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The House of Hammer No. 1, 1976

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An engaging read could be found in each issue of The House of Hammer (later changing titles to House of Horror then Halls of Horror) edited by Dez Skinn. With illustrated adaptations of Hammer movies such as Dracula and Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter, and the host-slanted Van Helsing's Terror Tales to round out the first issue, there was still room for well-written articles, usually themed around the main adaptation. While the original thought was to only cover Hammer's oeuvre, the studio's production mill ran too slow to fill out each issue, so horror movies beyond Hammer were covered. Eye-catching covers by Brian Lewis and other artists, and article writers including Tony Crawley, John Brosnan, and Denis Gifford, made each issue a satisfying reading experience.

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Monsters of the Movies No. 8, 1975

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Here's my slightly waterlogged copy of Monsters of the Movies issue 8. Gives it a nice monsterkid patina, don't you think? Peter Cushing, Hammer, Amicus, Jonathan Frid, and the Seven Golden Vampires light up this issue. So jump in, the water is fine.

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House of Dracula (1945) Pressbook

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Here’s an unsung horror movie for you. Sure, show up at a Monster Bash convention and you’ll trip over Universal Studios acolytes ten deep, but outside of such conventions,  House is mostly empty of tenants.  But it shouldn’t be. While Universal capitalizes on the Dracula name, it’s the Wolf Man who steals the show in this movie and in House of Frankenstein. I still don’t understand why the “hunchback” is portrayed as a monster. Her character’s backstory would have made an interesting third entry as House of the Hunchback But the Wolf Man’s in It Too. Here’s the pressbook. I love the First Aid for Shock promotion gimmick as well as the other showmanship ideas. Following the pressbook is the multi-page admats insert showing the various-sized newspaper ads.

 

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PictureGoer No. 333, 1937

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Here's another issue of Picturegoer magazine, courtesy of Professor Kinema. In this issue, No. 333 from 1937, the standouts are: nifty period advertisements; an open letter to actor William Powell, from the editor, congratulating him on his lucrative film contract while condemning the increase in movie theater ticket prices; Max Breen lauds over Maureen O'Sullivan; women dare challenge the pants-wearing in Men Wear the Pants in Pictureland; and Leave It to Anne explains how to keep that slim Hollywood figure the starlets have.

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Picture Show No. 176, 1922

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From Professor Kinema's Archives comes this 1922 issue of Picture Show. Page 9's In the Early Days of Pictures provides interesting reading: "Today the production of a single picture is a costly item requiring an army of carpenters, scene painters, electricians, and others, who are frequently at work at the studios day and night." And in Ask the Picture Show on page 23, a reader writes in to complain about "vocals introduced into the programme of a picture theatre he recently visited."

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PictureGoer No. 99, 1933

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Courtesy of Professor Kinema's Archives comes this 1933 issue of the British Picturegoer magazine. Aside from the fun of seeing the period ads and getting a glimpse of Hollywood glamour circa 1933, of particular interest to readers of From Zombos' Closet are pages 14 and 15. Did you know that King Kong stood 50 feet high? Or that each of his eyes was 10 inches long?

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Monster World No. 6, 1965

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Here's what I want for Christmas. No, not the magazine! Got that. But every cool send-away-for item in the magazine! In doubles! That's what I want Santa to bring me. While I'm waiting, like the cover says, "Have a Cool Yule" (with or without a ghoul is fine).

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Fantasy Magazine Vol. 5 No. 3, 1935

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Courtesy of the Professor Kinema's Archives comes another issue of Fantasy Magazine, sent to the Professor by Forrest J. Ackerman some time ago. In this issue, Robert Block writes up a satire, FJA writes another Scientificinematorially Speaking, and Julius Schwartz puts things in focus with The Science Fiction Eye.

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