Creepy Classics & Monster Bash News
Friday December 26 - Saturday January 3, 2026
NOTE: We will be on our annual holiday shut down from December 24, 2025 to January 3, 2026. ORDERS ARE STILL BEING TAKEN...but shipping won't resume until January 3. Have a Merry Christmas and the happiest New Year!
MONSTER BASH PHAN PHOTO: Our good buddy, Quasimodo, is ringing in the New Year here at Creepy Classics and Monster Bash!
New! From the 1980 Series of Trading Cards...The Monster
It's the ever-awesome Glenn Strange Frankenstein Monster from the Topps trading card series "You'll Die Laughing"...
YOU'LL DIE LAUGHING #49 (1980/Strange Frankenstein) - Trading Card
The 1980 YOU'LL DIE LAUGHING series of trading cards featuring Glenn Strange as the Frankenstein Monster on this card #49 in the series. Funny saying on the front, and joke on the back. In excellent, like new condition.
Get these and see others in the series in our Trading Card Department at Creepy Classics.
New! Vintage LIFE Magazine
STAR WARS fans take note! It's a dive into the life and work of George Lucas in this 1983 magazine:
In "like new" condition. Original LIFE magazine from June of 1983. Big spread of STAR WARS and the private life of genius George Lucas. Ad for PSYCHO II, Olympics Preview, great vintage ads, and more.
Blast this into your collectibles collection from our LIFE Magazine Department at Creepy Classics.
Re-Shocked and In-Stock! Great Blu-Ray Titles Are Here
We've re-stocked on favorite titles on the Blu-Ray format. Get yours:
DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (1973) - Blu-Ray
Stars Kim Darby and Jim Hutton. It's those crazy gremlins in the furnace! A young couple buys an old house and the wife discovers evil little creatures in the basement that chase her endlessly around the house....whispering nasty things to her. Her husband thinks she's crazy....but she knows the truth.
WILLARD (1971) - Blu-Ray & DVD Combo
The story of a boy and his rat. A disturbed young man, Willard, finds that he has a mental connection with the rats that live in his dilapidated old house. Controlling the rats, he proceeds to exact revenge on those in his life who have put him down. The rats kill Willard's enemies. Extras! Includes both a Blu-Ray and DVD disc.
RETURN OF THE APE MAN (1944) - Blu-Ray
Bela Lugosi and John Carradine are great in this Monogram quickie. Carradine is Lugosi's assistant and not keen on the weird experiments and methods his employer is using. Bela sees him as an obstacle and removes his brain for use in a frozen prehistoric Neanderthal man found in the Arctic. Loads of fun. Plus, you get to see Bela wielding a torch!
Select one of these or see hundreds more to choose from in our Blu-Ray Department in the horror halls of Creepy Classics.
New! VAMPIRESS CARMILLA #31
Yes, indeed...the new issue is in stock now:
VAMPIRESS CARMILLA #31 - Magazine
The black and white comic magazine that is filled with terrifying tales of enchantment and horror! Inside this creepy issue: Jewels of the Jungle King, The Lusts of the Barbary Pirates, The Sorcerer's Daughter, Ice Queen, and more stories of illustrated horror! Cover by Don Maitz. Contributors include Don Glut, Ralph Reese, Nicola Cuti, and many more writers and artists!
Here you go! Get this new issue and see other back issues you may have missed out on in our VAMPIRESS CARMILLA Section of Creepy Classics.
MONSTER BASH Retro Summer 2026, You Can Sign-Up Now (Price Increases very soon!)
It's next summer's MONSTER BASH CONFERENCE JUNE 2026! Join the fun!
Sign-Up now for the classic monster fest:
MONSTER BASH JUNE 12-14, 2026 - 3-Day VIP Membership Admission
All three days! June 12-14, 2026 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. Discounted for a limited time. Admission is non-refundable, non-transferable. You will be mailed a hard copy confirmation.
