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JM Cozzoli

A horror and movie fan with a blog. Scary.

First Men in the Moon (1964) Pressbook

Here's the pressbook for First Men in the Moon, another memorable Ray Harryhausen effects movie. Of course, CGI makes it all look very easy these days. While the science is off, the art direction is imaginative and the movie is fun to watch. Thanks to ZC reader Terry Michitsch for requesting this one: I thought I had posted it years ago. Yup, my organizing skills are awful and my closet is too big.

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Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)
British Pressbook

I saw Dr. Terror's House of Horrors on the big screen when it first hit theaters in the U.S. I was nine. It scared me. I avoided shrubs and bushes for a long time after that. 

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Castle of Frankenstein Issue 24, 1974

An interview with Boris Karloff, part two of an interview with Roger Corman, The Evil of Frankenstein, and an interview with monster maker Roy Ashton keep this issue of CoF humming. And, of course, there's the Frankenstein TV Guide to help monsterkids plan ahead if they should stay up or not to catch the latest creature-feature on the boob tube. CoF jumps to 85 cents this issue, due to increasing printing costs. Yikes!

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The Monster Times Issue 46, 1976

Issue 46 of The Monster Times is infused with the vampire count's lineage. With Dracula coverage in movies, television, comics, and a Christopher Lee interview, you can't go wrong for the then price of 75 cents. A pleasant tour of Transylvania and a primer on Vlad the Impaler puts the blush in your cheeks, too. For a dead guy, he sure gets a lot of lively coverage.

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The Monster Times Issue 45 (1976)

Issue 45 of The Monster Times has Horror Themes for the Taping, an interview with John Carradine, the Teletype and Trek Talk, and coverage on Bug! and Jaws mania. For horror comics fans, Atlas' Monsters and Heroes gives a good rundown on their horrific comics. Enjoy.

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Horror Hotel (1960) Pressbook

The City of the Dead (although I prefer the more sensational U.S. title, Horror Hotel) was a staple for horror television back in the black and white days. Milton Subotsky rewrote the script and produced it, so this pretty much makes it the first Amicus production. And a good one it is, too. The poster art is killer.

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Castle of Frankenstein No. 20, 1973

Fellow Zombos' Closet denizen Matthew Banks was super enough to send over some PDFs from the Internet Archive for Castle of Frankenstein. (Thanks!) They are posting a lot of monster mags for posterity (you'll see quite a few from ZC, too, with due credit of course; unlike some bloggers who simply grab my scans). But the Internet Archive doesn't capture the magazines in stunning horrific color like ZC does 🙂 Anyhow, the PDF quality is poor (though there are other formats you can download), so here's the Comic reader version instead:   Download Castle of Frankenstein Issue 20

In this issue of CoF, the Ray Harryhausen interview concludes, Vault of Horror gets buried in coverage, and The Frankenstein TV Movie Guide gives the lowdown on what horrors you could see on the small screen…maybe…depending on when it was aired. Of course, we just stream everything and binge watch now. We are so spoiled. There's also lots of letters coverage and book reviews. (And for more magazines to read late at night, under the bedsheets, go to the magazine morgue.) Special thanks to Matthew Banks for reminding me to get the rest of the CoF and The Monster Times magazines posted. Your wish is my command!)

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