CLASSIC MONSTERS OF THE MOVIES #30: IMHOTEP & COMPANY

Classic Monsters of the Movies #30 contains 68 powerful pages of devilish delights, headlined by Karl Freund's iconic The Mummy, starring Boris "the Uncanny" Karloff as the "immortal" (bandaged and unbandaged) Imhotep (aka Ardeth Bay).

Along with this sensational, Universal retrospective (which covers the movie's production from its Cagliostro roots to its fruition as an impassioned anthem of lost love), the issue includes articles on dinosaur cinema (from The Dinosaur and the Missing Link, The Lost World 1925, King Kong 1933 and beyond); Brian De Palma/Paul Williams' cult triumph, Phantom of the Paradise; the compelling, serial-slasher quickie, Night of Terror, with Bela Lugosi and Wallace Ford; and a thorough look at dashing Patric Knowles, who made a big splash in such stylish sojourns as The Wolf Man, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, The Strange Case of Doctor RX and Mystery of Marie Roget. (As a swell supplement to these prime essays, there's a handy column called "Sweeney Todd's Cellar," which unveils several current, literary and disc releases of old favorites.) 

Though seasoned submissions dominate #30, it also sheds light on the new-fangled, as shown by a drag-spun retelling of Robert Lewis Stevenson's eternal tale of dual personality in Joe A. Stephenson's neo-Hammer, Doctor Jekyll, starring the versatile Eddie Izzard.

As with any Classic Monsters issue, the writing is crisp, sincere and thorough, with segments composed by the periodical's faithful leads, Nige Burton and Jamie Jones, and their scholarly crew, Alex Hopkins, Marcus Turner and David Huckvale. 

Inarguably, Classic Monsters #30 is a pedagogic treat for those of discerning, macabre taste. Order at

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