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ZACHERLEY

how he became

king of the ghouls

in new york

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the handsome

Horror

Dwight Frye, Dracula's assistant, is sore because he wanted to be on the front cover of this issue — but t

editor was afraid he'd draw flie^ <

CoJJL^hTbcT^^^^I HEY said you couldn't make a magazine

as great as FAMOUS MONSTERS.THEY said it would only last one issue, the

PTA (Peasants of Transylvania Association)

would stop it.

THEY said, "How could you top it? Wherewould you get photos for the second issue

greater than the first? How could the pictures

in #3 surpass those in #2? Would there be

enough new material for a 4th number?"(Well, just watch for the sensational Specials,

Exclusives and Scoops in #5!)THEY said, "You'd be swamped by cheap,

inferior imitations."

THEY talk too much. THEM! What do

they know about IT?YOU — YOU are the ones we listen to,

YOU thirsting thousands upon thousandswho can't get enough Ghoul-Aid, Choke-late

Sodas, Vanilla Milk-Shocks and Coca-Dracolas

to soothe your parched throats till the glori-

ous day (today) when you discover the newissue of FAMOUS MONSTERS on sale!

Drink ye deep! Quench your thirst! Everypage guaranteed to make your mouth wateror your tongue replaced free of charge.

DR. ACULA & HIS ZOMBIESForrest J. Ackerman and

James Warren

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?r**i!f**to thrilll Thafs 6'3" Ben Chapman ins.de the CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON suit, and (In

black) Jack Kevan, his co-creator, behind him. Kevan has now butit a sea-becut of his own, THE MONSTERFROM PIEDRAS BLANCAS.

FORREST J ACKERMANeditor

PHYLLIS FARKASman aging editor

GEORGE FRENOYart director

JAMES WARRENpublisher

OF HlMl*MD. ^

TABLE OF KONGTENTS

"DEAR MONSTERS .

8 THE SHOCK OF THINGS TO COME

28 YOU AXED FOR IT

31 READERS' DIE-JEST

32 MUMMY'S THE WORDThe First 3727 Years Are the Hardest, reveal Im-ho-tep & Kharis.

40 ALL "SHOCK" UP I

"Zach" is Back— and the East Ghost's Got Him. More i

Favorite New York Manster.

46 HORRIB-LEE YOURSDracu-Lee Christopher Graphically Described in All His GoryGlory.

SO GRUE-IT-YOURSELFGigantic Contest! Last Chance to Create a Disguise that will Scarethe Other Guya! Get a Special Hake-Up Kit ta Hake It Easy!

SI CLUB DE MONSTRESThat's French for MONSTERS' CLUB. In any language (ei

a Member, Monster!

subllilw. Repredsctif

lotbliMen. FAMOUS

57 MONSTERS BY MAILClaws! Masks! Fangs! Film! Stationery! Time-Bombs! ComicslEverything You Need to Make You Monstrously Happy! Hurry Upand Order Yesterday— Today May be Too Late I

66 MONSTERAMA QUIZDo You Know the Hant, Sirs, 1

Questions?; Sixty-Fear Thousand Dollar

Dtfinlng, Freufreh fata, Denii Gifii

Go'dtw. RuH H«l«k)' -' -

Mn, Bay ionei. A) L.

Spertc*r StTQnOf RotKlsu. Unbehoun, UIword U'bonk. Scslty

67 PLEASE FEED THE MONSTER I

Igor Loves Lettuce — Send Him A Couple Bucks for Back Issues or

Front Issues and He'll Be Ever So Grateful. He'll Bat Off YourHand . . . Right Up to the Elbow.

PeAHI^iIsTeRYOU' LL NEVER GUESS HOSE

PICTURE THIS IS

It is a bad cl4y for jour edi-

tor when the Bailman doesn'

t

draw up In a hearse and deli-

ver a whole casketful of let-

tors saying how FM nakes its

would-be imitatoro look sick,

but we can't give prizes for

who praises us the nost. So,

keep your criticisms, wittl-clsRS and sugges.tions for iat-

provement coming; and publl-Bhable plx are welcome aswell. Por greatest assist-ance to Dr. Acula this time.

First Prize goes to DENISQIFPORD: Second to KLAUS UN-BBWDN: and Third to GIOVANNISCOGNAMILLO. They have eachreceived an enviable selec-tion of monster stills. TheFirst Prize for Best Letterneitlme will be a copy of the

actual movie script of DOCTORDOOH, The Invisible Monster- -

presented to some lucky PMreader compllnents of the co-

authors, Ron Kenner and GeneCoughlln.--Porreat J. Ackerman

H0« TO UNMAKE A MONSTER?Your article on "How to Be-

come a Monster In 6 Easy Les-

sona" worked surprisinglyiiell--now please rush intoprint an article on how tobecome Jiaxffial again! Bettermake it in 3 easy lesBons.' cuz us monsters ain't notedfor our brains.

MIKE QtlAROSWestminster, Colo.

• The way I heard it, youmonsters are noted for otherpeople's brBin8l--Ed.

THE MASK OF ACKIB-HANCHUHow can I get one of thosefrightful Forrest J. Ackermenmasks?

DAVID STEW ITTBay Shore, N.Y.

• If FJA knew how to get rid

of his without losing face.I'm sure he'd give it to you,

--Dr. Acula

My Daddy had this picture of

himself taken when he was a

teenager. When he grew up my

Daddy wrote THE ILLUSTRATEDHAN. DARK CARNIVAL and otherbooks and movies. My Daddyis Ray Bradbury.

RUONA BRADBURVW. Los Angeles, Calif.

• And a mighty bandy Daddyto have around the house, es-

pecially at bed-time story-telling tlmel Incidentally.he hasn' t changed a bit sincethat foto was taken. Nor.for that matter, has your ed-itor. .. that' s me in his hand!

--Your AckFOR OROAN-UPS ONLV

• Kids, this is the onlysmall portion of the wholeissue that probably won' t in-

terest you. It's addressed to

parents and educators. State-ment from Publisher: Mr. fil-11am Hotin, a high schoolteacher of Jaffrey, New Ham p.

,

takes my Editor to task forproducing Insidious trasb, re-

commends he search his con-science instead of his pocket-book before continuing to con-tribute to the moral degrada-tion of our culture. Whileappreciating Mr. Hotin's sin-cere concern with molding theminds and mores of modernyouth, I feel he is misguidedregarding FAMOUS MONSTERS as

a menacing factor in the mentalhealth of present and futureAmerica. The salary I pay my

altruistic editor Is scarcelyenough to Influence him toabandon the principles of a

lifetime, and Forrest Ackerman

"If FAMOUS MONSTERS had exist-ed when I was 6 years old, I'msure my dearly beloved crand-mother--and she was the lastof the angel8--would havebought It for me regularly.Among my fondest memories ofher are those of her readingGhost Stories magazine to meand taking me (ay Grandfatherholding my other band) to THEPHANTOM OF THE OPERA. THE CATAND THE CANARY, etc. Beforecondemning this magazine, Mr.

Hotin. I feel you must provethat Lon Chaney Sr. pervertedhis life portraying monsters;that Edgar Allan Poe shouldnever have picked up a pen;that Mary Shelley loosed a

greater evil on the world thana fictional Frankenstein: thatUniversal Studios should beashamed of its^f for havingbuilt a reputation with DRAC-ULA, THE MUMMY, etc; and thatGood News Productions, prin-cipal producers of religiousmovies in the USA. had nobusiness forming a siblingorganization to produce THEBLOB, nor a local (Hollywood)branch of the Lutheran Churchto sponsor the filming ofGRAVE-ROBBERS (now PLAN 9)FROM OUTER SPACE. Quantita-tively, a single monster moviemust surely influence manytimes over the number of highschool students our magazinedoes. We but humorously reflecton what already exists inmovie monsterdom,"Mr. Hotin, ay Editor (at 42)has never smoked or drunk inhis life, has ho police record,is a peace-promoting Esperant-ist, has received a "Hugo"(the science fiction field'shighest award), is regarded asa hero in the home of Ray"Fahrenheit 451" Bradbury (whodid the screenplay of MOBYDICK and IT CAME FROM OUTERSPACE) by Mr. Bradbury'smonster-loving daughters, and,to cap the climax, was recent-ly invited to lecture on sci-fi AND monster movies to thestudent body of a Los AngelesJr. Higbl Tlie Defense rests.