Updated details are here now:
The growing guest list includes Gary Conway (I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN), Jack Hill (Director of the last four Boris Karloff movies, and SPIDER BABY), Butch Patrick (THE MUNSTERS), Daniel Roebuck (THE MUNSTERS movie), Beverly Washburn (SPIDER BABY), Bill Diamond (Basil Gogos Museum/Muppet Museum), John Russo (NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD), and more! Plus, Marian McKnight (Miss America 1957), film historians and writers Frank Dello Stritto, Tom Weaver, Greg Mank, Lucy Chase Williams, Stan Gordon (UAP-UFO researcher), and the magic and monster movie making of the one-and-only David "The Rock" Nelson.
Wall-to-wall collectible vendor tables: vintage monster magazines, monster toys, comic books, Blu-Rays, rare DVDs, original movie poster room, t-shirts, monster gear...your head will spin seeing all the creepy cool ghoulish goodies.
Plus, all the fun monster bash events: the free prize toss at midnight on Saturday, Friday night Mexican Monster Night, Thursday Night Mystery Movies for the pre-Bash fun with Geoffrey Curtis (film collector), Zach Zito's live theater, a weekend film fest, Tom Weaver's Forgotten Horror rare films, Leonard Hayhurst with game shows and prizes...it's an almost non-stop three days of classic monster celebration and fun.
Discounted hotel rooms, get your reservations now before they sell out, CLICK HERE.
Check it all out, CLICK HERE!
Get your advance, discounted VIP full 3-Day Membership Admission: CLICK HERE.
MONSTER BASH October 2025 Flashback!
The monsters all came out to play at this past October 2025's MONSTER BASH CONFERENCE! This life-like full-size monster was in attendance as part of The Mazurczak Monsters Collection at Bash! See more of them at this next June's MONSTER BASH!
New! MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Box Sets
Here come the crazy, entertaining MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER Box Sets, grab the ones you want while they last:
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER Vol. 10.2 - Used DVD Box Set
A DVD box set of the craziest movies ever produced. Hosted by the crew of MST 3000! Movies in this set include: THE GIANT GILA MONSTER, SWAMP DIAMONDS, TEEN-AGE STRANGLER, and THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION! Four DVD set!
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Vol. 16 - Used DVD Box Set
Like new! A DVD box set of the craziest movies ever produced. Hosted by the crew of MST 3000! Movies in this set include: THE CORPSE VANISHES, WARRIORS OF HE LOST WORLD, SANTA CLAUS, and NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST! Four DVD set!
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Vol. 8 - Used DVD Box Set
A DVD box set of the craziest movies ever produced. Hosted by the crew of MST 3000! Movies in this set include: HOBGOBLINS, THE PHANTOM PLANET, MONSTER A GO-GO, and THE DEAD TALK BACK! Four DVD set!
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER Vol. 6 - Used DVD Box Set
A DVD box set of the craziest movies ever produced. Hosted by the crew of MST 3000! Movies in this set include: ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES, GUNSLINGER, MR. B's LOST SHORTS, and TEENAGERS FROM OUTER SPACE! Four DVD set!
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Vol. 2 - Used DVD Set
A DVD box set of the craziest movies ever produced. Hosted by the crew of MST 3000! Movies in this set include: ANGELS REVENGE, CAVE DWELLERS, POD PEOPLE, and a collection of bizarre shorts! Four DVD set!
Get these in our Used DVD Department, packed with great titles at Creepy Classics.
Coming October 23-24, 2026! A MONSTER BASH British Invasion at the Grand Palace Theatre
Thrill and chill to these on the big screen:
It's Hammer and Amicus time with great British horror films on the giant screen at a real 1920's movie palace.
This next autumn's MONSTER BASH FILM FESTIVAL at the majestic Palace Theatre in Canton, Ohio....is October 23-24, 2026! We'll be the week BEFORE Halloween in 2026 with the creepy coolest British classic horror films. The change from August to October for the Monster Bash is due to renovations that will be happening at The Palace in August-September 2026.
