The Monster Times #30 - Ron Haydock & Ray Dennis Steckler, Billy Gholston's Zombie Stomp/Monsters 'A Go-Go

One of my heroes writing about one of my other heroes? It happened in this issue of The Monster Times, in the only sympathetic(no conflict of interest here, buddy!)article in an otherwise all-bashing-of-low-budget-wonders all-out attack. It was hip to do so at the time, and even a mag as liberal-minded as TMT indulged itself...

This is as good a time as any to spring this little surprise on you, a rare copy of a 45 released to publicize The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies. I don't know what the A-side has to do with TISCWSLABMUZ but the B-side will strike a chord with those persons familiar with Ray's most famous film...

Monsters 'A Go-Go/Zombie Stomp

An effusive outpouring of gratitude will suffice...

See you in October.

(P.S. There was a problem with page two of the article not expanding, I fixed it. Thanx, Kars!)

John Zacherle/Zacherley - Scary Tales, Eighty-Two Tombstones

I just woke up from having fallen asleep listening to a scary sound effects record and having the most intense Halloween dream...

As promised, my copy of Scary Tales "Featuring John Zacherley"...

Annnnnd...

Eighty-Two Tombstones/Lunch With Mother Goose

Yesterday's post's article mentioned a map that Zach promoted on the air as appearing in a local TV Guide-type magazine, this is the map. It's from the Chiller Theatre mag also...

Zacherley, The Cool Ghoul - America's #1 TV Horror Host

Here's a great bio for John Zacherley AKA "The Cool Ghoul", King Of Horror Hosts from a Chiller Theatre Special Edition magazine published waaay back in '98 when Zach was only 80! I have never had the privilege(or the moolah)to attend a ChillerCon but I bet it's amazing, just having a chance to meet Zacherley would be reason enough to go. Some might think it strange for a Southern boy like me, who was born too late and too far away to experience Zach in his media prime to have such a fascination with the guy. It started for me when I saw a pic in a book of early television history that my folks owned featuring Zach holding a bloodstained card that said "Be Neat"! This was before I ever saw an issue of Famous Monsters. A video he produced in the 80's, "Horrible Horror" was my first look at him in action and finally a video compilation of kinetoscopes from '58-'59 that appeared this decade only confirmed my suspicion that this guy was the Coolest and the Ghoulest! I finally found my own copy of his "Scary Tales" LP and will be sharing it with ya'll tomorrow along with my copy of his "Eighty-Two Tombstones/Lunch With Mother Goose" 45. 'Til then, get acquainted(or re-acquainted)with John Zacherley!...

Happy 92nd Birthday Zach, Whatever You Are!...

Happy Birthday Zacherley!

Confound It All!!! As much as I love this guy's work I didn't know it was his birthday today, thanx to 13 for waking me up to the fact(at 5 pm no less)! I will have a post up to celebrate later tonight/tomorrow morning. He's 92!

The Weird World Of Mr. & Mrs. J. Evil Scientist #3 - The Cat's Meow

I'd like to dedicate this story to all our damn cats!...

Fletcher Hanks couldn't have come up with a worse punishment...

Hey, who didn't have a Bat-Kite?...

For Monsters Only #3 - Boris Karloff, John Severin, Bill (McCartney) Ward

I always liked FMO's contents page...

Nice overview of Karloff's career if you're not already screamingly familiar with it...

Check out that awesome font! Wish I had the whole alphabet!

WANT!...