--James Warren

DOING WUT COMES NATCHERLYThis is to let you know that"Roland," Philly's former TVhorror-host, is now (e)hostfor New York's SHOCK Theaterand is known as "Zacherley."

EI1£EN POOI£Forest Hills, N.Y.

Aix ARoinr ZAai in mis issue!

HE* S ONLY KIDDING, MAI think your magazine is thebest one is the world. MyMother thinks different, butthat doesn' t matter niuch--3heis Just an ordinary human be-ing.

SIEVE BURNSChicago, 111.

• We'll bet Steve burns ifhis Mother reads this letter!

TltEY AX FOR GAY YOUNG BLADEDear Monster ot an Editor,Sorry, we mean Editor of MON-STER: My girl friends and I

are sci*fi horror fans and wesaw "Night of the Blood Bees"and thot it was a honey of apicture. Since we usuallyhear all about actors, act-resses, directors, etc. wewere wondering if you couldwrite something about thefiendish author, his back-ground, the whole bit. Maybeyou could even show his pic-ture. Hope so!

M

LOS Angeies, uaiii.oKNIOIT OP ntE BLOOD BEAST

• Just see any FBI posterfor foto of Martin Varno. (Inthis case FBI means Fiend-Beast Investigators.) Seri-ously, here Is a picture ofthe handsome, talented, 22-year-old independently brokegenius whose new sci-fi film-script Is "The Brother."Don't all devour him at once,ghoulsl --Ed.

ED, ANY RELATIWi TO FBAMtEN?I must have been hanging up-side-down from my rafter fortoo long, for I find I missedyour first issue. To solvethis problem why not publishyour mag monthly, semi-month-ly, weekly or daily already?More, more, more. You'resuper-ghoul- OS sal.

EDWARD GOLDSTEINMontreal, Canada

• FM has now been steppedup to quarterly appearance.Don' t you think every 7 dayswould make one weak?--Ed.

STORK STARING MADThis is the flrstime I haveever written to a monster ona scroll and this stylus wasgiven to ne personally byPharoah. Really, to telj youthe truth, I an not as old asyou think; the pterodactyldropped me In 1947.

CHRISTINA R.D. VANCHERIPittsburgh. Penna.

SMC HONSIObS HAVE ALL THE

LUCKtI am writing a research paperon the origin of such figuresas Count Dracula, werewolvesand Frankenstein, and yourarticles have been a greathelp. If this information inmj report is good enough todraw an A, well, up to nowthe people in this town havebeen slightly on the ghoulishside, and this should rockthe balance over to our sidei

PAtU EBERSOLEElizabeth town, Penna.'

THIS IS A READER?• Ah. Paula, if i were wolf

I would send for you to coneto Horrorwood and research mylife story at second-hand (myfirst hand is chained to thetypewriter) but, alas, I amonly bats. --Dr. Acula

SLOGANSVILI£The Big M. ... is Konsters.Like your pleasure Big? RideKING KONG."How to Make Monsters Influ-ence People."Promise Her Anything but GiveHer FAMOUS MONSTERS.

NOIHIAN McVEABurlingame, Calif.

WATCH THE BIRDY!Do you think I could get aJob as a Wolf Han? If not,I'd be willing to do a razorad, but only when the moon is

full,. KIM HcNAREECleveland, Oljio

• Gee whiskers, why'd Gil-lette 'em grow so long?--Ed,

Uj\CKBEARD JimCLE

Offl.Y ROBOTS S1EELWhen I saw the latest, great-eat issue of PM, I got a fun-ny feeling where my heartused to be, i extended nyright tentacle, snatched itup and ran from the drugstore--I ran because I couldn'twait to get home to read it,I ran because my Mother toldme to get back to the grave-yard before mldnite, butmainly I ran because I didn'tpay any money,

JIMMY FIOODB. Meadow, N.Y,

• To what punitentlary wouldyou like your life subscrip-tion 8ent?--Ed,

MICKEY HOUSE CLUB?*3 cover best yet—excellentgastrononical, words can' t de-scribe It. (Howabout ghastli-Bnomical? --Ed. ) I love yourmag. It' s doing a lot tospread monsterlsm. Incident-ally, I think editor Ackermanlooks a lot like Walt Dlsney-I hope he will make as muchMoney from Monsters as Disneydid from Mickey Mouse.

T. DBACUU GRANIWOxford, Conn.

• Thanks, friend. Watch formy productions of "SlurpingBeauty," "Devilly Crockett,""Zombi, Son of Bambi," "Peterand the Werewolf," "The Abomi-nibble Snow White" and, in hi-cry screamophonic sound. "OldYELLER. "--Forrest "Olzny" Ack-erman.

Lon Chaney Jr. now regrets wolfing down his dinner: a funny-bone got stu(k in his throat and is threateningto joke him to death.

confidential notes

from tlie pages of dr. acula's private diary

reveal screamsville's secret plan for spinetingling pix

Throat feeling a little constricted. Otto? Try Dr.

Crespi's Crispy-Crunchy Coffdrops. (Otto Kruger withVickie Lane in JUNGLE CAPTIVE.)

Is he Fraid Astaire? No, it's Foy Van Dolsen, whogot that way from living too long on HORROR

ghoullywood,

ghoulifornia,

friday the 13th

—Today, with my evil eye, I pierced myCrystal with a penetrating stare. In fact, so

deep did my eye stab that it almost crackedthe glass, and I withdrew it just in time.Have you ever heard a Crystal bawl?But just before 1 fished my eyeball out of

the crystal bowl, here are some of the shock-ing revelations I saw

:

monsters sick?Is the cycle of monsters pix waning? I'm

alarmed. Why, I could foresee only ten newiilms with Monster in the title, and one re-

titled revival. Of course there are plenty ofnew movies planned with Brain, Beast, Blood,etc., in the title—but only ten with Monster?It's murder!Write to your Konjjressman today and de-

mand more Monster movies. Wani him thefollowing won't last you very long, and if

you don't get more! more!! MORE!!! you'reliable to turn into a MONSTER yourself

!

(Or has it already happened?)Anyway, here is FAMOUS MONSTERS'

genuine list of Marquee Monsters. Under nocircumstances disclose this hst to anyoneother than a bonafide member of the FamousMonsters Club. Memorize this list, and thenburn your brain.

—Dr. Acula

eenie, meanie,

minie, monsters

MONSTER ASSASSIN! That's the first

production scheduled from the new Kirkham-Reed International Corpse — oops — Corp.Willard Kirkham, the producer, has beeninterested in science fiction for some time,and plans other weird science pictures.

'^m}]

"Well, what are YOU staring at? We c

says Rondo Hotton.n't ALL be handsome like my friends the Mummy and Frankenstein I"

Head Man In this Laboratory is Nostradamus, noless) He was the amazing Medieval prophet, but

there doesn't seem to be much profit in losing one's

head as he has done In THE MAN WITHOUT A BODY.

Run-Tln-Can, the robotman from TARGET — EARTH I

Alas, poor Tin; foiled ogaini

MONSTER OF PIEDRAS BLANCASthis is one of the masterpieces of Jack Kevan,creator of the Mole Men, the Monster on theCampus. This Island Earth Mutant and nu-merous others (for article on Jack see

"Monsters of Tomorrow" in FM #3).MONSTER FROM MARS—this is Wyott

Ordung's 3D picture, ROBOT MONSTER,being re-released under this new title in 2D.THE KIVA MONSTER—a horror based

on Hopi Indian legends.

MOON MONSTER—is something sinister

lurking on the Dark Side of our earth's ownsatellite?

BROTHER MONSTER—a perhaps next-

to-final title for Martin Varno's technicolorful

screenplay which he calls "10 times better

than my first, NIGHT OF THE BLOODBEAST."THE MONSTER—the just plain monster

from 1899 discovered by Lou "I Bury the

Living" Garfinkle.

THE LITTLE MONSTER—That Swift's

original Idea, and an ideal plot in which to

introduce his own son, "The Boy Who Be-came A Monster" (see foto feature in FM#3).THE 2-HEADED MONSTER— like the

Muties say, "Two heads are better thannone."THE INVISIBLE MONSTER— see our

"Dear Monster ..." dept. for info on howYOU may win and read the entire script of

this story in advance of its production.

And last, but far from least, that amazingbeast The Metamorph created by Stuart J.

Byrne for—MONSTER IN MY BLOOD!

beastly, eh wot?

So much for the monsters, so what's newin beasts, vampires, werewolves and what-nots?

