Scary Monsters #129 (Winter 2023) is a festive feast for fans of underground realms and their varied paths and denizens. Scott Jackson's Gogos-esque cover stirs the flavor with a slave-dweller portrait from Virgil W. Vogel's venturesome The Mole People, which is essayed at length in this special issue.
In addition to that imaginative, '50s sojourn, readers are treated to articles on Hollow Earth speculations; Battle Beneath the Earth; Superman and the Mole Men; The Lost City; The Lost Kingdom; The Slime People; The Incredible Petrified World; Unknown World; C.H.U.D.; Undersea Kingdom; Latlantide; The Return of Chandu; and The Phantom Empire (yep, the one with good ol' Gene Autry).
Beyond these subterranean plunges, #129 features Lugosi's movie laboratories (The Devil Bat, The Ape Man, Return of the Ape Man, Voodoo Man and Murders in the Rue Morgue); Henry Hull and Warner Oland in Werewolf of London; genre favorite Robert Hutton (The Colossus of New York, Invisible Invaders, The Vulture, They Came From Beyond Space, Trog, Cry of the Banshee, Torture Garden and Amicus' Tales From the Crypt); Japanese bloodsuckers (The Vampire Doll, Lake of Dracula, Evil of Dracula); "Kaiju Corner" poster promotions; Ted V. Mikels' amazing Astro Zombies; stylish, haunted fiction; spacey, airwave sci-fi; Vincent Price and Christopher Lee's Poe-latched Oblong Box; radioactive terrors; and Native American mysticism (The Manitou, Prophesy, Nightwing, Wolfen and Poltergeist II), to name but a far-out few.
Fun, fun, fun! That's what one gets in Scary Monsters #129. So, why wait? Dig up a copy at
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