ADVANCE MEMBERSHIP ADMISSION available now:
Full Festival Membership Admission...it's the BRITISH Horror Movie INVASION! Two days, Eight feature films. Plus, vendors with collectible monster movie merchandise. It's all October 23-24, 2026 at the grand Palace Theatre in Canton, Ohio. A restored 1920s movie palace! Get your full festival admission membership now. Full membership also includes a free prize toss at the end of the night on Saturday! Single feature admissions will be available at the door as well. Films and events subject to change. Admission is NON-REFUNDABLE, non-transferable.
ADMISSION WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR for all 8 movie two-day passes or individual movie admission as well. Address: The Palace Theatre, 605 Market Ave N, Canton, OH 44702-1016.
Call for information at: (330) 454-8172.
Reserve your Double Tree hotel room (closest hotel, just 5 blocks away) call (330) 471-8000 (ask for the MONSTER BASH special rate discount)....or, do it on-line easily, just CLICK HERE!
Other hotel and motel options in Canton, CLICK HERE.
Vendors in the lobby and on the second floor mezzanine level too!
All the details, CLICK HERE.
Rondo Remembers - Christmases Gone By
This time of year, leading up to Christmas, I have such fond memories of the little Monster World I lived in....as the hustle and bustle happened all around me.
I was in the back seat of my grandfather's big car...packed with the whole family. I don't even think it had seat belts...it was probably 1969. A night time drive in sleet and freezing rain. We were heading to this thing called a mall in Sharon, Pennsylvania. It was maybe a 40 minute drive, but a real event for us. My hometown didn't have a mall. They were a "new thing."
The family was talking plans and places to shop in the mall. Bobby Helms was singing "Jingle Bell Rock" on the AM radio. While, in the back seat, I held my monster magazines up to the window, waiting for lights from outside, so I could see the magazine. Straining to see the pages. Reading about SON OF FRANKENSTEIN and seeing those great photos of Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone and Bela Lugosi. It was a MONSTER WORLD magazine.
At the mall I was set loose in a department store. Of course, I headed right for the toy department...keeping a distance from clothing racks at all times.
Over in the games, my eyes found board games that featured monsters and green ghosts, too! Model kits....ah, what an aisle...lots of airplanes, jets and cars...but, I found the monster ones. Long boxes with monsters -- wow! That's when I first saw the monsters in hot rods. Models like Frankenstein's Flivver, The Wolf Man's Wagon, Dracula's Dragster and The Mummy's Chariot.
There, in this magical world of the shopping season, I looked through a bin of plastic figures. They were the Marx monsters: Frankenstein, The Phantom, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, The Creature. Some were orange, some were black, some were green.
In another bin was plastic wallets...with monsters on them. Smooth vinyl, and a potent aroma of new plastic wafting up at me. There it was, one with the Glenn Strange Frankenstein monster on it. I wanted one and pleaded with my parents and grandparents. I didn't get that wallet on Christmas, but I did get other cool stuff under the tree, really cool monster stuff.
Under the tree I found a dinosaur playset, complete with trees, caves, cavemen and, of course, dinosaurs! A View-Master with the dinosaurs from THE ANIMAL WORLD movie. What Christmastime monster magic.
The snow is falling, my nose is fogging up the picture window, I'm thinking of building a snow fort and I'm back there in a moment with my family...the tree behind me in the living room. Shiny tinsel draped like a silver cobweb on the real pine tree. The Sears catalog...close at hand, dog-eared to the toy section. Right now, let's enjoy all the magic of the season around us, and remember these people who supported, or encouraged our love for movie monsters.
Ron Adams
Ligonier, PA
New! Hollywood Auction Book
It's glossy, it's packed, it's full of science fiction, horror, and fantasy film items:
HOLLYWOOD AUCTIONS 19 (PROFILES IN HISTORY) - Full Color Auction Book
A full color on glossy heavy stock paper book of vintage movie oriented auction items. Eye-popping items like a five foot, seven inch CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON prop, RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE Bela Lugosi life cast, Gumby animation figure, PLANET OF THE APES facial appliances, many posters and lobby cards like one from THE MUMMY'S CURSE, from the cover - the jeweled dragon armature from THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM...on and on. STAR TREK items...original scripts from movies and TV. A wonderful perfect bound book to peruse (and drool!).