Well, there'll be a BEAST FROM BLOODISLAND. And CHOOKNA — THE BEASTFROM WORLD'S END. And GIGANTIS —he's the brother of Godzilla, who meets upwith a perfectly charming, er, alarming newplaymate.

There'll be a dandy dragon in EVE ANDTHE DRAGON, the Jim Nicholson Specialthat will be filmed in Superama and drama-color in the mysterious Matto Grosso jungle.

AFFAIRS OF A VAMPIRE will be co-

billed with THE LEECH, both Universal-In-ternational, the latter not to be confused withATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES, anAmerican-International title.

And it will take Skin-'em'scope to properlycover THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE.

Grim and brrr HI (From the 1729 production THE THREE PASSIONS.)

This is a Portrait of Dorlah GrayTakon before his hair went away

While this is the tost known picture of thot Grayknown as Dorian.

They say he got this way when FAMOUS MONSTERSwas late and he started a-worryin'.

things are

buzzingTHE FLY was such a biock-buzzer that

the inevitable has happened: there's to bee,

oops, be a RETURN OF THE FLY.But, as Shakespeare once said {after read-

ing a copy of FM) : "To bee or not to bee,

that is the question" ; and the answer seemsto be THE WASP WOMAN, which is thenew title for INSECT WOMAN, announcedhere list issue. Susan Cabot, whom you will

remember as the beautiful brunet star ofTHE SAGA OF THE VIKING WOMENAND THEIR VOYAGE TO THE WATERSOF THE GREAT SEA SERPENT, plays thewaspish character.Things will no doubt be humming at the

bucks-office too when it's hit by THEHIDEOUS ROCK 'N' ROLL CREATURE.Or THE CRAZY QUILT TERROR, sug-gested by David Grinnell's short story, "TheRag Thing."

mish-mashThere's a perfect mish-mash coming up in

the Battle of the Masks.THE MASK OF THE RED DEATH will

be produced by Alex Gordon.Allied Artists plans a plain one called just

THE MASK.Boris Petroff has registered the title

MASK OF TERROR.There's to be a new BEHIND THE MASK,

not to be confused with the Boris KarloffBEHIND THE MASK of 1932 nor the BE-HIND THE MASK of 1946 with Kane Rich-mond nor Peter Lorre in THE FACEBEHIND THE MASK!THE MASK OF MELOG—a Golemesque

idea by Weaver (Frankenstein from Space)Wright.

one s company,

two's a cloud!A Cloud of Death is bad enough to con-

tend with when it's high in the sky like THEFLYING EYE but when it splits in two (like

THE TROLLENBERG TERROR) and starts

When his hair's a disgrace and his face is half gone And this is poor Dorion some years later on -

y>iMT;rS

Big Mist Muffst sure has it tuff - it's a mutant spider from THE STRANGE WORLD OF PLANET X that's caughtGaby Andre Jn its web.

down the mountainside for you— that's thetime to head for the nearest exit! Actually,these are both the same picture — "Eye" is

the American title and "Trollenberg" theBritish. It's about Forrest Tucker as a scienceinvestigator for UNO who discovers that aspace-creature is hidden in a radioactivecloud atop a Swiss Alp. This "thing," whichis like an airborne octopus, can only survivewhere it's extremely cold. The Thing thriveson mountain-climbers and villagers, behead-ing a couple and possessing two others. Thosewho become mad puppets under the balefulinfluence of The Flying Eye eventually haveto be destroyed. Threat to the existence of thecreature is the presence of a psychic youngwoman whose mind reaches out and uncoversthe secret existence of the cloud-hidden mon-ster. There is a thrilling climax as thetentacled terror, aware that its life is in

danger, moves down the mountainside to de-stroy its enemies in the Observatory — onlyto be met by a plane dropping fire bombs.

nicholson's

'^

new onesNo issue of FAMOUS MONSTERS would

be complete, of course, without announce-ments from American-International Pix,where prexy Jim Nicholson is always busyfixing to offer further fantastic flickers. As afollowup to THE SCREAMING SKULL he'll

display THE HEADLESS GHOST; and sincehe didn't quite get rid of the world in THEDAY THE WORLD ENDED.'^e'U aim at

totel destruction in END OF THE WORLD.Nicholson has bought Jack Williamson's

great werewolf story, WOLVES OF DARK-NESS. Some of its exciting chapter headsare: "The Tracks in the Snow," "The Packthat Ran by Moonlight," "The Wolf and theWoman," "A Strange Homecoming," "TheMachine in the Cellar," "'The Temple ofCrimson Gloom," "The Creeping Darkness"and Spawn of the Dark Dimension^ Wow!Rush this one, Jim!"This summer we'll have an unusual one

out," Jim tells us, "WORLD WITHOUTWOMEN." His company is also preparing to

do THE WAR OF 1999, Richard Wilson'sGIRLS FROM PLANET 5, and a monster-comedy called TAKE ME TO YOURLEADER. But the very biggest announce-ment of all is (and I'll let Jim Nicholson tell

it to you in his own words) : "A few monthsago many of you read in the supplement to

your Sunday paper a special fiction-prediction

feature bv Jules Verne called IN THE YEAR2889. HGWells' great THINGS TO COMEonly dealt with the wars and wonders of thenext 100 years, but Verne's prophecy goes

Pretty Fritzie! Tou remember Fritz, Colin Ciive's

octive finie helper in THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN?

Don't look now. Mister, but your face is falling

opart. (That's Cloyce Bump's body that Eric Jasonis snatching.)

^

Honry Hull us Hi* origlnpl WEREWOLF OF LONDON turns his b.st john Bury-More profile to the c

f\ ,^^:^^-^^jS^

nearly 1000 years into the future. To givethis exciting Verne property the scope it

deserves we are going to film it in Cinema-Scope and color. We hope it will be as suc-cessful as 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THESEA."Although no decisions have been reached at

the time this issue of FM goes to press, it is

known that American-International is also

studying for possible production such worksas Ray Cummings' "Brigands of the Moon.""Interplanetary Hunter" by Arthur K.Barnes, "Power Metal" by Stuart J. Byrneand the late E. Everett Evans' "Alien Minds."

war of

the golem's

Golem. Golem, who's got the Golem?"First of aiy you may ask, "who or what

is thifl Golem?" Well, it was a legendaryandroid (human-like robot), said to havebeen constructed in Czechoslovakia duringthe Middle Ages. The Germans made a film

about it in 1914. They liked it so well thatthey did it over again just 6 years later. Thenin 1937 the French collaborated with theCzechs and filmed a version. A few years agothe Czechs did a version all their own.And now there's considerable confusion

over who'll do version #5, for 3 separatecompanies are all anxious to do so : theMirisch Co.. Frankel-Davis Co. and GalaxyPictures! Galaxy is George Pal's organiza-tion, and your editor has been assisting himso much with research on the Golem that 1

doubt he will want to abandon the project.

But Frankel-Davis say they are preoared to

spend $3,000,000 to turn THE GOLEM intoa widescreen-color-stereophonic ' smash hit,

and the Miriaches also have big plans.

Yes, we knoiv what you little golems wouldrecommend : make 'em all—the more Golemsthe gorier!

title changesTHE BRAIN EATERS was what finally

wound up on the marquee after being vari-ously referred to previously in FM's pages asThe Bain Snatckers, Keepers of the Earthand just plain The Keepers.The Last Woman on Earth has been

changed to WORLD WTTHOUT WOMEN.Insect Woman is now THE WASP WOM

AN.

"Kiss me, you mad fooll" cries this high school

beauty in BLOOD QF DRACULA, but our reluetcmff

hero would appeor to prefer blonds.

THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE sticks his

i out at hts teacher and starts to bawl. SeemsCreature Teacher caught him in class reading ahorror magazine obout people and took away his

only copy of FRIOHTENINO HUMANS OF EARTHLAND.

It looks as if Tor Johnson & Vompiro have just seen

the cover of the latest FM.

"C'mon-a my house," Invites Actor Robert Clarke in

this speciolly posed picture for FM. "You'll like it

there - it's the first home in Horrorwood to hove anair-conditioned dungeon." (You can see Bob in THESUN DEMON.)

