Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze In America 1957-1972
Brooklyn Allen author Shannon Watters author Grace Ellis author Jim Henson author Noelle Stevenson author Mark Voger author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:TwoMorrows Publishing
Published:21st Jul '15
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- Time-trip back to the frightening era of 1957-1972, when monsters stompedinto the American mainstream! Once Frankenstein and fiends infiltrated TV in1957, an avalanche of monster magazines, toys, games, trading cards, and comicbooks crashed upon an unsuspecting public. This profusely illustrated,full-color hardcover covers that creepy, kooky Monster Craze through features onFamous Monsters of Filmland magazine, the #1 hit "Monster Mash," Aurora'smodel kits, TV shows (Shock Theatre, The Addams Family, TheMunsters, and Dark Shadows), Mars Attacks trading cards, EeriePublications, Planet of the Apes, and more!
- It features interviews with James Warren (Creepy, Eerie, andVampirella magazines), Forrest J Ackerman (Famous Monsters ofFilmland), John Astin (The Addams Family), Al Lewis (TheMunsters), Jonathan Frid (Dark Shadows), George Barris (monster carcustomizer), Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (Rat Fink), Bobby (Boris) Pickett ("MonsterMash" singer/songwriter) and others, with a Foreword by TV horror hostZacherley, the "Cool Ghoul."
ISBN: 9781605490649
Dimensions: 279mm x 229mm x 25mm
Weight: 816g
192 pages