Get this book in our Creepy Bookstore now at Creepy Classics! It won't last long.
New! Vintage 1984 LIFE Magazine
How can this be 41years ago? The 1980s seems like yesterday to me. Here's a four decade old LIFE that features some cool stuff from our past:
LIFE MAGAZINE (June 1984) - Magazine
The June 1984 issue of LIFE MAGAZINE. Articles on the second Indiana Jones film Harrison Ford & Kate Capshaw), The Life of singer Teddy Pendergrass, d-Day's historic beaches 40 years on, and Donald Duck too. Complete, no cut-outs or pen marks.
Yes, indeed, we have a section devoted to LIFE Magazines here at Creepy Classics.
MONSTER BASH October 2025 Flashback
This fellow loves the MONSTER BASH CONVENTION so much he just stays. In fact, he's been there so long he's mummified! One of the great Mazurczak Monsters that appear at Bash. Photo by Kevin Slick. Get locked in for the next Bash now, details HERE.
Re-Stocked! Blu-Rays of Magical Fantasy and Horror
These Blu-Rays have been re-stocked and are here, ready to ship to you:
WONDERFUL WORLD OF BROTHERS GRIMM (1962 Special Ed.) - Blu-Ray
Stars Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Barbara Eden, Russ Tamblyn, Yvette Mimieux and an all-star cast. A magical epic based on the stories of the Brothers Grimm. A highlight is the dragon segment. Award winning effects by the great George Pal. Puppetmation on a grand scale. Two disc set. Two versions, packed w/extras!
GODZILLA 2000 (2000) - Blu-Ray
A gigantic UFO is found in the ocean....millions of years old, Godzilla returns and the giant UFO begins stalking Godzilla. The UFO is itself a living being and its up to Godzilla to save himself and the world. Includes both the USA English version and the original Japanese version. Widescreen.
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) - Blu-Ray
Stars Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman and Teri Garr. One of the best classic horror satires of all time. Beautiful black and white photography mimics the classic Universals in sets and feel. Wilder plays Dr. "Franhhk-en-steen," not Frankenstein, mind you (he's embarrassed by his family name). Feldman steals the show as the hunchbacked "Eye-gore" (his hump switches from side to side). Just hysterical. A Mel Brooks production. Bonus features on this special edition include trailers, out-takes/bloopers, Mel Brooks commentary, deleted scenes, interviews and TV commercials.
WILLARD (1971) - Blu-Ray & DVD Combo
The story of a boy and his rat. A disturbed young man, Willard, finds that he has a mental connection with the rats that live in his dilapidated old house. Controlling the rats, he proceeds to exact revenge on those in his life who have put him down. The rats kill Willard's enemies. Extras!Includes both a Blu-Ray and DVD disc.
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945) - Blu-Ray
Stars Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury and Peter Lawford. The wonderfully acted 1945 classic. Hatfield wishes to always stay young and a demon deal makes it happen. A painting that he has done of himself grows old, while others wonder at how youthful he looks over the passing years. The town begins to talk as his peers become senior citizens and he's still youthful. His soul and human compassion is somehow lost in the deal. Thoughtful cinema magic. Extras: Short Feature, Cartoon, Trailer, Commentary!
Get these Blu-Rays now...they are in stock in our Blu-Ray Department at Creepy Classics.
New! Mummy Pin For You
Here it is! Just what you've always wanted...a Mummy pin to wear proudly:
He's staring at you and he doesn't look happy! It's a creepy cool Mummy metal pin. Great to wear to horror conventions, or to just freak people out at your work place. Nice to add to you back-pack or hoodie. Be stylish in a way that reflects your love of classic monsters! 2 inch sturdy metal pin.
Get your very own Mummy Pin from our cool Pin Department at Creepy Classics.