LOU COSTELLO AND HIS 30-FOOTBRIDE was formerly known as "The Secret

Bride of Candy Rock.Jerome Bixbv's The Sea Demon has be-

come THE DEVIL FROM THE DEEP.FIEND FROM THE FUTURE is the re-

titling of the Larry Maddock-Weaver Wrightcollaboration formerly known as It Cavne to

Kill.

carradine

the cosmic

John Carradine is back to scare us, this

time arriving from over-crowded space in amysterious ball-shaped object. As THE COS-MIC MAN his object is to study us Eartiiians

and remove our gravity altogether if notsatisfied with his findings. Some of the timehe's invisible, other times he's vaguely seenas a ghost-like wraith. He destroys several

million dollars worth of laboratory equip-ment at one point. An arc-light almost getshim at another. See THE COSMIC MAN anddiscover his fate for yourself.

terrorvision

visions

Check your channels for a whole host of

new teleseries from the spooky to the sputnik,

from the phantom to the fathom, such as

—

TWILIGHT ZONE (Rod Serling original

strange tales)

. . . THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (BuddBankson's Vemesque adventure series)

. . . INTO THE UNKNOWN {weird tales

by writers like Ray Bradbury). . . CRATER BASE #1 (lunar adventures

60 years hence as envisioned by such sci-fi

writers as AB van Vogt, Edmond Hamilton,Marion Zimmer Bradley, Weaver Wright,Robert Heinlein, Jack Williamson, -^tc.)

. . TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN (withepisodes by the late Henry Kuttner, the quite

alive Jerome Bixby). . . REPORT FROM SPACE (Ray Brad-

bury','; own series)

. . . STRANGER THAN FICTION (ArtBaker's show of the supernatural)

Fredric March in his Academy AWEIRD Winning rofe in the 1931 version of DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE.

Notre Dome's greatest football player, Lon Chaney.He could kitk a fifty cent piece 100 yards and get oquarterback. (From THE HUNCHBACK Of NOTREDAME.)

This victim of the rodioactive GIANT BEHEMOTHsays, "I never knew a moth could be so menacfngl"

. . . THE HAUNTED (with the great fan-tasy authority Anthony Boucher as storyconsultant)

. . . COUNTDOWN (the sci-fi series con-ceived by William James, with works of ChadOliver, L. Ron Hubbard, Reg Phillips andothers under consideration)

. . , THE WITCH'S TALES (televersionsof the Aionzo Decn Cole radio classics)

. . . CONQUEST OF SPACE (the Rip VanRonkel series developed from the Geo. Palproduction of the same name)

. . . MOON PROBE (starring: Wm. Lundi-gan, space-man of the film RIDERS TO THESTARS)

. . . and — THE FANTASTIC.

moon glowSeems like everybody's headed for the

Moon.Bob Hope and Bing Crosby are battling

over who'll first make it on THE ROAD TOTHE MOON.World-famous comedian Charles Chaplin

himself, in Paris, has announced plans for

A JOURNEY TO THE MOON.Kirk Douglas and Sophia Loren are con-

templating an orbit ONCE AROUND THEMOON.Wonder what they'll find on the Dark Side

of the Moon — a Vice President of ourFamous Monsters Club???

the list roundupHere's a last roundup list for your Black

Book of things to come. Watch for thesethrillers on your marquees and in our futureissues.

THE BEAST FROM ASSUAN.THE STRANGLERfOF BENGALTHE RETURN OF JACK THE RIPPER.NIGHT OF THE GHOULS.THE MAN IN THE RUE NOIR.THE NIGHT PEOPLE (based on Richard

Matheson's vampiric / Am Legend).THE BEHEMOTH ... a 8760,000 pro-

duction.

THE FACE (supematuralism in 1840).VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED.lb J. Melchoir's THE MULTIPLE MAN.Edmond Hamilton's PYGMY ISLAND.THE NOMOGLOD ... the beast from the

brain of Wyott Ordunjr.RETURN FROM THE RIVER STYX.THE DAY THE CHILDREN VANISHED.THE DAY THE ADULTS VANISHED.THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE

DEVIL — last 3 people on earth

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Dean Newman has jusf aged 50 years after being touched by THE 4D MAN, a new hair-raiser by the pro-ducers of THE BLOB. A real skin-wrinkierl

"Now, son, this won't hurt o bit," says tlie dontist to the boy with the tooth problem. "We'll have those dull

fangs sharpened in no time!"

take a breathTHE DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD.ROBOTMAN, USA.INVISIBLE INVADERS.TARZAN, THE APE MAN.H. Rider Haggard's WATUSI.SCENT OF MYSTERY with Peter Lorrc— in scentomascope.

MY WORLD DIES SCREAMING (mys-tery melodrama with the new process, Sub-cep).

THEY LIVED A MILLION YEARS.

The Japanese spectacles. ONI and THEH-MAN.THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS by Guy

Endore.DRACULA IN ISTANBUL.THE SHAGGY DOG (Walt Disney).THE MOUSE THAT ROARED.THE EXPERIMENT OF DR. ZAHN.FRANKENSTEIN FROM SPACE (pos-

sibly in 3D!).MARTIAN FRANKENSTEIN.FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN.HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM.THE CREEPING HAND.THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGAEI.

Son of Kong? No, ifs Golem #4, from the Czechoslovakian production of THE GOLEM AND THE EMPEROR'SBAKER. Now 3 producers announce simultaneousiy that they are about to "roll 'em" on GOLEM version #5.Don't miss FM #S for a Progress Report on "The War of the Golems"!

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Dancers in this Waltz Dixzy production ore Warner Oland (left) and Henry Hull, right. They're doing thathowllngly hot number. The Werewolf Hop. From the woy Henry is holding his partner's face, he would seem

2^ to dig it the most.

nns« stuffad heads nro on dUploy in the Trophy Room of the editor of FAMOUS MONSrMS. The one in the

middle Is of the one ond only reodor who ever criticised on issue of FM. He was formerly o stuffed shirt.

time to

breath againAll in color ; remakes of THE PHANTOM

OF THE OPERA, THE INVISIBLE MAN,THE WOLF-MAN and DR. .TEKYI.L ANDMR. HYDE.TAKEOFF (rocketale by the late Cyrcil

Kornbluth).SHADOW ON THE HEARTH (atomic

dstruction of New York by Judith Merril).

THE TINGLER.THE MAN FROM TOMORROW by Wil.

son Tucker and same author's LONG, LOUDSILENCE.WAKO, THE ABOMINABLE SNOW-

MAN.DEATH COMES FROM SPACE.WITCHCRAFT.THE TIME MACHINE (HGWells wrote

it, both Geo. Pal and Benedict Bogeaus claim

they're going to film it !)

.

JACK, THE GIANT KILLER.RATTLESNAKE (sci-fi horror).

SHADOW MONSTER.BLUEBEARD GENIUS (horror).

KILLER CORPSE.Jules Verne's THE MYSTERIOUS

ISLAND.MAN WHO CAME FROM THE OTHER

WORLD.And THE UNSEEN.

You AXED

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iWe've seen a few Menes from WHITE ZOMBIE, doyou have any from ZOMBIES ON BROADWAY?-ZHAN DARK & HAITI LaMARR, Zanzibar. (Yes, here'sone, in starey-orphonic sound.)

I would like to see u .'ovo of otte oi .i.^ Jiiends in yourmagazine.-I.C. YETI, Peak Inn, Himalayan Mountains.Here he is, a SNOW CREATURE, peekin' out of his cave.Isn't his suit abominable?)

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When A. Marritt's "Burn, Witch,Burnl'^ was filmed (as THE DEVILDOLL) I remember they had an In-

credible Shrrnking Girl in It. I'd like

to see one of those scenes again.—G. GORDON DEWEY. (Here she Is,

Gordon, shrinking In terror fromthe late Henry B. Walthal.)

I remember Lon Choneyand Charles Laughton'sinterpretation of THEHUNCHBACK OF NOTREDAME but missed An-thony Quinn's. Could youshow his makeup? —HUGO VICTOR. (Isn'tTony's face the Quinnt-essence of horror? But,

question; which Quinnhas the Tony?)

I once heard there was a Spanishversion of DRACULA ond would bevery curious to see how the star

compared with Bela Lugosi. If youcan fulfill this wish, I in return will

send you my recipe for bat tamales.

