The Countess Is Counting on You!

 Scary Books, Kiddies!

Countess Dracula. By Michel Parry. Beagle Books, 1971. “Based on the screenplay of the film.”

As you can tell, this paperback’s covers had a lot of flexing. I bought it at a thrift store on August 24, 1984, and subsequently used black magic marker to try and cover up all the cracks.

This restrained, aloof tome is the novelization of a sensationalistic 1971 film of the same name.

Of course, what everybody remembers from this movie is not the poster, but a certain image from elsewhere in the film, as reproduced below:

Obligatory "fangs for the mammaries" joke here ....

See you on Friday, fellow nibblers!

  

There's No Age Like a Morgue-Age!

Yup, the second of three new Halloween-music comps for this year.

01 - Gonna Go Down (To See My Baby) - The Rainbows - 1962  (1:59)

02 - Blood - Zro4 - 1980  (3:25)

03 - Brecon Beacons - Supergrass - 2023  (2:53)

04 - Frankensteiner Polka - Eddie Lawrence - 1958  (2:20)

05 - Nightmares - Art August and the Dorian-Aires - 1965  (2:09)

06 - Supernature - Cerrone - 1977  (3:52)

07 - Barnabas - The Merrymen of Barbados - 1968  (3:47)

08 - My Girlfriend's Ghost - The Oil Tasters - 1982  (3:11)

09 - The Birds Is Coming - Louis Jones with the Bobby Scott Orchestra - 1963  (2:04)

10 - The Hearse - Paul Chaplain - 1967  (1:26)

11 - Boo! Boo! Boo! Here Comes the Loch Ness Monster - The Connecticut Collegians - 1934  (2:23)

12 - Zombies Dance in the Night - Alberta Jordan - 1956  (2:27)

13 - The Invisible Thing - The Casual Three - 1958  (2:45)

14 - Do the Standing Still (Classics Illustrated) - Table - 1977  (2:59)

15 - Demon Lover - Lyn Cornell - 1960  (2:58)

16 - Nightmare - Billy Sills - 1958  (2:31)

17 - Zombie Stomp - Billy Gholston - 1963  (2:22)

18 - Haunted House - The Other Side - 1985  (2:54)

19 - Tombstone - Johnny Darcy - 1958  (2:49)

20 - Life After Death - Funboy Five - 2009  (3:12)

21 - Cannibal Dolls - Land of Giants - 1982  (3:29)

22 - Did You Ever See My Ghoul - Rod Derrett - 1965  (1:53)

23 - Graveyard Paradise - 126 - 1967  (2:59)

24 - Graveyard - Leroy Bowman and the Arrows - 1958  (2:07)

25 - Year Without a Halloween - Lugosi's Morphine - 2006  (2:48)

26 - Halloween Is All Around Us - Golden Records - 2012  (1:22)

27 - The Wind and More - Roky Erickson - 1979  (4:07)

THIS LINK GOOD FOR SEVEN DAYS.

Like they say, you might check in, but you won't walk out under your own power!

PERMANENT LINK.

See ya next time, fellow pumpkinheads!

   

Stay Chilled!

From 1984 ...

Believe it or not, there was a time when Stephen King books were not full of overstuffed cultural references and stream-of-consciousness rants.  They had plots which ticked along, and the things actually had endings!

Well, maybe the ones from the Eighties and earlier had all those things, but perhaps the versions that got published in those Olden Tymes had been judiciously trimmed?  Comparing the shorter version of The Stand first published awith the mound of excess that was later released as the "uncut" version, a lot NEEDED to be cut.

[editor's note: this blog post was once four times as long before editing]

See you Monday!

  

An Instant Paperback About the King of Monsters!

 Scary Books, Kiddies!

 

The Frankenscience Monster.  By Forrest J Ackerman.  Ace Books, 1969.  Cover painting by Verne Tossey.

            Rushed into print soon after Karloff’s passing, this fine little paperback is one of a long line of “instant books.”  Of course in ye olden days “instant” took awhile.  Everyone’s favorite “uncle monster” died on February 2, 1969.  According to Ackerman’s preface, “Farewell to the Master,” FJA got the OK from Donald Wollheim of Ace Books on March 7.

            This is a worshipful tribute to the gentleman of horror.  The book is an anthology of salutes and reminiscences from the likes of Chaney, Lee, Bloch, Bradbury, Glut, and many others.

            This is a fine production by “the world’s biggest sci-fi fan,” back when a sobriquet like that meant something.

            We salute you, Henry Pratt, and you also, Ackermonster!  See you on Friday, fellow Fiends!

 

Still Milkin' the Munsters!

Yup, we STILL haven't finished presenting ALL of the 1965 MUNSTERS coloring book!

Say!  Shouldn't we call this page "BOO-gle practice"?

The lame-o illustrated above is a guy who met Marilyn at a costume party and offered to walk her home.

How apt that the above image is THE LAST PAGE of the coloring book!  However, I cannot promise that you've seen the very last of this tome .... but it WON'T be on Wednesday.  

Come back to see just WHAT it is!

  

Fun Halloween Pastiches

I think this guy did a good job of emulating various authors ....

This is from the September 1971 Playboy.  I read it for the articles!  See you Monday.