Creepy Classics & Monster Bash News
It's our latest offerings, and a look ahead at cool classic monster, horror, & science fiction releases & MONSTER BASH events!
Wednesday May 7 - Thursday May 8, 2025
32 Creepy Years in Business!
TODAY'S MONSTER BASH PHAN FOTO: An electric gorilla in a space helmet. That's something you don't see everyday! It's ROBOT MONSTER (1953).
New! The Rare Version of the NIGHTMARE OF ECSTASY Ed Wood Book
The life and art of the enigmatic Ed Wood! It's all here, the stories and the photos:
NIGHTMARE OF ECSTASY: LIFE AND ART OF EDWARD WOOD, JR. (Feral House 1st 1992) - Used Softcover Book
The most collectible version of this book - the 1st Edition from Ferel House in 1992 by Rudolph Grey. It's the life and films of the most infamous director of low, low budget films. Packed with accounts and rare photos from the films, behind-the-scenes, and personal snaps. Bela Lugosi, Vampira, Tor Johnson, Conrad Brooks...all live in these pages.Some shelf wear, but the book spine is tight. 231 pages.
Scoop this up before another collector does! It's in our on-line Creepy Bookstore at Creepy Classics.
New! THE HAUNTED PALACE is Back On DVD
Vincent Price, Lon Chaney, and Debra Paget lurk here in A.I.P.'s classic on DVD:
THE HAUNTED PALACE (1963) - DVD
Vincent Price stars in this tale of unspeakable horrors from the pen of H.P. Lovecraft. The title comes from a Poe poem, but the story is "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by Lovecraft. Ancient evil and possession in a spooky old castle. Price plays the descendant of a warlock and the townspeople are pretty darn uneasy about him moving into his ancestor's neighborhood. The town is populated by strange mutants from the warlock's first go-round! Lon Chaney Jr. in one of his best later roles, plays Simon, the castle caretaker.
Locate this in our New DVD Department at Creepy Classics today.
Rare Collectible! Oversize Large AIP Promo Card For TV Stations in the 1970s
Sent to just TV stations, a promo pitch card for A.I.P. television packages:
A.I.P. TV Package Ad (Original) - 9x13 inch 1970s TV Station Promo Card Collectible
Issued to just TV stations in the 1970s. A large promo card promoting American International TV packages. 9 x 13 inch original promo card. Offers to TV stations various programming packages including: THE AVENGERS, JOHNNY SOKKO & HIS FLYING ROBOT, SINBAD JR., FANTASTIC SCI-FI THEATRE, THE WORLD OF THE MACABRE, and more.
Just one available and it's resting peacefully in our Collectibles Department waiting to be adopted by you from Creepy Classics.
Back In Stock! Jack Arnold's THE SPACE CHILDREN on DVD and Blu-Ray
An often overlooked science fiction classic from the director of CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON and IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE:
THE SPACE CHILDREN (1958) - DVD or Blu-Ray
Stars Michael Ray, Adam Williams, Peggy Webber, Johnny Wasbrook, Jackie Coogan and Russell Johnson. A huge, glowing alien brain materializes in a hidden cave near a military base. The children of scientists working on the base discover the creature which telepathically begins to control them. Much to the surprise of their parents, the kids begin working on ways to thwart a rocket launch for the alien. Russell Johnson (the professor from Gilligan's island and a host of 50s sci-fi films) plays against his usual character. He's a mean, rotten drunk in this film!
Get yours from Creepy Classics today!
Sign-Up Now! The 2025 MONSTER BASH FILM FEST at Canton's grand Palace Theatre
The movies, the vendor tables, the beautiful historic, restored theatre!
It will be a ghostly time for all! The beautiful theatre, itself, is said to be haunted.
See the details and schedule of events, CLICK HERE.
Reserve your complete film fest VIP admission, CLICK HERE.
If you're a vendor, tables are 50% off for a limited time, reserve yours, CLICK HERE.
A ghostly good time to be had! The spirits are waiting...for you. And, meet John Russo there, the co-writer for the original NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.
Looking for a place to stay during the festival? The Canton Double Tree is five blocks away. CLICK HERE to secure a room.
New! Great Softcover Books Are Subjects We Love...
