist at American-International Studios didn't when young Chris turned up for the first time at the outer office. He phoned Martin Varno, who was on the lot writing THE
est

one creature,
coming up
"Well," said Chris, "to one plywood base I added a thin aluminum stripping to create the skeletal form. I then covered the skeleton over with chicken wire. After that I wrapped it in sheets and muslin, sort of like I was making a mummy. I had to waterproof the body because in this case it was going to be exposed to snow, so I soaked it with several coats of vinyl paint.

WE

NIGHT OF THE BLOOD-BEAST

at the

made an appointment to see producer Gene Corman. "Will you give me 2 minutes of your time to look at a 2-hour make-up job of mine?" he'd asked on the telephone, and the answer had come back:
time, and

"OK."

"The head was fashioned out of quarter inch aluminum wire, with steel wire wrapped aroond that and then once again muslin forming a sort of shroud. At this point my pal Humphrass looked something like Glaude Rains did from time to time in THE INVIS-

producer turns
poleface
Gorman's tan turned an abominable snow white when Chris Robinson walked, or
rather shambled, into his oflRce. It was only Girl Friday ran out of the door shrieking and didn't come back 'til after the weekend. Gorman's

IBLE MAN.
"More aluminum wire went into the construction of his jaws and teeth, and I topped the whole concept off with tasty mounds of putty and patches of crepe hair. '"The final touch you'll never believe. I used that Xmas decoration called 'angel hair' to give him a cobwebby appearance It worked beautifully. Even fooled some spiders."
!

Wednesday but the producer's

'

Monster and

Its

Maker, as Chris "prattlfles"

his

creation.

HumphrasSr the Cotton Again I

Candy Creature,

Strikes

Aluminum wire forms the jaw ond teeth

of creepy-

the birth of

erawly creation thot Cris constructs.

a beast
Humphrass actually had a very humble beginning. Microacopic in size, lacking wings for flight and legs for locomotion, he was a very weird 3ort of mixed-up fly called the Wingless Hanging Fly when Chris ran across a description of him in a book he borrowed from the library. "I wanted to create something different." Chris explained to me, "so I looked thru many volumes on insects, lizards and various forms of animal life 'til my eye was attracted by this Lon Chaney type fly. Chaney, as you'll recall, was a great one for going around without legs and arms and things so I got inspired to create this real creepy-crawly Thing." And Chris was mighty successful, too, as word has just come thru that his picture has been selected to be one of those shown behind the Iron Curtain. Maybe, when the Russians see Humphrass, they'll decide it's safer to stay in Siberia than risk coming to
America and meeting up with

r
f
^^r

P
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THE BEAST FROM THE HAUNTED CAVE!

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SCRIPTION

No other picture has been so frequently requested in the past 2 years by 100s of readers as a fulllength or close-up still of THE THING from Another World. But even Editor Ackerman, in his 30-year collec1000s of stills, doesn't have a single foto of THE THING, Can VOU produce it for us? This request 'be repeated on this page until someone steps forth and claims their choice of A PERPETUAL SUBor TWENTY-FIVE DOLURS in cash for supplying us with the shot that will fill this spot!
Can We Capture THE THING? Watch this space!

TrOM
EXCLUSIVEI PHYLIIS FARKAS SAYS "YESI" After 4 years of brain-washing Phyllis is about to become the bride of FAMOUS MONSTERS' publisher Jim Worren. A Halloween is planned. Until then, Phyllis will be feeding Warren plenty of vitaminsso he won't look "all run down."

/fAolJslCRC-UeMEMBERS

wedding

OH

BROTHER) GEORGIE WALINSKI sends

us this picture of his brother, taken just as Georgie grabbed a copy of FAMOUS MONSTERS from out of Big Etrother's cage.

"EYE'LL BE SEEING
siastic

up

artist

YOU" says enthureader and amateur make* PAUL BASTEN, as he favors

us with a photo of another Boston creation. Dr. Acula thinks this Is the Bast One yet from Paul, who was also featured in last issue's SCREAMS

pages.

BOBBY COCKE
ILLINOIS
TOM DAYLE r"ie*GO
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KANSAS
RANDY FAYHE TOrtKi
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MARYLAND
SSAN WILLARD

CHARLES MARSHALL

LESTER KILIAN

STEVEN SHIMBERG

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ALAN SNVDER

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