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The Things We’ve Lost…
Over the years I’ve lost a handful of things….many I’d love to have back.
There was the obligatory comic book or two, rubber pencil topper monster and rubber disembodied hand. Those all acquired by my various elementary and junior high school teachers in a most perfunctory way. Zip, and snatched off my desk or from behind my notebook.
My original Aurora models (1960s) and glow models (1970s) that vanished in a move from North Atherton Street to Ramblewood Road when I was in seventh grade. They mysteriously never made the journey. My parents pitching them when I wasn’t looking??? Or, a black hole? I prefer to believe in the black hole theory.
Along the way I also lost my monster Soaky Toys, MPC monsters and my treasured Old Maid Monster card deck. Those three things, however, I was able to re-buy (or gifted to me) and now they rest safely at Creepy Classics/Monster Bash HQ.
Now there was one item, that is my missing Holy Grail. It is a film catalog that was given to me by my grandfather. It was a rental catalog for 16mm films…maybe by the Modern Sound Pictures company. It was a Halloween edition that, I believe, had a red cover with various monsters on it. Inside were descriptions and photos from all the classic horror and science fiction films they offered for rental. It probably came out in between 1969-1972. I proudly took it to Park Forest Junior High School to show the other kids this cool, cool catalog. It got passed around our lunch table…and disappeared. I was heartbroken…and have been for the past 47 years. So, if I may, turn this into a classified ad plea….if anyone knows where I could find one of these???
Now the important part…it really isn’t just the fact that we liked these “lost” items. For me it’s because they’re a missing piece of time. A time associated with all the great relatives that lovingly gave you these things…while they were still around. I wish I could thank them all again. I will thank my dad the next time I see him. The combination of all of this is that it’s a part of you, these things had, and have emotional strings. They are us, and that’s why we’d love to reclaim some of the missing pieces…of our youth.
Ron Adams
Ligonier, PA
March 2020
On with the show, now let’s check out the new cool stuff and classic monster news…
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Lost After Midnight
The above clip was teased as being a surviving bit from the lost Lon Chaney film a few years ago. Click the above image to see some brief footage.
If I tell you what it really is…it’ll be pretty disappointing. Well, okay…it’s a stop motion of the Sideshow action figure. But, the effects and background make it pretty cool.
We can only wish that the film as LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT (1927), or it’s UK title THE HYPNOTIST will finally show up some year…
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New! A Treasure Trove of Used DVDs For Your Collection
Did you know we had a Used DVD Department, with scores of great titles, many out-of-print on DVD?
We we’re digging through a storage boxes again and landed loads of even more used DVDs that you might need for your collection!
Great titles like WHITE ZOMBIE (1932, the original Roan release), THE MUMMY’S SHROUD (1967, Hammer Horror), ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE MUMMY (1955), THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (1947, a truly great film), THE MUMMY (1932, original Universal release), THE FRANKENSTEIN LEGACY (original green Universal DVD set release) and more, more, more.
Put on your miner’s helmet and start exploring the dark recesses of our Used DVD Department at Creepy Classics…you’ll find some real gruesome gems!
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We are GO for MONSTER BASH in June
You won’t want to miss out on this next summer’s MONSTER BASH at the Double Tree Hotel in Mars, PA on June 19-21, 2020!
The place were fans, professionals and Monster Kids meet!
Guest stars:
The surviving cast members of the original THE MUNSTERS TV show, Pat Priest and Butch Patrick will be there, Ricou Browning from CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, REVENGE OF THE CREATURE and THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US, Arch Hall, Jr. from EGAHH, THE SADIST, THE CHOPPERS and WILD GUITAR, Kris Yeaworth technical staffers for THE BLOB, THE 4-D MAN and DINOSAURUS (and son of director Irving Yeaworth), Jeremy Ambler from TV’s THE WALKING DEAD, Bill Luciani and Tony Pitocco’s Life-Size Monsters…plus, more to come!
Special presentations by historians and writers: Tom Weaver, Greg Mank, Frank Dello Stritto, Deborah Painter. Plus TV Horror Host Son of Ghoul!
Guests and events subject to weird transformation.
200 vendor tables, film festival, talks, Q&A with the fans, autographs and the amazing Monster Bash fun for the whole family!