Check out these books now, order the ones you want in your collection:
ONE STEP BEYOND GUIDE - Softcover Book
By John Kenneth Muir. One Step Beyond made its television debut in 1959, nine months before Rod Serling's classic The Twilight Zone, and paved the way for a generation of television programs devoted to paranormal topics such as the occult, ESP, and ghost stories. One Step Beyond was also where some of Hollywood's most famous leading men, including Warren Beatty, William Shatner, and Charles Bronson, got their starts in television. This complete reference work to the 96 half-hour episodes that ran for three seasons on ABC also offers a detailed history, extensive commentary and summaries of the critical reception. 302 pages!
SANTO (GUIDE TO ALL HIS FILMS) - Softcover Book
By Felix Hahlbrock Ponce. A guide for each and every one of the films that have Santo as their protagonist. It comments on the plot of each part of the saga, as well as details about the actors, directors and film crew involved. 183 pages.
Stock up your library with these books from our Creepy Bookstore on-line at Creepy Classics.
New! A "Like New" Used Blu-Ray, VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED
A classic science fiction-horror from 1960 that stars George Sanders:
VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1960) - Used Blu-Ray
Like new! Stars George Sanders, Barbara Shelley and Martin Stephens. In the small English village of Midwich everybody passes out for hours during a day. A cosmic force from space seems to have something to do with it. Nine months later many of the women in that town have children. All the kids are blonde-haired and appear to be able to read minds. And, oh yeah, their eyes glow and they have some type of unified, evil intent upon mankind. A very different and effective tale of alien invasion. Includes commentary.
Get this and see the other titles available at discount prices in our Used Blu-Ray Department at Creepy Classics.
New! THE LOST FILMS FANZINE #1
A high quality interesting magazine digest in full color with amazing photos and very interesting articles:
LOST FILMS FANZINE #1 - Digest Magazine
A high quality, full color fanzine! Features rare films like:LEGEND OF DINISAURS AND MONSTER BIRDS, The KING KONG TV commercial remake, THE LAST DAYS OF POMPII, SHE in color, Rare SON OF KONG color photo, BRIDE OF DR. PHIBES, and more.
Get this obscure fanzine now in our Miscellaneous Magazine Section at Creepy Classics.
Best Seller! Growing Up With Monsters, MUSIC & Comic Books in the Big Hardback Book - FLASHBACK
Still a bestseller at Creepy Classics! A 250 page book, packed with the images that take up back to childhood and growing up with monster movies, music, comic books and just loving this life. Get yours now:
FLASHBACK: MONSTERS, MUSIC & COMIC BOOKS - Large Illustrated Hardback Book
By Ron Adams, editor of MONSTER BASH magazine This is the first edition, special hardback! Growing up with pop culture in the 20th century. One kid's journey of imagination and pop culture that touched the lives of thousands. Relatable, touching, and memory jogging tales of life, family, and insight into the journey of kids. Monster movies, comic books, music, and the adventures of childhood.
Packed with historical images of toys, models, candy, movies, records, and everything we all grew up with in the 1960s through the 1980s.
250 pages that are a time machine for all of us that never let go, and never really grew up. Welcome home.
Get your very own copy of this hardback now in our Creepy Bookstore...at Creepy Classics.
Outside the USA?, order yours on Amazon (just search for FLASHBACK by Ron Adams).
Rondo Remembers: Summer Days Are Coming Back (above: Kevin Slick, Tom Adams, Ron Adams, summer 1975)
Where have those summer's gone? Days where you actually got bored. Ah, to reclaim those days in some magical time machine that George Pal would build for us. These are the summers I remember....and long for again. Maybe someday, sometime, we can slip back to live again in those days.
Glimpses of summers gone by:
Kicking down the sidewalk, some of them still big slate squares. Uneven from tree roots and rains. Don't step on the cracks...you'll break your mother's back and give your father a heart attack. In my hands the latest issue of TALES TO ASTONISH, the comic book that featured The Incredible Hulk and the Sub-Mariner. I couldn't wait to spend hours studying each panel of that comic...thanks to the genius of Stan Lee and Marie Severin.
Plopping down in the cushioned chair at my maternal grandparents' living room. Opening up that issue of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND. There was my name in the You Axed For It feature! There was a letter from some other kid who also liked Lon Chaney, Jr. There was Lon Chaney Sr. and his painful Phantom of the Opera make-up. I looked up at the big oval braided rug in my grandparents' living room at the fireplace on the other side of the room. Life couldn't be better.