-PHYLLIS FARKAS.(We had to search high and lew to

satisfy your request, and it wasfinally low where we found this

foto of CARLOS VILLARIAS as CountDrocuia: in a casket in Mexico! Wewould appreciate your recipe for

making super-natural tamales, butin order to stuff them with batmeat don't you first have to cast anet over a bot? And unfortuncrtely

we ore fresh out of castanets.)29

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I wond«r if my son "Dynamite" is your youngest fan?He's only 5 but already a vetercm of TV monsters fikeMIGHTY JOE YOUNG, GODZILL4^nd KING KONG. He'so little tee young to write for himself, but I know he'dget o kick out of seeing a picture of King Kong just forhimself—and a couple of thousond other youngsters.—JAMES V. TAURASI.[Wish granted, for "DynamHe" and a couple of hundredthousand like him, give or take a few years, altho guestit would be mostly gtve as if we took away many yearsfrom 5 it would be a very small tyke indeed! Here's abust of Kong as he appeared in all his glory in the fore<court of the world famous Grauman's Chinese theaterIn Hollywood when the public first made its acquaintancewith him, long before Jimmy Tauroti Jr. was bom.)

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The following bits of wits-dumb were lifted from con-dead comments contained in letters from our ribbers, er,

readers. For each cleaver quotation (they're the kind that

cut close to home) we will give the writer a one-way train

ticket to Trainsylvania.

ALICIA ARIA ai Polo Alto, Calif., reports:

"Every time I torn on my TV set I get a re-

vival of great Lugosi film. I'm so happywith my BelaviaionI"

"A thing In my cellar is dripping green on

me," complains MATT RICHARDSON of

Southern Korloffornia. "How do I remove a

Franken-stain?"

"My son Tom is crazy about opefo," an

Indianapolis housewife. MRS. ROBERTA MAEDELL, tells us. "Not monster movies like a

normal boy, not my Tom; no, oil the time

opera. All his schoolmates tease Tom. They

call him the Fan, Tom, of the pera."

"It isn't the cough thot carries you off,

it's the coffin they carry you off in."—JOStMILLER.

"I have a Teensville mania to visit Tran-

sylvanial" confesses DAVID ELYK of Pots-

darn. N. Y.

"I had a dream that was the greatest thrill

of my life. I dreamt I met YOU — Forrest

Ackerman - editor of FAMOUS MONSTERS,and you let me sit on your lap! H v^as the

greatest charge: bolts and volts literally fiew

thru me. Of course, at the time you weresitting in your fovorite electric chair." —SHERRY FARKAS, Phila., Pa.

"Always lurk before you leop!"-SYLVIA

KUMIKO, Hawaii.

"As the vampire-type actor said, 'I'm wait-

ing for a port I can really sink my feeth

into!' "-MIKE ALI KAHN, Reporterjville,

Calif.

"Why is a missile-launching like Dracula

in a coffin? Both require a Count down."—JOMMY KROSZ, Vogt City, Ontario, Canada.

"I just heard a shaggy werewolf story andto my mind that's going too darn fur!" —BARBARA AGBERG.

"I'm confused. After seeing o monster

movie last nite, my girlfriend mumbled some-thing in my ear that sounded like I was a

'fine dish' but do you suppose she could

have been saying 'fiend ish'?"-ZEKE LEPPIN.

"Is it true that tfiere is a skeleton in the

closet of Grace Skully?"-JEANNETTE PER-

KAL-DZIKOWSKI, Alsoce, France.

WARNING TO DRACULAby

SYLVIA TRANSVANIA(age 12)

Droc be 'nimble,

Droc don't quake,

Droc jump over

The candle-stake.

"I sow a doggone good movie the other

nite. It was the super-great grandson of Rin-

Tin-Tin in THE CURS OF FRANKENSTEIN.By Collie, i was terrier-fied, and that's no

bull, dog."-MAX MANDELBAUM, N. Y.

"How are Things at your house?"-EDDIEACKERMAN, Neighborhood Monster Fan

#1 ond no known relation to Forrest J.

Ackerman.

"You know who should hove been the

heroine in BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE? I just

figured it out. Judy Gore-land." - 5ABRAYOLA JARDINE.

"\ think you have the greatest magazine

in the country, and that's where it ought to

stay— in the country. Things ore already

monstrous enough in the big cities."—ROBERTBLOCH. (Of course not the Robert Bloch;

Bobby Bioch of Frog Hollow, Florida.)

"As one ghoul said to another, 'He nibbled

on things man was not meant to gnaw.'"—MIKlE SULLIVAN, Brooklyn.

For each monstrous saying quoted in this department, FM will payfive hundred dracu/ars. This sum will be deposited in the name of the

writer in the First Gnash'nal Bank of Transylvania.

im-ho-tep

3727 years old

Tlu'v wrapped Boi-is Kaof i-ottins praii

For 6 fioiu

and still going strong! "

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The Original Mummy, Boris Karlott, awake again after a nap of nearly 4000 years. If you want to looklike this, don't miss seeing the mask advertised on page 391

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One eye was all Lon Chaney.could use in his costumefor THE MUMMY'S CURSE, so when he got a speckof dust in It, Virginia Christine, his leading lady,went to his rescue immediately.

Without casting any reflections on Boris,'we bet theimage in the mirror is more attractive than he I

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man into mummyEgypt. The great desert, burial place of

the ancient kings. Three men are seekingknowledge of the past—Sir Joseph Whempie,leader of the expedition ; young Norton, his

assistant; and Dr. Muller, a famous Egyp-tologist.

An exciting discovery is made : an unknowntomb is uncovered ; within it, a crumblingmummy-casket and a mysterious sealed

golden box.

Upon close examination, an unusual fact is

noted about the mummy in the casket: theusual scar made by the embalmer's knife wasnot there, indicating that the man died in

some sensationally unpleasant manner —struggling in his bandages — buried alive!

"He was sentenced to death not only ifi this

world," interprets Dr. Muller, "but the next,"as he explains the meaning of the missingsacred spells which have been chipped off thecoffin. "This man, Im-ho-tep, must have beencondemned for some grave offense against thePharaoh, for which he was doomed to a living

death, sent to the Underworld (what theEgyptians called the Afterlife) without pro-tection for his sou! on the long and perilous

journey."Sir Whemple and his assistant are eager to

open the golden box, which they believe maycontain the answer to the mystery, but Dr.Muller warns against it, translating the dire

threat written on its cover

:

not to be

opened-ever"Death! Eternal puniskme-nt for anyone

who opens this casket. In the name of AmonRa, King of the Gods" reads the ominouswarning, signed by Pharaoh Amenophis.

Sir Joseph is annoyed. "I recognize yourmastery of the occult sciences." he states,

"still I cannot permit your beliefs to interfere

with my work."Young Norton chimes in: "Come, Dr.

Muller, surely a few thousand years in the

earth can take the mumbo-jumbo off any old

curse?"Dr. Muller is disgusted by Norton's youth-

ful ignorance. "Tscka. I cannot speak beforea child!" he groans. "Come out under the

stars of Egypt ..." And as he departs in

anger, his last words are : "Do not touch that

casket!"But Sir Joseph and his assistant cannot

help speculating about their enormous find.

They have reason to believe they may havediscovered the Scroll of Thoth itself, the great

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"Now drink your tana soup," says John Carradlno, "and thon we'll go to the movies

in THE MUMMY'S GOOSE."and see Ronald Dvck

Willy Pogany, internationally famous t

MUMMY should look. Wizord, what?i a |3ortroii he created to show the makeup men how THE

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"No sacrifice is too gretitl" soys Gaorga Zucco to this Handy Mummy.

apell by which Isia raised Osiris from the

dead.Alone that night, Norton can control his

impatience no longer. The ancient gods of

Egypt still live in these hills, roam the sacred

temples? The spells of the past are weakerbut some still potent? He dismisses Dr.

MuIIer's beliefs as superstition, decides to

risk opening the forbidden box.

Inside, Norton makes an exciting dis-

covery: it is indeed the formula for bringingthe dead back to life. He muses over it aloud,

repeating the all-powerful words of re-birth.

And—

life returnsThe mummy's hand, in the case nearby,

moves about the length of an ant. It is not alarge move, to be sure, but it is a terrify-

ingiy significant one, for it is the first sign of

life in the mummy for 3700 years!A finger stirs a fraction of an inch and a

fed grains of dust trickle down the rotted

wrappings.One of Im-ho-tep's eyes flickers ; they open

slowly, painfully to life.

Noted Egyptologist Walter J. Daughertyreported at the time : "This is the top screen

chill I have ever had, this heart-stopping

moment when The Mummy comes to life."

