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feeds@yuku.com (Uncle Doug) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:45:05 PST

Lots of vintage Horror here! :-) http://uncledougsbunkerofhorror.blogspot.de/ Take care. Doug

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feeds@yuku.com (austex23) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:37:31 PST

Great topic! Although I discovered Bloch and Bradbury (and Things with Claws) on my own, my horizons were broadened vastly by Famous Monsters and the other monster mags and the ads in the back of them. As noted above, the Ballantine horror series were gen...
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feeds@yuku.com (Grant) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:52:40 PST

Airmont's Frankenstein was my first horror novel and I guess my first paperback novel, as opposed to Whitman hardback ones (which could be a whole other thread). But the one I seemed to "read to tatters" was their Poe collection (I'm such a bad reader tha...
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feeds@yuku.com (ByronOrlok) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 08:14:09 PST

Oh HELL yeah -- I totally love my Airmont editions of FRANKENSTEIN and DRACULA.

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feeds@yuku.com (Grant) — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:21:38 PST

This might not fit the thread, but when it comes to PUBLISHERS, there's Airmont books. In my case it was more often a case of seeing them in those tiny Warren magazine ads and elsewhere than actually owning them, but either way I get gushy at the sight of...
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feeds@yuku.com (ByronOrlok) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 07:24:38 PST

Bump!

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feeds@yuku.com (gef the talking mongoose) — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:15:51 PST

This one & 2 others edited by Charles M. Collins, Harvest of Fear (originally published as Fright) & A Walk with the Beast, were reprinted in the mid-'70s by, I believe, Avon, in which editions I would've encountered them. (I...
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feeds@yuku.com (Rakshasa) — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:28:42 PST

Tom Powers wrote: ABC later made Leslie H. Whitten's MOON OF THE WOLF as a TV Movie (pretty good). Absolutely! One of my favorites of the early 70's made-for-TV movies. I watch my copy once a year or so. Looking forward to reading the b...
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feeds@yuku.com (Tom Powers) — Tue, 12 May 2009 03:12:56 PST

As to Monster Kids-era books, I read many collections, esp. the Cthulhu Mythos (lots of those paperbacks at the library.) Half the time I had no idea what was going on in the tales. They did push me to read the dictionary and encyclopedia, as my uncle the...
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feeds@yuku.com (Tom Powers) — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:44:13 PST

ABC later made Leslie H. Whitten's MOON OF THE WOLF as a TV Movie (pretty good). Apparently, they also purchased a treatment of Whitten's TERROR AT MORNING TIDE, but it was never produced. * I also read THE ALCHEMIST, as it was part of a double...
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feeds@yuku.com (Mike Metzler) — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:38:30 PST

Here's a fun site for this kinda stuff: Groovy!

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feeds@yuku.com (Rakshasa) — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:38:19 PST

Interesting, Tom. Thanks for that info!

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feeds@yuku.com (Tom Powers) — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:33:45 PST

Whitten (or his publisher) sued over similarities between PROGENY and NIGHT STALKER, and recieved an out of court settlement. Rice, Curtis, and Matheson claimed never to have heard of the book. Interesting that Jeff Rice and Leslie Whitten were both rep...
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feeds@yuku.com (Rakshasa) — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:43:12 PST

ByronOrlok wrote: As for novels, aside from the obvious blockbuster bestsellers by Levin, Blatty, et al -- Leslie H. Whitten comes to mind as being almost the quintessential 60's horror writer, who had some success in putting traditional or ...
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feeds@yuku.com (Marshall Crist) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:57:54 PST

jimallcorn wrote: In fact, the very first "adult" horror fiction novel that I read at about 11 or 12 years old was actually an advertised staple in the back pages of FM called NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE by one, Raymond Giles. ...
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feeds@yuku.com (Detective Kemper) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:29:37 PST

gutridge wrote: >>Does this book include the short story that became a Night Gallery episode with the same title? The one concerning a fuzzy brooch that is actually a vampire mouse?<< According to online sources, "The Fu...
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feeds@yuku.com (gutridge) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:13:58 PST

>>Does this book include the short story that became a Night Gallery episode with the same title? The one concerning a fuzzy brooch that is actually a vampire mouse?<< According to online sources, "The Fur Brooch" by Dulcie Gray is...
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feeds@yuku.com (jimallcorn) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:32:04 PST

Byron, thanks for the long thoughtful reply. It's much appreciated ( as is everyone else's as well ). I've actually got a small handful of those books that you mentioned, but many others you list are new to me & I'll have to see abou...
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feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:21:17 PST

Yup, Byron. Fritz Sr. played Franz Liszt in the Rains PHANTOM. -Craig W.

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feeds@yuku.com (ByronOrlok) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:15:55 PST

I dunno, something to do with Fritz's DAD, maybe...?

horror fiction paperbacks of the "Monster Kid" era ...

feeds@yuku.com (jimallcorn) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:01:56 PST

Strangely enough, this is a great, mostly unexplored area for me. Despite being a lifelong "Monster Kid" & a voracious reader of 46. In fact, the very first "adult" horror fiction novel that I read at about 11 or 12 years old was...
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