It was a quiet Saturday morning and I was out back of my grandparents' Adams house on Jackson Street. There was a little stone stairwell out back that lead into my grandpa's workshop in the basement. There I sat on the side of that stairwell to read a CREEPY magazine. A quiet morning, the tree leaves not even moving. The sun hadn't cooked the air yet. Just me and a few ants crawling by. A beautiful morning.
Running through the golden high grassy fields to a clubhouse built from scrap wood by neighborhood friends and me. Inside some shade from the heat and shared comic books. Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandoes, Rawhide Kid, Fantastic Four, Captain America, Blackhawk, Magnus - Robot Fighter. Grasshoppers spit bubbles of tobacco on the tall weeds around our fort. It was summer, we were kids...rent, mortgages...we knew them not.
Out at our new house, it was the junior high years. I would ride my bike a couple miles to hang out at Kevin Slick's farm. Sharing our latest "finds" of FAMOUS MONSTERS magazines and 45 records from The Hollies, The Raspberries, Paul & Linda McCartney. Record albums by John Denver, Paul Simon, The Beatles and The Monkees. Autograph cards we had both gotten from the editor of FAMOUS MONSTERS himself - Forrest J Ackerman! Playing guitars in his farm's silo, Kevin going on to be a professional musician in the years that followed.
At my house, it was the pool table in the basement, my dad's 1950s rock and roll albums, and the ever present thread...comic books and monster magazines. Those were the days of long, never ending summer days. If only they hadn't ended. If only time hadn't shifted into a higher gear. Somewhere in my head, I'm still there and hope to be back there again, somehow.
Ron Adams
Ligonier, PA
May 2025
Don't Miss Out! Get Your Discounted (for a limited time) VIP Admission Memberships For MONSTER BASH June 2025 Available In Advance, Now...
Get you discounted 3-Day VIP Membership admission now for THIS summer's blast! Discounted now for a limited time, only days left for the discount.
The Universal Monsters Tribute with original Monster Kids, plus, DARK SHADOWS casts it's shadow on this fun-filled event. Get your admission now:
MONSTER BASH JUNE 20-22, 2025 - 3-Day VIP Membership Admission
All three days! June 20-22, 2025 at the Pittsburgh Marriott North, (Cranberry Township-Mars, PA). The classic monster movie conference and festival! Three days of monster fan fun. Movie and TV stars appearing, wall-to-wall monster merchandise, special events, special screenings. The multi-Rondo award winning best convention. Discounted for a limited time. Admission is non-refundable, non-transferable.
Secure your on-site hotel room with the Pittsburgh Marriott North, or the sister hotel, just a 400 foot walk across the parking lot at The Courtyard Pittsburgh North...CLICK HERE now!
Hop on board the Bash. See the details HERE. From your horror home, MONSTER BASH and CREEPY CLASSICS.
We will have a packed, packed ballroom of vendors for our June 2025 show!
SEE THE PREVIEW TRAILER, CLICK HERE!
New! The Creepy Cool MONSTER BASH Baseball Cap
Show your MONSTER BASH team spirit:
MONSTER BASH BASEBALL CAP (Embroidered) - Hat
Super nice soft baseball cap with the MONSTER BASH logo on the front (click picture to see bigger). Adjustable in the back to fit all. The hat is "Monster Bash Orange" with black logo embroidered. Show your support of the classic monster movie conference proudly!
Be the first Monster Kid on the block to have your BASH hat! Find it in our Shirts & Accessories Department here at Creepy Classics - The Home of MONSTER BASH!
It's Back! CANDID MONSTERS #25 is Re-Stocked
Back from deep in the bowels of the Earth, The Mole Man special edition of CANDID MONSTERS...the book-magazine:
CANDID MONSTERS #25 - Magazine Book
The magazine that is more like a book! Packed with interviews and behind-the-scenes articles and photos. Editor/publisher Ted Bohus is a film director and gets you the inside track on our favorite movies. In this issue: THE MOLE PEOPLE, THE DEADLY MANTIS, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS, interviews with John Agar, William Alland, Cynthia Patrick, and more!
See this latest edition and all of the back editions in our CANDID MONSTERS Department at Creepy Classics.
Re-Shocked! Restocked Blu-Rays...some hard-to-find and out-of-print
The below Blu-Rays are re-stocked, some with very limited quantities:
ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS (1957) - Blu-Ray
Stars Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson, Ed Nelson, Mel Welles.The Sci-Fi Roger Corman classic! Giant alien crab monsters inhabit caves on the Pacific coast. Terror and telepathy. A drive-in monster memory! Extras: New restored scan, commentary by Tom Weaver and the Brunas brothers, A Salute to Roger Corman, interview with Roger Corman, plus trailer!