Just In! Used Mexican DVDs
From a Mexican movie fans collection, here are used, but in good condition, DVDs:
THE BAT WOMAN (1968/In Spanish, no subtitles) - Used DVD
In Spanish, no subtitles. Stars Maura Monti. A female wrestler called the Bat Girl, is also, by night, a masked crime-fighter with some cool electronic devices. The wrestling costume is very similar to Batman. When she's the crime-fighter, it's a bikini, a cape and mask! Pretty crazy. A demented doctor, and his evil assistant Igor, or Ygor are working on a bizarre experiment. They are developing gill-man monsters from fish and hormones from wrestlers. The film also features that surf-guitar sound that he Batman TV shows did. By the way, not that it matters, but the gill-monster is red (not green....but looks similar to the Universal creature).
KILLERS OF WRESTLING (1961/In Spanish, no subtitles) - Used DVD
In Spanish, no subtitles. A gun-slinging sheriff is on the hunt after a brutal murder in his community. His search brings him to the city, where a ruthless luchador crime lord rules the local wrestling scene with an iron fist. Of course this crime lord is somehow connected to the murder, and now our sheriff will have to deal with rigged fights, hired goons and relentless threats. Cowboys vs. Luchadors!
Find these resting in our Mexican Monsters Department at Creepy Classics.
New! THE VAMPIRE BOOK Hardback
A super well-produced, quality book on everything vampires:
THE VAMPIRE BOOK (DK Deluxe Book) - Hardback Book
Quality hardback with heavy stock, full color pages. Everything vampires! Deluxe hardcover book. Trace the history of vampire lore--in literature, movies, and on television--from the woods of Transylvania to the modern-day America. Chock full of info and insight, each gorgeous page will draw in readers with innovative styling, never-before-seen imagery. Perhaps this tome is best read while wearing a garlic necklace . . .
Available in our Creepy On-Line Bookstore at Creepy Classics.
MONSTER BASH October 2025 Flashback
Pictured above, two of the smiling faces that greet you at MONSTER BASHes! It's Mary Bishop and Janet Dwyer. Top Bash staffers at the October 2025 MONSTER BASH! Photo by Kevin Slick. Get ready for the next MONSTER BASH.
You've Been Screaming For It! Get Your October 2026 MONSTER BASH Admission Memberships Now...
Don't wait, get your plans for 2026 lined up!
Besides a packed wall-to-wall vendor displays, talks, monster game shows, live theater, film fest, and entertainment...here are the guests so far: Glenn Strange's grandson Michael Glenn Nix, Lynne Lugosi-Sparks (Bela Lugosi's granddaughter), Victoria Price (Vincent Price's daughter), Renee Browning (The Creature Kid, Ricou Browning's daughter), and more to come.
Plus, TV Horror Host Legend "Son of Ghoul," Bill Diamond's Basil Gogos & Muppet Museum, Live Theatre with Zach Zito, Leonard Hayhurst's monster game shows, Mexican Monster night, Saturday Night Free Cake in the Lobby, the Midnight Free Prize Toss...and so much more. So much Bash...almost three non-stop days.
Get your admission membership locked in now, the discount price won't last long:
MONSTER BASH EXPO OCTOBER 16-18, 2026 - 3-Day VIP Membership Admission
Admission membership for all three days! October 16-18, 2026 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. Discounted for a limited time. Admission is non-refundable, non-transferable. You will be mailed a hard copy confirmation.
Here's the link for discounted on-site hotel rooms at the Pittsburgh Marriott North, get yours before they sell out, CLICK HERE!
Check out the growing details by CLICKING HERE. The MONSTER BASH CONVENTION is produced by Creepy Classics.
Vendor table space will now go on-sale following our June show. Keep checking back!
New and Re-Shocked! Great and Rare DVD Titles Are Back
Get the physical media you want to always be available right there on your shelf. These are available and ready to ship to your crypt door:
Stars Dana Andrews and Anna Palk. Andrews is a warped, renegade Nazi Scientist. In a hidden lad he used pieces of corpses to attack to war criminal heads. It all sounds like a very bad idea. The most vivid image from this film is the creepy disembodied head of a woman who gives the evil eye while attached to a maze of wires. Really out there.
HAMMER HORROR SERIES (Eight Movies) - DVD Set
Includes: THE BRIDES OF DRACULA, THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN, KISS OF THE VAMPIRE, NIGHT CREATURES, NIGHTMARE, PARANOIAC and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1962).
