It's the Time for Gory Musical Glory!

To wrap up the glories of Halloween, let's go out with a *blorp* and a *squish*, wiht a new Halloween comp!

The photos were taken Halloween 1963 at the White House with JFK and kids -- Track 19 is a reference to "Something to Tide You Over" in 1982's Creepshow.  The performers of Track 23 are no relation to the TV show, except in name.

 01 - Somebody's Watching Thriller (Michael Jackson vs Rockwell) - DJ Schmolli - 2019  (3:49)

02 - Just Another Halloween - The Mutts - 1985  (2:14)

03 - Irving - Johnny Brandon and Irving - 1958  (2:35)

04 - Sneakyville - Secession - 1987  (3:42)

05 - Grim Reaper - The Twelfth Night - 1965 (1:54)

06 - Love in the Cemetery - Lord Kitchener - 1962  (3:28)

07 - Living in a Coffin - Lost Cherrees - 1984  (1:43)

08 - The Raven - Jackie Brooks - 1956  (2:51)

09 - Frankenstein Again - The Lurkers - 1985  (3:59)

10 - Dis-Gorilla (Part 1) - Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots - 1977  (2:57)

11 - The Omen - Shattered Faith - 1983  (2:09)

12 - Minnie the Moocher at the Morgue - Smiley Burnette - 1935  (3:02)

13 - Munsters Theme (live) - The Deadbeats - 1978  (1:51)

14 - Teach Me How to Rock and Roll - The Creepies - 1975  (3:11)

15 - The Robot Walk - Tony Alamo - 1964  (2:44)

16 - The Lakeview Man - The Rainmakers - 1987  (3:00)

17 - 30 Foot Bride - The Tinglers - 1959  (2:07)

18 - Witchcraft Love - Richard Starr - 1964  (2:16)

19 - Deep Black Sea - Left for Dead - 2006  (2:54)

20 - Polka Dotted Poliwampus - Clint Miller - 1958  (2:10)

21 - Flesh to Flesh - Lamont - 1988  (3:50)

22 - Split Personality - Ronn Cummins - 1964  (3:15)

23 - King Kong - Groovie Ghoulies - 1989  (2:10)

24 - Halloween 9 - Stevo In Yr Stereo - 2024  (9:13)

The biggest excitement is saved for last!  Track 24 is by my old friend and fellow Mazeppite, Stevo In Yr Stereo, who concocted this truly ghoulish (yet lighthearted) mashup.  Find tons of delightful musical bemusements at siysradio.com.

 See you round the graveyard, kiddies!

THIS LINK GOOD FOR THREE DAYS.

https://www.filefactory.com/file/nkouxkvmxho/MA-190.rar

See you on Monday, assuming you survive this night of frights!!!

 

Number One in a Creepy Old Series!

 

Scary Books,

Kiddies!

 

 The Werewolf of London.  By Carl Dreadstone.  Berkley Medallion Books, 1977.

            “Carl Dreadstone” was a house name used by Berkley for these Universal Monsters tie-in paperbacks.  According to the online Sci-Fi Encyclopedia, these monster books were written by Ramsey Campbell and Walter Harris.

             This one is by Harris.  But like the rest, it has an introduction by Ramsey Campbell, describing the film and the lack of fan affection it has attracted.  I agree that part of the film’s lack of charisma is due to Henry Hull’s semi-wooden demeanor.  But overall, this film is simply overshadowed by the operatic madness of the cycle begun in 1941 with the inimitable Lon Chaney, Jr as the tortured Sir Lawrence Talbot.

            But it’s awfully nifty to notice, at the eight-minute and twenty-five-minute point in the film, Glendon uses video surveillance to see who's at his laboratory door, signaled by a flashing light.  Talk about before his time!

             Back to the novel—it’s a nice touch to suggest that the Yeti of the Himalayan peaks might be not a hominid, but a lycanthrope.  After all, who knows what is howling and yowling out there? 

            I bought this paper-bound beast on July 9, 1977.  The title page says, “Adapted from the screenplay by John Colton.  Based on an original story by Robert Harris.”  And it’s narrated in the first person by the doomed Dr Wilfrid Glendon.