A San Francisco newspaper reporter ob-

served : "Children whooped and hollered at

the opening night performance." (The teen-

age sons and daughters of those chilled chil-

dren of 1932 are no doubt holding this

magazine in their hands right now!) "Thepicture's thrills are strong enough to satisfy

the most exacting juvenile critics and its plot

and treatment ^ong the lines of the Tut-Ankh-Amen curse are more than suflUcient

for adults."

meanwhile, back

at the tombYoung Norton ages into old Norton in a

horror-padted half-second as he glances upto find the Living Mummy at his side, handoutstretched, saying, "Good evening, my

iTsTANAlfoFliMfAWif!

"Hm, the Tano soup is just a wee bit too hot. Better throw o cold chill into it."

name's Im-ho-tep; couJd you direct me to thenearest pyramid?"

Well, the dialogue didn't run exactly likethat (and, after all, an editor's memory canbe forgiven for getting hazy after 27 years)

,

but Norton really did go off his rocker whenKarloff shuffled out of his upright coffiin andover to the table. The shock was so great thatNorton burst into hysterical laughter. Hismind snapped at the unbelievable sight, andhe died some time later, still laughingmaniacly.

Years pass. Young Frank, son of SirJoseph Whemple, follows in his Father's foot-steps, footsteps which inevitably lead him toEgypt and a discovery of his own: the tombof the Princess Anck-es-en-amon.

Dr. Muller is still alive, and currently is

treating a beautiful young woman of English-Egyptian parentage, Helen Grosvenor, forsome mysterious mental illness.

The agmg Sir Joseph is now head of theCairo Museum, and one evening at closingtime addresses a guest who is lingering overthe glass-protected mummy-ease of the newlyarrived Princes Anck-es-en-amon. "Excuseme," replies the museum visitor in a strangeaccent, his deeply wrinkled leathery skinalmost mask-like, "I had not noticed thepassage of time." Then, recognizing SirJoseph: "You may have forgotten, but wehave met before. My name is Ardath Bey."

Sir Joseph remembers Bey alright: it washe who had appeared out of nowhere yearsago, right after Im-ho-tep disappeared, andvolunteered information leading to the dis-

covery of the Princess' burial place. SirJoseph is about to lay a friendly arm ofremembrance on Bey when the Egyptianshudders slightly and steps back, excusinghimself: "I dislike to be touched."Ardath Bey departs down a corridor. Sir

Joseph locks up for the night and joins his

son who is waiting in a car outside. As theyare about to drive away —

women of mysteryA young woman (Helen Grosvenor) rushes

up to the museum doors and vainly seeksentry. Frank Whemple goes to see what sheA-antt. She faints at his touch and he rushes

her honu> where .tihe comes to but stares un-seeingly, like a zombie, and mutters:

"Im-ho-tep . . . Snofru Nebmaet . . . Ib-ho-tep. Udi Hosapti—

"

Frank does not recognize the language."What tongue is she speaking?" he asks.

Sir Joseph is visibly shaken. He replies

:

"The language of ancient Egypt, not heardon this earth |or two thousand years — andthe name of a man unspoken since before thesiege of Troy!"

Just then. Dr. Muller arrives. He takes SirJoseph aside and they have a private discus-sion. Muller confronts Whemple with theknowledge that he knows that the Princessmummy newly added to the museum is thesame Anck-es-en-amon whom Im-ho-tep tried

ZIOO years ago to raise from the dead and forthat reason was condemned to death himself.

' At that moment the phone rings and SirJoseph learns:

mystery at the museumA museum guard has been found dead. In

the room of the Princess

!

The cause of death is diagnosed as

—

shock!And there is another shock in store for Sir

Joseph and Dr. Muller when, on the scene ofthe strange death, an overlooked parchmentis found. As Dr. Muller recognizes the docu-ment, his face pales and freezes with horror."It is the Scroll of Thoth!" he stammers.During the absence of Dr. Muller and his

Father, Frank Whemple has been gettingacquainted with the revived Miss Grosvenor.She laughs when he tells her there is some-thing about her that reminds him of themummy of the Princess he discovered in theValley of the Queens, the one now on displayin the museum. She dismisses the coincidencelightly with, "Probably imagination andracial likeness,"

Frank Rska her why she is a patient of Dr.Muller's. Helen confesses she doesn't quiteknow, except that she has felt strangelydrawn to the museum and he has been tryingto And out why.Frank has never believed in love at first

sight, but he finds himself incredibly at-

tracted to this strange young women, andshe seems to feel something for him in return.

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"Ha, the mad fools, they doubted I'd ever get a HEAD in my careerl"

GREETINGS! Uncle Drac wants you, Zach, in the Transylvanlan Navyl

zacherly!

The name rhymes with "hack her knee,"and that's just what Zach is liable to do to

his television wife, Isobel, if she doesn't be-have bad enough to suit him. He might evensic Gasport on her, the unseen monster thathe keeps confined in a potato sack. (Potatoes,

as you know, have eyes ! and it is rumoredthat the creature in Zach's sack is actually a

giant mutant potato-bug with a million eyes!Why else would Isobel reply "that bugs me"when he tells her to "hit the sack"?)

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greatest since

drac

The Zacherley fans — and they are legion— are proclaiming their TV leader the cool-

est ghoul since Bela Lugosi began quenchinghis thirst with hot Eviltine. In his previousincarnation, when he was known as HostRoland, Zacherley took, fiendish delight in

searing the nite-lites out of Philadelphia-fansof SHOCK. Then he temporarily disappearedfrom the Pennsylvania telecasting area andduring his absence a spy for FAMOUS MON-STERS reported him as seen "vacationing"in Transylvania, where he is known to havebeen the castle-guest of a certain distin-

guished Count of a very old blood-line.

bi jekyll

built for twoHyde-like, Host Roland rode off as one

man — and returned as another! But his

fame preceded him from Philly to New York,via station WABC-TV, proving the old

Shakespearean adage that, in this Ad Age,

"a rogue by any other name will sell," andthe Zacherley fans are certainly sold on their

horror hero. They just feel sorry for the rest

of the country that there's only one Zacherleyand he hasn't gone network — yet — butthey're working on it. The Philadelphia areaalone boasted 800 fan clubs for Zach; his

New York adorers are bound to boost the

figure to at least twice that.

"Whcii cii-e these tarantulas doing in my beaker?I ordered scorpions!"

What other SHOCK Star can hold a candle toZacherley?

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Well, that ain't ex-Zacherley the nearest BE NEATsign we ever teen. But what can you expect vrhenyou buy from a Beastnlk in Greenwitch Vlllose?

monster mail

The monstrous amount of mail thatZacherley receives rivals the sacks that arrivedaily (and nitely) at the offices of FM forDr. Acula. By special arrangement with theDead Letter Office, we bring you excerptsfrom Zacheriey's corpse-spondence

:

"I am writing this letter to bring to yourattention one of Transylvania's fastest grow-ing hobbies, raising maggots for fun andprofit."—Mr. TK, Rego Park, NY.

"I must commend you on your medicalknowledge. Old TMU (Transylvania MedicalUniversity) certainly teaches its studentswell for you to cut up a brain like an expert.I was quite a cut-up myself, till the age of 3,

when my Mother took away my scissors be-cause she thought the voodoo dolls werebeginning to look uncomfortably like mykinder-guardian teacher."—Mr. WS, Wood-side, N.Y."Who is the barber who gives you your

sensational gruecuts?"—DZ, Perth Amboy,NJ.

"Roses are red . . , Cabbage is green . , ,

Your head is shaned . . . Like a washing ma-chine."—Mr. PH, Vampire Unit 357V2,Brooklyn. NY.

"I profited from your instructions on howto wrap a mummy. Looking forward to nextArmistice Day, would you please demonstratehow to wrap a poppy?"—LB, Westfield, NJ.

"Zach, you thrill be to the very marrow

!

I would have written this testimony in bloodbut I was thirsty."—VA, Chatham, NJ.

Lying down on the job (in this case a black coffin)is part of Zach's act. zach's own

fiend club

Eleven days after he invited his fans to

join a creepy club created just for them, hehad 13,800 memberships! When he invitedcardholders to come to the Studio to meet himin person, he anticipated a top of perhaps2000 — but traffic was blocked for milesaround the station when approximately13,000 boys, girls and grownups turned upfor the occasion in everything from skates to

Cadillacs! The Zacherley National Anthem("Dinner with Drac," a recording of whichhe has sold over 250,000 copies) was played,

and thereafter he gave a lecture on Tranayl-vanian Terms for the Tourist, handy little

phrases to have at one's fang-tips such as

"Oily to bed and oily to rise makes Donovan's Brain super wise," says Zach.

zach's facts"the akull of my Aunt is in the garden" and"which way — quick — to the nearest wolf-bane store?" When he made a plea that hiswife Isobel needed a new pillow for hercoffin, and 3 hairs apiece would be appre-ciated from every Tom, Dick and Hairy whocould spare them, some 23,000 letters werereceived — a new world's record in hair-mail

!