5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T (1952) - Blu-Ray
A young boy is forced to take piano lessons. He becomes bored at the piano and drifts into a dream world of a maniacal super villain (Hans Conried) in a surreal world of weird people and strange happenings. Based on a story by Dr. Suess. Wild, weird and wonderful!
EEGAH! (1959/Special Limited Edition) - Blu-Ray
A caveman has survived evolution and aging for thousands of years on the California desert all alone. Ah, right. Plus swinging tunes from Arch Hall, Jr. Put the pizza in the oven and get some friends together -- go ahead, you can take it. Interview with Arch Hall, Jr. and more extras! Only 1,500 pressed.
DRACULA (1973/Dan Curtis) - Blu-Ray
Jack Palance stars in a intense study on the Prince of Darkness. This version directed by Dan (THE NIGHT STALKER) Curtis. Includes extras: Jack Palance and Dan Curtis interviews, outtakes, TV cuts, trailer, alternate audio tracks and more.
Stars Caroline Munro, Marjoe Gortner, Christopher Plummer, David Hasselhoff, and Judd Hamilton. Roger Corman was back in 1978 to ride on the coat tails of STAR WARS with STAR CRASH. Unplug your brain and enjoy this wild space opera. Two women smugglers find themselves as a rescue party for the emperor of the galaxy's lost son. Laser beams, wild costumes, and special effects.
FAHRENHEIT 451 (1966) - Blu-Ray
Stars Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack and Anton Diffring. Ray Bradbury's story of a future where reading and imagination are outlawed. Have a book in your possession and you are in serious danger...you could even loose your life. 451 degrees fahrenheit is the temperature that paper starts to burn. That's just what the future government is doing...burning books. A horrifying tale for everyone with imagination. Extras! Included: documentary of the making of the film, a discussion with author Ray Bradbury, commentary by Julie Christie, photo gallery, trailer, and more extras!
HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS (1983) - Blu-Ray
Stars Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, John Carradine and Desi Arnez, Jr. A writer is wagered to spend a night in a spooky deserted house and create a novel in 24 hours. Only problem is the old mansion is not deserted...it's occupied by weird characters and their may be murder afoot.
Grab these titles while you still can in our Blu-Ray Department at Creepy Classics!
Re-Stocked! Great DVD Titles
These are back in stock now:
GIANT FROM THE UNKNOWN (1958/Restored) - DVD
Outrageously fun horror thriller. A scientist is assisted by a local in finding a legendary Spanish giant who had died hundreds of years ago. They can't locate his remains...trouble is a bolt of lightning revived the giant and he's a killing machine! Stars Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, Bob Steele (town sheriff) and Buddy Baer as the giant. Make-up by Jack P. Pierce. Restored in a new 4K transfer from the original camera negative.
FIEND WITHOUT A FACE (1958) - DVD
Starring Marshall Thompson. A scientist's projected thought take physical form as brains with spinal cords that leap and latch onto people's necks, sucking their life away! First, they're invisible, but as they become more powerful, you see the nasty things. When you shoot them, Smucker's jelly oozes out with sound effects that give you the heebie-jeebies! It's on the Criterion label with loads of extras including: widescreen digital transfer, audio commentary by producer Richard Gordon, illustrated essay on British sc-fi/horror movie making, a collection of trailers from FIEND WITHOUT A FACE and four other horrors, rare stills with commentary, and vintage ads and lobby card files!
MONSTERS AND MADMEN (Criterion 4 Movies) - DVD Box Set
The disc contains four DVDs with two Boris Karloff chillers: THE HAUNTED STRANGLER (1958) and CORRIDORS OF BLOOD (1958). Also, classic sci-fi THE ATOMIC SUBMARINE (1959) and FIRST MAN INTO SPACE (1959). Thrillers produced by the brothers Alex and Richard Gordon. Criterion!
Get the above titles in our DVD Department at Creepy Classics today!
SIGN-UP NOW! MONSTER BASH CONFERENCE Autumn 2025...It's October 10-12
MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW, DON'T MISS OUT ON THE AUTUMN GATHERING OF CLASSIC MONSTER FANS FROM ACROSS THE NATION!
The MONSTER BASH for this Autumn 2025 is now in place. Vendors are coming in, guest stars are being announced...we're building another big BASH for classic monster movie fans.