            But it’s not a strict adaptation.  As somebody in Wikipedia says, “Rather than turning into a werewolf, killing Yogami, and then being shot by Sir Thomas, Glendon decides to cooperate with Yogami and they both attempt to control their transformations through hypnotism. However the plan fails, the hypnotist is killed, and Glendon and Yogami both transform and fight to the death. Glendon wins, killing Yogami, and returns to human form afterwards. The novel then ends with Glendon, alive, contemplating using the hypnotist's gun to commit suicide rather than go on living as a werewolf.”

Avoid nosy landladies and get home before the moon rises—that’s my advice for you!

See you on THURSDAY for the grand wrap-up of this month of frights -- ANOTHER new Halloween-music comp!!!!

  

All in the Cards

... Although I only have a FEW of the cards!

Here are the other two "Scare-Cards" from Scary Monsters mag which I've encountered.

Feel free to let me know if you get a prize while writing to the above address.

See you Monday for the final week of this year's BLOG-O-WEEN!  It's a date, ingrate!

  

Those Halloween Kids!

I first noticed these silhouetted Halloween kids on Hiland Dairies’ Chocolate Peanut Butter Milk—which is scrumptious, by the way.

Then I noticed those kids in a 2011 folder of clip art. Then I noticed them all over!

This one’s from 2019.

This is from a Mixcloud show for which I’ve misplaced the particulars.

And this one’s from 2015.

The one above is a variation.

The "orignal" image is supposedly “only available” from istockphotos. But tell me, where else have YOU seen it?  I know those kids are out there somewhere RIGHT NOW!

See ya Friday.

  

Target -- Earth!

 Scary Books, Kiddies!

Flying Saucer Invasion – Target Earth! by Brad Steiger and Joan Whritenour. Award Books, 1969.

This is not only a more serious book than the sensationalist title, it’s an anthology by some credible writers, including John Keel, George Duplantier, and the editors (“partly” credible in the case of the editors).

I have no idea where the “experts in 40 countries” means, since there are about ten total authors. But the rear cover explains: It’s the reports, not the experts, that are far-flung. Huh.

See you Wednesday, kiddies!  Keep watching the skies!

  

Bloody Good Books?

This is from the May 15, 1973 TIME mag.

Of course, I own both tomes.  Yeah, Leonard Wolf has in the years since made a small industry out of Dracula.  And McNally-Florescu cranked out a second book about Prince Vlad.

Seek out these tomes, I command you!

See you Monday.

  

More Munster Pages

Well, after umpteen years, we are ALMOST at the end of this coloring book.

As a kid, I never wondered exactly how in the world Herman Munster might've made it into the army.  I mean, don't you have to have a pulse?

See you on Friday, fiends and degradations!

  

 Scary Books, Kiddies!

 The Mummy: Dark Resurrection.  By Michael Paine.  DH Press, 2006.  Cover painting by Stephen Youll. 

            Well, I’m sad to report that this is another of those books whose memory is lost to the time and tides.  It’s set in the present day, and ye olde Karloffornian Ardath Bey is once again dragging around as THAT mummy.  Ye gad!

           See you next time—mayhap with more verbiage, kiddies!  That's Wednesday -- It's a DATE!

These Didn't Fall Out

For awhile, I was happily picking up copies of Scary Monsters magazine in the early 1990s.  A few issues enclosed some cards, reminiscent of the Topps cards of the sixties.  Here are three of the few I have:

I never read the MR MONSTER comic, nor encountered Uncle Ted and Nefu Ned.  However, I assure you that Zacherly is definitely an entertainer for which I have NO appreciation.  Just a matter of taste, kiddies!

See ya Monday.

  

Them Thar Feet Is Big

This hyar story from the local rag is about a hairy guy possibly living in our own Sooner State.

To me, "Boggy Bottom Monster" sounds like a villain in a diaper commercial.

This is from the July 30, 2006 Oklahoman.  Note the writer credit, a "staff writer."  I don't know how many of those the paper has today.  (Although the phone number at article's end has a Dallas area code.)

I like the felicitous phrase "fleeting furry freak," don't you?  See you Friday for some FICTIONAL monsters!

  

Were YOU Scared Too?

Lovecraft: A Biography.  Abridged by the author.  By L Sprague de Camp.  Ballantine, 1976.  Cover art by Murray Tinkelman.