At last count Mrs. Zacherley had 68,997 hairsbut then she sneezed on them and had to

start counting all over again.

There is no truth to the rumor that in real

life this great Master of Scarymonies is really

Zacherley Scott, the movie actor. He's a 40-

year-old Pennsylvania-bom bachelor whoserved in World War II as a captain in theQuartermaster Corps. He saw service in Eng-land, Italy and North Africa — plenty ofreal horror.One bit of advice to Anxious Parents: if

you don't want your child to grow up to bea (rich famous successful) Monster of Cere-monies like Zacherley, better let him or hersee all the monster movies now. For Zacherleyhas one amazing revelation of his youth

:

"When I was a youngster my Mother neverlet me see horror pictures!" A

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warning: don't cross chris or he'll sic

dracenstein and frankula on you!

about it. Hc'.l karl' to l)|. tii fill Ihp sho,both Boris KarlofT and Bola I.URosi in a s

rURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN anti thonportrayinp the vampiric Count in HORROROF DRACn.A within tht snare of 12

Bram Stoker's blood-thirsty b-' — - - '-'

it is nnlikolv that bo oven s:

STEIN or nRACn.A when no was a cniin,as children in England (tbe land of bis birtb)

I sLibtoen that one day HE wolecome Mary Shelley's creen\

Monster Frankenstein departs from the usual custom of reading In a chair or bed and reclines In a bathtubinstead. What a screwy stunt to PLUG o picture I

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AThe Man Behind fhe Makeups: the mild MrChristopher Lee.

Dracu-Lee carries off Valerie Gaunt, who faintedafter reading one of his booics bound in bat skin,

it seems the bat was still alive.

interesting

ancestryBorn of English-Italian parents, Lee claims

to be able to trace his family line as far backas — the Borgias I If you recall your history,

these folks were a frightfully bloody lot. Youmight say Lee is now making a profession ofportraying a "twisted limb" on the familytree. His latest role is that of a grave-robberin THE DOCTOR FROM 7 DIALS. The doc-

tor is played by none other than the HorrorKing himself, Karloff. As Boris' body-snatch-ing assistant, Chris Lee is grotesque andghoulish, with a pock-marked face that is

anything but a pretty sight.

Oddly enough, his fans love him. Afterportraying Count Dracula as a lonely andtragic figure, he began to receive reams of

romantic fan mail. It poured in like rain onthe roof of a haunted house.You would almost have thought Rudolph

Valentino had been resurrected.Speaking of rebirths, Lee plays Resurrec-

tion Joe in THE DOCTOR FROM 7 DIALS.

from hero

to horrorOr, from real horror to reel horror. For

Chris Lee was in World War 2. He flew

danger-fraught skies as a fighter pilot. Buthis head was never quite so much in the skiesas the day he learned he had landed thecoveted role of the Creature in THE CURSEOF FRANKENSTEIN, first Frankensteinmade in color.

After that, it was up and off to the Studioat the crack of dawn, to endure 4 hours ofdisfigurement at the skilled hands of themakeup artist, that turned him from hand-some man into horrible monster. "No wonderFranky was cranky when his maker finished

putting him together," Lee once said. "I couldunderstand exactly how he felt and sympa-thize with him."

"But I'm not really evil," Mr. Lee hastensto assure his FM admirers. "It's just a job,

which I enjoy doing, but I don't 'take mywork home with me,' .so to speak."We should hope not! Home to Mr. Lee is,

according to a lucky girl named Sarah Stod-dart who's been there, "a well-furnished lair

in a lush London flat."

In the privacy of his own home, unlike theaverage Englishman th^ very unaverage Mr.Lee sometimes sports red sox. (Or were theyoriginally white and took on their crimsoncolor after he waded in you-know-what fromhis last experiment?)

Above,|ob is

about midway in the 4-hour-iong process of turning Chris Lee into Frank Lee A. Monster. Thecomplete for his role In THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN.

hurrah for horrorThe question has been raised to Mr. Ijee

whether he believes the kind of creatures hebetrays are good for people to behold. He hasa ready answer. "In my opinion, a couple ofrealistic films such as Waterfront or TheBlackboard Jungle can cause more hoodlumtrouble than a dozen horror films. If an easily

influenced juvenile or adult can identify him-self with a character on the screen he will betempted to copy him. But except for Hal-lowe'en parties and masquerades, nobodywould care to be a Frankenstein or Draciala— not full time, not in real Irfe."

And do you know, all kidding aside, he's

right? In a quarter of a century or more sinceFranky and Dracula started cutting up thecountryside, plenty of juvenile and grownupdelinquents have made disgraceful front pagenews, but FRANKENSTEIN & DRACULAhave always stayed within the confines wherethey belong, the movie ads section of thenewspaper.Lee concludes; "Horror is pure escapism

and rattling good entertainment if directedwith skill and polish."

dinner with draculaLate last year some lucky monster movie

fan living In England got to be the guest ofthe new Pracula at a dinner date. To win this

honor he (or maybe it turned out to be a she)had only to answer a dozen questions on-ceminR such familiar films as THE CREA-TURFFROM THE BLACK LAGOON, THEFLY, THEM!. KING KONG. FORBIDDENPLANET INVASION OF THE BOYSNATCHERS. and THE QUATERMASSEXPERIMENT (known in the USA as THECREEPING UNKNOWN), questions whichany alert reader of FAMOUS MONSTERScould have easily answered with one tentacle

tied behind his back. The contest was spon-sored by a long established national weeklyperiodical. Unfortunately the time limit ex-

pired before any American reader could sub-mit an entry, otherwise some FM readermight have dined with Bela Lugosi's auc-

HOUNDS OF THE BASKERVILLES will

be Christopher Lee's next horror film. In caseyou're not familiar with the title, it's a

shocking story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,who created Sherlock Holmes and wrote THELOST WORLD long before anybody but youreditor was bom.After that, who knows? THE CABINET

OF DR. CALIGARI ? SEVEN FOOTPRINTSTO SATAN? RETURN OF THE MUMMY?Or, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS DRACULA— with Christopher Lee playing both parts

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LAST CHANCE9ubleeners qnd Franken's-teeners, lots from two to

t««na9«rt about to turn 20— hare's your gheulden

oporlunily to hav* fun making younclf up a* amonrter!

You've leen how rl was done with Thod Swift Jr.

(THE BOY WHO BECAME A MONSTER)— now try >t

yourself or have et friend make you up. Have a go«dtiear foto of yourielf taken and mail it to u« at soon

ai poMible together with your name, age, addmt,what you coll yourself in the picture or what char-

acter you repretenl, and the name of your friend

in caie someone else made you up. Besides getting

your picture published in FAMOUS MONSTERS jf

you're one of our 5 favorite monsters, you'll gel a

free Lifetime Subscription to FM (and that could

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The Lifetime Subscriptions are for Winners whomake themselves up with whatever materials they

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LAD THAD TO HELP DECIDE

Swifty Jr, who's olready been thru the mill andknows what it takes to turn into a monster, wilt be

one of the 3 judges of the contest. The 3d will be the

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If you order a MONSTER make-up kit (the $4.95

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When you've made yourself up and hod your pic-

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See you next issue!

"Jewels" Verne, gentleman on the right, attemptstempt the Man Aging Editor of FAMOUS MONSTERS, i

Phyllis Farkos isn't falling for any old clang's pearls, sh;,'

prefers the clammy pearls of whixzdom in the magazinewhich is being so avidly perused by her old skull-mate.

Monster Club Vice President Peter Speckeras seen in normal dress (left), and In make-up as a human (right). That human-typemake-up is pretty realistici

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should have said underneoth was: "Oh, please take mypicturel" begs the Corpuscle Creature. "If you do, I mightget my face published in FAMOUS MONSTERS and befomous over nite!" The girl seems doubtful. "Thafs aface? Anyway, getting your foto printed in such an im-portant magazine wouldn't be a snapl"

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Ardath Bey, the man solely respon-sible for the finding of the tomb ofPrincess Anck-es-en-amon, was in

the Princess' room in the museumshortly before the guard was founddead there : more than coincidenceto Dr. Muller. In short, Dr. Mullerbelieves Ardath Bey was the causeof the guard's death, had the Scroll

but lost it while fleeing.

