Scary Monsters #125 holds a Robert Bloch, House that Dripped Blood bent, with Scott Jackson's cover-shot of the Bloch-ian/Amicus anthology's busty Ingrid Pitt to draw us in (accompanied, no less, by an article on Bloch's literary development of Norman Bates). To make Jackson's striking wraparound even more exciting, the rear view is in glorious, blood-tinted 3D, flaunting some fine, related examples, along with a comprehensive essay on the cinematic phenomenon.
In addition to the aforementioned Bloch and his influential work, this scholarly issue emphasizes authors Ray Bradbury (It Came From Outer Space/Something Wicked This Way Comes), Edgar Rice Burroughs (The Land That Time Forgot/The People That Time Forgot), Robert A. Heinlein (The Puppet Masters/Starship Troopers) and current fantasy trailblazer, Robert Guffey (Bela Lugosi's Dead).
There's also coverage on Richard Matheson's popular Night Stalker sequel, The Night Strangler; The Cat Creature; Island of the Damned; Larry Talbot (and his howling accomplices); '60s Batmania; an Exorcist love letter; the horrifying, real-life H.H. Holmes and (in relation to Bates) Ed Gein; televised monster-movie jubilation; the famous, week-long Realart Film Festivals; and the grand movie palaces that once beamed the best of the best in imagi-entertainment.
Scary Monsters #125 has just the right ingredients to please all horror/science-fiction movie and literary buffs. Get your copy today online or at your favorite book shop.
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