           This is a fine read, due to de Camp’s writing skills.  The hardback was just over 500 pages—I’ve read it too.  This abridgment “by the author” gets us down to 480 paperback pages. 

            Look at Murray Tinkelman’s cover art and explain why a dragon is erupting from the head of ol’ Aich-Pee Ell.

            It so happens that de Camp and his lovely wife Catherine were guests of Norman, OK’s PsurrealCon in February 1990.

            And he was gracious enough to autograph my paperback!

             See you in the stacks, kiddies!

  

An Eternal Haunt!

If you were ever a red-blooded American kid, you thrilled to the cartoon adventures of Jonny Quest.

The Sea Haunt turned out to be the final episode, airing in April 1965.  The Quest crew encounters a seemingly deserted ship.  They find one survivor hiding in the freezer, who warns them about the devil from the sea which killed the others.

Here's a screengrab from about eight minutes into the show, when we the viewers learn that the cook isn't crazy -- there REALLY IS a sea monster prowling the vessel!

This shot from about 15 minutes in gives us a better view of the whole beast.  

Well ... imagine my surprise when, in a book about pulp horror, I came across a familiar face!

This here's the cover of Strange Tales, cover-dated October 1932.  Tell me these haints ain't related!

See you Monday!

  

Still the Munsters!

Yes, we still have not exhausted all the pages of the 1965 Whitman coloring book featuring The Munsters.

Several generations of kids colored on this one.

See you on Friday!

  

Welcome to October with MA-199 - Scare Parts!

Yes, the creepiest, mostest bestest time of year is finally upon us, ghouls and ghoulettes!

We've got all kinds o' fun in store, both on the Super Blog and the Record Round-Up.  Exhibit One:  A new music comp!

01 - Adventures of Frank N Stein - Al Casey and the Bats - 1958  (2:04)

02 - Werewolf - Harla Horror - 2005  (4:21)

03 - The Monster Hop - Jimmy Dee and the Meteors - 1962  (2:04)

04 - Billy the Monster - The Deviants - 1969  (3:26)

05 - Zombie - Vital Disorders - 1984  (4:19)

06 - Creature - Tijuana Panthers - 2009  (2:59)

07 - The Rat's Revenge (Parts 1 and 2) - The Rats - 1965  (5:38)

08 - King Kong - Orlie and the Saints - 1962  (3:00)

09 - The Beetles Will Getcha - Carl Lertzman and the Bo-Weevels - 1964  (1:45)

10 - Humanoids from the Deep - The Witch Trials - 1981  (6:52)

11 - Vampire - Jesse Martinez and Famous Flames - 1958  (3:14)

12 - Zombie Creeping Flesh - Peter and the Test Tube Babies - 1983  (4:06)

13 - Monsterman - DEVO - 2014  (2:09)

14 - Little Black Things - Sheldon Allman - 1963  (2:02)

15 - Johnny Frankenstein - Tony Carr and the Riff Riders - 1967  (2:19)

16 - A Dragon in the House - Lew Morris - 1967  (2:40)

17 - Bigfoot Song - Buddy Knox - 1986  (5:03)

18 - Purple Gorilla - The Vyllies - 1984  (3:31)

19 - The Thing - Bill Buchanan - 1958  (2:20)

20 - Revolution 31 - Mark  Alfred - markssuperblog.blogspot.com - 2024  (8:22)

Besides the other wonders herein, I am thrilled to offer my own Frankensteinian audio assembly as the last track.  Assembled from about 35 different sources, “Revolution 31” is my Halloween answer to the Beatles’ “Revolution 9” (on their White Album).

A chart of the components of "Revolution 31" is included, too.

THIS LINK GOOD FOR THREE DAYS.

https://www.filefactory.com/file/3682uhg97n6u/MA-199.rar

Your humble lab assistant hopes you look kindly upon his offering!

Come back Wednesday for the next excruciating installment of BLOG-O-WEEN!

  

Superman Kills!

This is from the October 1, 1988 Amazing Heroes #150.

You know, I not only agree with Morrissey's reasoning, I pretty much concur with these opinions of Byrne's effect on Superman and DC.

I'll leave you to ruminate silently on such horrors, as you gird your loins for the commencement of BLOG-O-WEEN ... TOMORROW!