SON OF MONSTER MASH HC (07 Oct Release)

All new! All grue! It's the long-awaited sequel to author/designer Mark Voger's Rondo Award-winning book “Monster Mash: The Creepy¸ Kooky Monster Craze in America 1957-1972” which redefined Monster Kid fandom with a visually immersive graphic approach. This companion book revisits the period¸ while examining its literary and cinematic roots of its fictional precedents (Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein¸” Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”); early silent films (“Cabinet of Dr. Caligari¸” “Nosferatu”); the golden age of monster movies (with such stars as Lon Chaney Sr.¸ Bela Lugosi¸ Boris Karloff and Chaney Jr.); the 3-D and teenage monster movie trends; the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations and Hammer Studios releases of the period; the monsters of Sixties TV; the eye-popping toys¸ memorabilia and comics; and the aftermath of the influential Monster Craze. It features interviews with filmmakers such as Ray Harryhausen (“20 Million Miles to Earth”)¸ Roger Corman (“The Pit and the Pendulum”)¸ and stars like Gloria Stuart (“The Invisible Man”)¸ Ricou Browning (“Creature From the Black Lagoon”)¸ Haruo Nakajima (“Godzilla”)¸ Jonathan Haze (“Little Shop of Horrors”)¸ Hazel Court (“Curse of Frankenstein”)¸ Kathryn Leigh Scott (“House of Dark Shadows”)¸ Robert Quarry (“Count Yorga¸ Vampire”) and many others. No monster fan should be without this treasure trove of terror!