Creepy Classics

Hardcover with dust jacket. 310 pages. Beautiful, packed with history and rare photos. Paramount: City of Dreams brings to life the operations of the world's grandest movie lot as never before by opening its famous gates and revealing, for the first time, a wonderful myriad of soundstages and sets.

By Frank Dello Stritto. The accomplished writer and film historian issues forth a 500+ page volume on the back history of Universal's Mummy Kharis. Historical fiction that dives deep into the background of The Mummy. Packed with photos and illustrations. Dust jacket and autographed by author.

The beautiful McFarland cloth-hardback edition of this great book on Paul Blaisdell. The man who made monsters for the movies: IT! THE TERROR FROM BEYOND SPACE, FROM HELL IT CAME. INVASION OF THE SAUCERMEN, IT CONQUERED THE WORLD, SHE-CREATURE and more. Bio, photos and life of a genius! 290 pages.

The science fiction sensation! Perry Rhodan series #20: The Thrall of Hypno. 1972 Ace paperback first edition. Book is tight, appears new and unread. Just normal age tanning. Excellent condition!

1911 first USA edition. Obviously the illustrations were used as basis for the Lon Chaney film.The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911. Illustrated by Andre Castaigne with one single-page and four double-page inserted plates with color illustrations. Click image to see close-ups on interior. No dust jacket.

By Phillip Riley. The history of the 1925 Chaney classic. Info on footage cut from the film’s release that was considered too horrible for audiences in 1925? Contributions by Mary Philbin and Ray Bradbury. Script, info, rare photos! Giant, three times the size of other filmbooks.

The history of science fiction films....from FRANKENSTEIN, THE INVISIBLE MAN, WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE THING, CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, TV sci-fi and so much more. By Jeff Rovin, super fan and historian. Packed with great photos. Excellent condition.

Large hardback with dust jacket from 1969. Appears new and unread. By Irving Settel and William Laas. Television from its beginnings through the present with hundreds of photos of its colorful personalities and programs. Jackie Gleason, Rod...

A vintage edition of Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Undated Modern Library edition with soft leather style cover. In excellent condition with usual page tanning. Preface by Basil Hallward. Very old name plate of owner on inside front...

A fantastic classic Scholastic book by Astrid Lindgren from 1973. Originally written in 1950, this perennial kid's book was issued by Scholastic in '73. The bodacious young girl by the name of Pipi Longstocking is willing to face any crazy challenge! Pen and ink illustrations throughout.

A classic fantastic Scholastic paperback from 1968 by Virginia Sorensen. A sensitive book on the Amish and a young girl's experience in the backwoods of Pennsylvania. Nice shape, just a blacked out student name on the inside front cover. Excellent illustrations.

The original classic novel in hardback form with dust jacket. Originally issued in 1963, this is the 2000 edition by Cinema Classics.

New, not used. Full color graphic novel. A brand new story in classic movie continuity! The ferociousness of the apes' plans against humans is revealed. As humans face oppressive tactics not seen in centuries, they choose to fight with newfound viciousness!

From Phillip Riley's classic Magic Image series...this special volume is all full color. Over 200 posters, lobby cards of classic monster movie promotional art. From THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923) through THIS ISLAND EARTH (1954). Universal's classic monsters in full color! Packed!

By Tom Weaver. These low-budget movies with their all-star horror casts (Carradine, Lugosi, Karloff, et al.) and their ape men, mad monsters, devil bats and white zombies still have a loyal audience 50 years after their release.

From THE LOST WORLD to ONE MILLION B.C. to TV show's like IT'S ABOUT TIME! A description of each film or show provides background and lots of photos. Contemporary critical commentary is included for many of the works. Your guide to the Stone Age on the screen! Over 300 pages!

A classic fantastic Scholastic paperback by Steve Gelman from 1968. Football history and photos with all the big names. Appears unread, tight spine!

Rare! Color plates with 100 full color rare covers reproduced. Over 50 complete sties by Edgar Wallace, H.P. Lovecraft, Dashiell Hammett, Ray Bradbury and others. 238 pages. A "best of" for sensational pulp stories and art. Illustrated with original black and white drawings.