Stars Christopher Lee. A castle owner's ancestor seems to have returned from the dead to lurk about passage ways and commit hideous murders. The owner's wife begins seeing the black-hooded and cloaked figure as the corpses pile up. This phantom is thought to be a human monster of the past. This phantom was known as "The Punisher" when he was alive hundreds of years ago, and had a reputation for torturing and killing all around the European countryside. Christopher Lee portrays a curator of a museum in the castle that preserves the original torture chamber, complete with Iron Maiden. Great photography and Old World atmosphere make this a real chiller!
Mad science threatens a small remote village, and it may threaten the world next! A magazine writer on a fishing vacation discovers a village where all fish have died in a once populated lake region. He uncovers a plot of foreign scientists that may cost him his life. Dazzling photography, intense paranoia and thrills. Directed by William Cameron Menzies (INVADERS FROM MARS).
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945) - DVD
Stars Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury and Peter Lawford. The wonderfully acted 1945 classic. Hatfield wishes to always stay young and a demon deal makes it happen. A painting that he has done of himself grows old, while others wonder at how youthful he looks over the passing years. The town begins to talk as his peers become senior citizens and he's still youthful. His soul and human compassion is somehow lost in the deal. Thoughtful cinema magic.
Wow! This is one to watch late at night along by just the flickering light of the TV. Still frightening. The scene of a slow zoom to an ornate door (revealing a face) while a spectral chorus rises on the soundtrack is a killer!
Get these in our DVD Department, or just use the search function on the home page at Creepy Classics.
Re-Stocked! Warehouse Left-Overs of This Classic Model Kit
He's crusin' out of the tomb to your model building table:
THE MUMMY'S CHARIOT (Glow/Polar Lights) - Model Kit
The all-plastic assembly kit! Build your own racing mummy in his chariot. This is the Frightening Lightning Edition from Polar Lights. The same design released bu Aurora back in the 1960s. Glue and paint not included. Requires assembly.
Excavate this kit from our Models, Toys & Action Figures Department at Creepy Classics.
October 2025 MONSTER BASH Flashback
Pictured above, an army of monsters that attended the MONSTER BASH CONVENTION in October 2025. Courtesy of caretakers Mark and Diane Mazurczak. Photo by Kevin Slick.
Get ready for the next MONSTER BASH in June 2026! Details, just CLICK HERE.
New! Hot Off the Slab...MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE #58
Look at that cover by the great artist Basil Gogos! It's looking at YOU! Subscriber copies are in the mail, now you too can get your very own issue:
MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE #58 - Magazine
Wild-eyed wonder with classic monster movies! In this all-glossy movie monster magazine we celebrate 100 years of Lon Chaney's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. It's a deep dive into "The Curious Case of the Opera House Ghost!" Rare photos of Chaney's horrific make-up. Plus, secrets revealed about GODZILLA VS. THE THING (what is "The Thing?!"). Plus a tour of the wax museum...film and TV horrors in wax. Your letters, Blu-Ray and DVD reviews, and....and Basil Gogos is back in a documentary and his art graces the cover of this heart-pounding issue!
Get this and pick up any back issues you might have missed in our MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE Department at Creepy Classics, your classic horror movie home.
Rondo Remembers - Christmas Mornings Past
Rewind back through the Decembers of the past. I hit stop sometime when I was about seven years old.
These were the days that I would wake up early on that special morning...yelling to my parents, "Can I come out to the living room yet? Can I?" I'd hear my parents yell, no, no, not yet. We'll all go down together." The layers and layers of blankets protecting me from the morning chill. A favorite brown blanket on top that had picture of cowboys. Finally, I'd get the "Alllllll right!"
I'd run out to the silver tinsel covered tree, with the silver-winged angel on top. Those wings made of a thick cardboard, slightly discolored from an amber Christmas lightbulb that had heated them over years of use. Gifts everywhere. My sister would be plunked down beside me and paper would fly, until I was told to slow down. A five foot green stuffed snake, plastic dinosaurs, a model kit, a Tonka toy truck, and little rubber monsters. It was Monster Kid joy under the colored lights blinking on the tree and sparkling off the tinsel.
