The Official, We Belong Dead Fearbook (The Best of Issues 1 to 8, 1993-1997) is a gem, with a striking front-and-back-cover wraparound, featuring some of our most fearsome favorites.
The in-depth, nostalgic contents contain articles on Rupert Julian's The Phantom of the Opera (with Lon Chaney Sr.); Wallace Worsley's The Penalty (also with Chaney); John S. Robertson's Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (with John Barrymore); Ingrid Pitt's Countess Dracula and The Vampire Lovers; James Whale and William Hurlbut's The Bride of Frankenstein (with Boris Karloff); Karl Freund and John Balderston's The Mummy (also with Karloff); Tod Browning's Freaks (with Wallace Ford); Paul Naschy's vast queue of lycanthropic horrors, et al.; Stuart Walker and John Colton's Werewolf of London (with Henry Hull); Val Lewton's psychological experimentations; Night of the Living Dead 1968 and 1990; Roger Corman and Richard Matheson's Edgar Allan Poe adaptations (with Vincent Price); Tigon Film Production's diverse frights; Terence Fisher and John Elder's Dracula: Prince of Darkness (with Christopher Lee); Jess Franco's Count Dracula (also with Lee) and the director's Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (with Howard Vernon); Roman Polanski and Gerard Brach's The Fearless Vampire Hunters (with Sharon Tate); Vernon Sewell and and Peter Bryan's The Vampire Beast Craves Blood (aka The Blood Beast Terror, with Peter Cushing); Amicus' chilling curations; Paul Wegener and Carl Boese's The Golem: How He Came into the World; Jose Ramon Larraz and Diana Daubeney's Vampyres; teen-monster flicks; Erle C. Kenton, Waledmar Young and Philip Wyle's Island of Lost Souls (with Charles Laughton); Walter Summers and Edgar Wallace's The Dark Eyes of London (aka The Human Monster, with Bela Lugosi); character artwork; television listings from back in the day; and a grand splattering more.
The enclosed wonders will boggle the mind and quicken the heart: just what any horror fan wants.
We Belong Dead's Fearbook (The Best of 1993-1997) is a thorough, photo-laden triumph that belongs in everyone's library. Order at
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