Bill Luciani is back at MONSTER BASH June 2020 with his life-size monsters lining the hallway! Bill, along with Tony Pitocco create these amazing figures, some over seven feet tall. Their torch-wielding assistant is Paul Palmireri. Don’t miss the photo-ops with these great creatures in our Horror Hall.
Reserve your 3-Day VIP admission for all events, dealer ballroom and meeting guest stars NOW! Available right now, CLICK HERE!
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New! Found Buried in a Box
I just found a box that was buried for the past five years when we moved the operation. 14 copies of MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE #1 in mint condition. I saved five for my personal collection and these 14 are the last remaining that can be sold. If you needed that issue #1 to complete your MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE here is a rare chance to do just that!
Hurry, hurry…they will be gone soon.
You’ll see it available for on-line ordering in our MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE Department here at Creepy Classics….home, scream, home to Monster Bash.
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New! GAPPA in Shock Stock on Blu-Ray
It’s here and in laser quality Blu-Ray…a fresh high-definition transfer:
GAPPA – THE TRIPHIBIAN MONSTER (1967) – Blu-Ray
Also known as: MONSTER FROM A PREHISTORIC PLANET. Developers begin building the ultimate amusement park on a remote island, only to find an unclassified dinosaur. They return to Tokyo with it and it grows….and grows ahhhhhhhh!!!!! Original Japanese version and optional English language version!
Wrangle a copy on blu-ray right now for presenting in your own home theater…it’s in our New Blu-Ray Department right here at the radioactive, blasted Creepy Classics!
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New! The Trailer Collections Are Here
Two trailer collections are here…one features classic preview trailers from the 1930s-1940s, the other, films from the 1950s-1960s. They’re 14.99 each….or, get both right now for 19.99.
Classic horror and science fiction films we love. Approximately 80 minutes of non-stop trailers on each disc. Put it on and let it roll! Great for background at parties or movie night get togethers with all your monster movie fan friends.
Get them now in our Preview Trailers Department at Creepy Classics.
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New! Classic Pulp Magazine from the Early 1950s
Our expanding Pulp Magazine Department now features issues of FUTURE SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASTIC STORY and SCIENCE FICTION QUARTERLY! Many have interior art by the great Virgil Finley…stories by James Blish, Poul Anderson, L. Sprague de Camp, Donald A. Wollheim and more.
Get these and many others in our Pulp Magazine Department here at space-age Creepy Classics!
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Back in Stock! The Hardback Book CARL DENHAM’S GIANT MONSTERS
A truly amazing BIG book, filled with photos…details:
CARL DENHAM’S GIANT MONSTERS (Dello Stritto) – Hardcover Book
By Frank Dello Stritto. Divulged! Author’s meetings with adventurer Carl Denham’s over a series of interviews; a written life story and encounters with amazing prehistoric beasts. Fiction or non-fiction? You decide. Illustrated with hundreds of photos and monsters. Amazing 506 page account.
On sale for 29.99 at Creepy Classics in our Creepy Bookstore here on-line.
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Rest in Peace, Actor Stuart Whitman
This in from MONSTER BASH magazine writer Leonard Hayhurst:
Actor Stuart Whitman died March 16, 2020, of natural causes in Montecito, California, per the Hollywood Reporter. He was born Feb. 1, 1928, in San Francisco, California.
His career started in 1951 with uncredited parts in WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. His breakout role came in 1960 in MURDER INC. as a singer who gets wrapped up with the mob. Whitman received an Oscar nomination for best actor in 1961 for THE MARK as a convicted child molester trying to assimilate back into society.
Whitman’s genre films include THE MONSTER CLUB, DEMONOID, RUBY, EATEN ALIVE, THE CAT CREATURE, NIGHT OF THE LEPUS, REVENGE!, CITY BENEATH THE SEA and SHOCK TREATMENT.
He also did several war films and westerns such as THE LONGEST DAY, THE COMANCHEROS, RIO CONCHOS, THE DAY AND THE HOUR, THE LAST ESCAPE, THE INVINCIBLE SIX, CAPTAIN APACHE and WHITE BUFFALO.
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….and now, photos of fun from past MONSTER BASH shows! Stay up-to-date with MONSTER BASH Shows:
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Monsters After Midnight 