This was so special, and now, as I look back...so was that glorious church on Christmas service, the night before. The music, the pipe organ and the giant stone arches, the hanging giant lights of metal and warm yellow glow...plus, the real meaning of Christmas. Even, if at the time, I was day dreaming of a Hunchback at Notre Dame Cathedral.
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas season with family and friends, make some new memories for you, your kids and grand kids.
Back in those days we all would dress up for the holiday meal at my grandparents...suits, dresses...just to eat holiday dinner. My dad and grandparents still wore hats when they went out.
Man...what memories. Dear to me.
Ron Adams
Ligonier, PA
December 2025
New! Books For the Serious Film Fans
We're adding to our selection of cool books available for purchase. Check these new additions out:
CHARACTER PEOPLE - Large Softcover Book
1976, oversize trade paperback edition, later printing, Citadel Press, NJ. 209 pages. Wonderful black and white photos throughout. Here is a title which will make you smile throughout. Brief essays on some of the best character actors we've ever seen and applauded. Included: Wallace Ford, Rondo Hatton, Mantan Moreland, William Shallert, Irving Pichel, Kent Smith, Jack Elam, Leo Gorcey, Lee Van Cleef....and so many more! Great bios and great photos of all our favorites.
CINEMATIC MISADVENTURES OF ED WOOD - Hardback Book
This is the HARDBACK! Edward D. Wood, Jr. has been called the "Worst Filmmaker in History." In this hilarious and reverential study, authors Andrew J. Rausch and Charles E. Pratt, Jr. investigate this claim while providing in-depth looks at the 29 existing films written and/or directed by Wood. In doing so, they manage to fully capture and translate the sensation of watching a Wood film in print. With nearly 300 pages, photographs, and 10 original interviews with Wood associates, The Cinematic Misadventures of Ed Wood is a must-read for anyone interested in the films of Edward D. Wood, Jr. Sure to delight the most casual fan to the most knowledgeable of aficionados, this one-of-a-kind book stands as a testament to the misunderstood life and genius of Ed Wood.
ZOMBIES: COMPLETE GUIDE - Hardback Book
This book takes a look at all aspects of this gruesome entity and delves into the less well known mythological and historical side of this fascinating subject. This hardcover volume is illustrated throughout in ghoulish full color. A deep dive into everything...zombies. Movies like WHITE ZOMBIE and I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE right into all he modern films...and the lore and legends! Dust jacket, like new! 190 pages of zombies.
Select the books you want this week, and see hundreds more to choose from in our Creepy Bookstore on-line at Creepy Classics.
Creepy Classics May Be Coming To Your Neighborhood
Here's a listing of planned shows, expos, festivals, conventions that we will be at:
The Super Drive-In Monster-Rama
April 2026
The Riverside Drive-In, Vandergrift, PA
Details, CLICK HERE.
Monster Bash Convention
June 12-14, 2026
Marriott Pittsburgh North, Cranberry Township/Mars, PA
Details, CLICK HERE.
Monsterama Convention
August 7-9, 2026
Atlanta Marriott Northeast/Emory Area, Atlanta, GA
Details, CLICK HERE.
The Super Drive-In Monster-Rama
September 2026
The Riverside Drive-In, Vandergrift, PA
Details, CLICK HERE.
Monster Bash Convention Autumn
October 16-18, 2026
Pittsburgh Marriott North, Cranberry Township/Mars, PA
Details, CLICK HERE.
Monster Bash Film Festival
October 23-24, 2026
The grand Palace Theatre, Canton, OH
Details, CLICK HERE.
MONSTER BASH Magazine Is For All Classic Monster Movie Fans!
Did you grow up watching classic monster movies on TV? Love those horror and science fiction classics? Well, THIS is the magazine for you!
It's packed with rare photos and articles by the best film historians and writers in the field. From Frankenstein to King Kong to Creature From the Black Lagoon, and all the obscure films...we got you covered!
See all the issues and select the ones you would like from our MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE Department at home here at Creepy Classics.