Guest stars that will be appearing are Gary Clarke (the teenage werewolf from HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER), Kathryn Leigh Scott (DARK SHADOWS), Barbara Wilson (TERROR IN THE MIDNIGHT SUN, THE FLESH EATERS, BLOOD OF DRACULA, THE MAN WHO TURNED TO STONE, and more!), Jo Morrow (the original 13 GHOSTS, Ray Harryhausen's THE 3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER, and more)...plus, our BASH FAMILY regulars like legendary TV horror host SON OF GHOUL, Mark Statler, Zach Zito, and more.
Stay tuned for more updates!
And, for a limited time...deep discounts on both 3-Day VIP membership admission (CLICK HERE), and vendor tables (CLICK HERE, they will go fast).
On-sight hotel rooms are selling now, jump on board! The host hotel is the Pittsburgh Marriott North and it's sister hotel (right next door), The Courtyard Pittsburgh North. Get a discounted room reserved, CLICK HERE.
Let's BASH when the autumn moon is full and bright.
All the growing details are HERE!
New! VAMPIRESS CARMILLA #27 is In Shock Stock Now...
In all its gory-glory, the new issue of VAMPIRESS CARMILLA is ready to ship to you on the backs of a horde of vampire bats:
VAMPIRESS CARMILLA #27 - Magazine
Terrifying tales of enchantment and horror! Illustrated supernatural stories! Cover by the great Frank Frazetta. Stories include: The Midnight Horror Show, Pay Dirt, World's Away, and more. Awesome art and wild horror stories. Just like the magazines you grew up with in the 1960s-1980s.
Order your today for immediate shipping from our VAMPIRESS CARMILLA Department in our On-Line Magazine Section of Creepy Classics.
New and Shocking! It's MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE #56
Shocking and electrifying:
MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE #56 - Magazine
The magazine of creepy classic movies for fans of all ages! The pages of this issue are filled with fearsome photos! An in-depth short circuit with MAN MADE MONSTER, the Lon Chaney Jr. shockbuster. Plus, a stroll down the Rue Morgue: A look at the Bela Lugosi film MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE and its side streets. The fangs all here with the history of fanged vampires of filmland. Monster fan letters, great actors that have gone but not forgotten, "Reel Reviews" of the latest physical media that features classic monsters on Blu-Ray and DVD. An all glossy, retro rockin' monster magazine!
Writers include Frank Dello Stritto, Bob Pellegrino, Thom Shubilla, Ron Adams, Leonard Hayhurst! Cover art by Kerry Gammill.
Want to see it at your local comic store or magazine rack? Tell the manager to get it wholesale by emailing creepyclassics@creepyclassics.com.
Don't miss out! Get the latest issue now, it's here and in stock at Creepy Classics in our MONSTER BASH Magazine Department.
Here are some peeks inside:
Get the latest, the greatest MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE #56, CLICK HERE.
MONSTER BASH Magazine is for Monster Kids of All Ages
Make Sure You're Caught Up On Your MONSTER BASH Magazine Collection!
Everyone's talking about MONSTER BASH! The ultimate classic monster movie magazine! Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, Creature From the Black Lagoon, King Kong, The Phantom of the Opera, Mr. Hyde...they're all here, at home in MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE.
Collect them all (or, subscribe here too)....CLICK HERE to see all the issues, new glossy mags shipped bagged and boarded for protection to you!
All at Creepy Classics, right now!
CREEPY CLASSICS On the Road - Upcoming Conventions
Here a listing of shows that Creepy Classics will be setting up at, we hope to see you down that dusty trail:
MONSTER BASH CONFERENCE, Marriott Pittsburgh, North, Cranberry Township (Mars), PA. June 20-21, 2025.
More details: CLICK HERE.
MONSTERAMA, Marriott Atlanta North East, GA. August 8-10, 2025.
More details: CLICK HERE.
MONSTER BASH FILM FESTIVAL, The Canton Palace Theatre, Canton, Ohio.
August 15-16, 2025.
More details: CLICK HERE.
THE MID-ATLANTIC NOSTALGIA CONVENTION, Sheraton Baltimore North, MD. September 18-20, 2025.
More details: CLICK HERE.
MONSTER BASH CONFERENCE, Marriott Pittsburgh, North, Cranberry Township (Mars), PA. October 10-12, 2025.
More details! CLICK HERE.