The crux of this belief is : ArdathBey and Im-ko-tep are one and thesame, the 3700 year dead mummyrestored to life!

Frank is shocked, his Fatherhorrified.

FURTHER SHOCKSStartingly, the voice of Ardath

is heard in the next room, and the3 men go there to find him in con-versation with Helen, who almostappears to be in a trance. Dr.Muller takes command of the situa-

tion, urging Frank to take Helenhome. When the doctor and Sir

Joseph are alone with Ardath Bey,Muller springs a surprise on theEgyptian, showing him a certain

foto. "My assistant took that pic-

ture of the mummy of Im-ho-tepbefore it was stolen," Sir Josephsays.

Dr. Muller adds: "Do you thinkit conceivable that the mummy wasnot stolen but restored to a sem-blance of life by the spell from theScroll of —

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Bey's face bursts into hate andrage. He snatches the foto, tears it

in two. "The scroll is rightfullymine," he declares. "I bought it

from a dealer. I sense that it is heresomewhere."The Egyptian points his right

hand at Sir Joseph. Lig^t gleamsfrom a ring-of-power on his middlefinger. Sir Joseph collapses in achair.

Dr. Muller breaks the spell, de-claring: "We had foreseen this!

The Scroll of Thoth is in safe handsand will be destroyed the momentit is known that harm has come to

us."

Ardath, whom they now know to

be the revived Im-ho-tep, speaksslowly. "You have studied our an-cient arts. You know that you can-not harm me— you know also thatyou must restore that scroll to meor die. Muller, tell that weak fool

to get that scroll, wherever it is, andhand it to his Nubian servant—

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"Ah, yes, the Nubian," Mullermurmurs understandingly. "Theancient blood—you have made him

your slave. I admit your power is

too strong for me, but if I could getmy hands on you / could break yourdried flesh to pieces.'"

The living mummy only bowsbrittlely and, momentarily de-feated, leaves the house.

DESTROY THE DOCUMENTI""The evil force that has been at-

tacking Helen," Dr. Muller realizesaloud, "is that accursed Mummy!Bum the scholl, Whemple; it wasthru you that this horror came intoexistence— destroy it at once

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Sir Joseph dazedly agrees asMuller leaves.

But the sinister soul of Im-ho-tep, which had survived thru 37hundred agonizing years, was notto be deprived of salvation by aslender match in the weak hands ofan old man. In the inner court ofhis house, moving waters in a poolclouded and assumed changingshapes at his will; and beside thispool Im-ho-tep knelt, saw SirJoseph bend toward the fireplace,

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"Anck-es-en-amon, of the Houseof the Hawk Kings, my love haslasted longer than the temples ofour gods. No man ever suffered asI suffered for you. But you may notknow the rest— not until you areabout to pass thru the great nightof terror and triumph— until youare ready to face moments ofhorror for an eternity of love —until I send back your spirit thathas wondered thru so many formsand 30 many ages. But before then,Bast the Cat Goddeas must againsend forth death—death for FrankWhemple, who would steal yourlove from me!"THE PAST LIVES AGAIN

Im-ho-tep spirits Helen to themuseum, there clothes her and him-self in the ancient temple garmentsand intones a spell from a scrollwhose edges flicker with phantomflames. In a magic mirror Helensees herself as the Princess she wasnearly 4000 years ago when sheshared a forbidden love with Im-ho-tep and her Father, the Pha-raoh, sentenced him to the Name-less Death.

Im-ho-tep returns Helen's atten-tion to the present and directs herto look upon the mummy of thePrincess, the shell which her ownsoul once inhabited. She recoils inhorror as Im-ho-tep explains: "Icould return it to life now but it

would be a mere thing that movedat my will without a soul. It wasnot only this body that I loved, it

was thy soul, oh Princess. Come,to be reborn and live with me forall eternity!"

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But Helen becomes terrified asshe ia led to the altar of Anubis,the Guide of the Dead. When sheattempts to flee, she is captured byIm-ho-tep's slave and forced ontothe embalming slab. Im-ho-tepkneels beside her, knife in crum-bling hand, and chants

:

"The gods! The gods will re-ceive into the underworld the spiritof Anck-ea-en-amon, but not forlong—Osiris will release thy soul.The ancient rites must be per-formed over thy body, and then I

will read the great gpell with whichIsia brought back Osiris from thegrave. Thou shalt rise again—

"

"No, no!" screams the terrifiedgirl. "I'm alive, I'm young, i won'tdie! I loved you once, but now youbelong with the dead. I'm Anck-es-en-amon, but I'm alive in a youngfresh body; I'm someone else in astrange new world, and I wan tolive in it."

THE POWER OF ISIS

At the end of the room a greatstatue of Isis towers. Summoningher strength, Helen runs to theGoddess Idol and flings herself atits feet, praying frantically in theancient tongue

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"Sehotpe-ib-re Mem-mosut Sit-sekem!"

Im-ho-tep, knife raised to plungeit into Helen, is frozen in terror asthe right arm of the idol slowlymoves! Isis offers to Helen the cruxansata, the all-powerful symbol ofEternal Life.

And to Im-ho-tep, who sought totake the life of her priestess, lais

offers — death!A jagged bolt of blinding light

leaps forth from the goddess, strik-ing the Mummy and disintegratinghim.

Im-ho-tep \r no more.

Ah, yes, Im-ho-tep Was no more— but there was Kharis. He wasfirst heard of 8 years later, in1940, when Universal made THEMUMMY'S HAND.Tom Tyler played Kharis, prince

of ancient Egypt who was buriedalive because he angered the godsby stealing the Leaves of Life, theforbidden tana leaves.

For 300C years Kharis lives on.He protects the tomb of his belovedAnanka, ready to bring death toanyone who disturbs the restingplace of the royal princess.

George Zucco, as Andoheb, learnsthe secret of Kharia' immortality,and controls him via the life-reviv-ing iXLna leaves. But when Andohebis finally killed in a strugglein an Egyptian temple, the LivingMummy is at last destroyed.

THE MUMMY SHAMBLES AGAINDid we say destroyed? A brief

2 years later he is back again, in

THE MUMMY'S TOMB, this timewith Turhan Bey lurking aroundthe tomb and the Mummy promis-ing to love, honor and o-Bey him if

he'll just give him one more tanaleaf.

Two years later, 1944, it was"vir-tually the same story all over ajfain.

with Lon Chanev. Jr. as THEMUMMY'S GHOST. John Carra-dine played Youssef Bey in this

one. Kharis, although he died 2pictures a(?o, is mysteriously backin this one. hale (?) and heartv(?) and stili madly in love withthe unliving mummy of PrincessAnanka, whose soul is currently re-

incarnated as Amina Mansori, MissMansori unfortunately comes to asorry end when she is carried into

swamp waters by Kharis, and herbody turns to dust, thus turningher into one of those Instant MudPies you've heard so much about.

By now the Mummy was beingwrapped in tin foil to keep himfresh and ready for use. Within 12

months Kharis (again Lon Chaney,Jr.) was back on the job. In THE'MUMMY'S CURSE, Kharis andthe Princess Ananka are accident-

ally dug up out of the bayous. Dr.

Hzor Zandaab, who is actually anEgyptian priest, learns of this andseeks out the body of Kharis, whichhe revives. (The Princess herself

revived the minute the sun fell onher, turning her back from a

mammy into a beautiful woman.)Three people lose their lives in

this Mummy episode before Kharisis "destroyed" for the third timeand Ananka returns to her ancientmummy state for the .second.

THE MUMMY'S WORSTQuiet for 10 years, the Mummy

was last revived in 1955 to meet its

mostawful fate of all : it met Abbott& OHtello. In ABBOTT & COS-TELLO MEET THE MUMMY, theLiving Mummy and A&C tangle in

tombs and passageways with crookswho are attempting to steal a treas-

ure. The Mummy performed withwhat were described as "frog-like

gaaps, reminding one of The Crea-ture from the Dry Oasis." He waseventually dynamited to — death?No, no, not that — your editor is

now preparing a script whereineach of the separate and individual

mummy fragments are broughtback to life (by technicolor tana

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