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 November 20 - Thursday November 21, 2024
TODAY'S MONSTER BASH PHAN FOTO: Slowly turning into a cactus-blob...what a terrible way to go! It's Richard Wordsworth from THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (1955).
New! Puzzled?...Why It's A Godzilla Puzzle
1000 pieces of radioactive joy...stompin' into Creepy Classics, it's this GODZILLA puzzle:
GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS - Puzzle
1,000 piece Toho Godzilla puzzle US based on that film’s 1956 U.S. market One Sheet Poster! The Toho Godzilla puzzle for “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” would be a great gift for any fan. We’re sure you can piece together the reasons why this puzzle should be at the top of your shopping list for any Kaiju collector! Puzzle measures 19″ x 27″. New and sealed!
Get yours to warm up the long winter hours ahead of us...makes a great gift for the Godzilla fans too. It's in our Models, Toys, and Action Figures Department at Creepy Classics.
'Tis the Season! THE MUNSTERS: SCARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS Is Here
Get into the spirit of things as we approach the Christmas Season! Herman Munster is:
THE MUNSTERS: SCARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS (1996) - DVD
Get ready for some Holiday spirits as the first family of fright celebrates the season in the quirky and hilarious 2-hour TV film The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas! Eddie Munster misses Transylvania and clearly doesn't think it's the most wonderful time of the year, so the rest of the Munsters—Herman, Lily, Grandpa, and Marilyn—rally to make him enjoy the holly, jolly magic that Santa brings. It's a Munsterpiece!
Stomp into Creepy Classics and find this in our Holiday Department.
Blast Off! Now Here For the VHS Collectors, SPACE PATROL
It's like new! This 1950s space age classic collection of TV shows:
SPACE PATROL: AMAZONS OF CYDONIA (1954) - Used VHS
Atomic age TV is back with episodes of the rompin' fun Space Patrol. This video features transferred 35mm kinescopes from the shows. There's original commercials as they aired on the ABC network in 1954. This tape has three great episodes: AMAZONS OF CYDONIA, THE MONSOON TRAP OF CYDONIA and THE MEN SLAVES OF CYDONIA.
Get this, and while you're at it, check out the hundreds of other great VHS tapes in our Used VHS Graveyard at Creepy Classics.
Announced! The Details For 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.
Looking for a place to stay during the festival? The Canton Double Tree is five blocks away. CLICK HERE to secure a room.
Oh, wow, thank you! And, Sorry For the Delay...
I never expected the incredible response to my book FLASHBACK: Monsters, Music, and Comic Books. I've been selling case after case of them. I'm almost 200 books behind right now and have more cases on the way.
So apologies, in advance, for a slight delay. Normally, I get stuff to customers in a few days...but because of all the back orders, please be patient. I've got more cases coming...and then I'll get orders out immediately.
Thank you for your orders of FLASHBACK!
-Ron
New! SHUDDER Magazine #19 and #20
Now in shock stock the latest two issues of the creepy cool SHUDDER magazine, You'll feel like a kid again pouring over these black and white horror comic magazines:
The world's #1 illustrated horror magazine. Color covers, great black and white comic strip art inside! Editor, Rich Sala, cover art by Frank Frazetta, writers include Don Glut and Artie Godwin...plus, man others. Creeped out stories include: The Master of the Cave Dwellers, The Dread Shoes, The Gunman's Shadow, and many more tales to chill.
The world's #1 illustrated horror magazine. Editor Rich Sala has done it again. Another terrpr-filled issue of eerie tales of horror. Color cover, great black and white comic stories of horror inside! This issue feature the stories: The Axeman Cometh, A Living Mummy, Gangland Ghouls, Children of the New Nile, and more gore! Cover painting by Ken Kelly.
Get these, or any of the back issues, we have them all in our SHUDDER Department at Creepy Classics.
Rondo Remembers: The Mod Monster Kid Generation
I lived through the cool times where things were "mod!" It started in the 1960s and continued through the mid 1970s.
Unconventional mod stuff was everywhere. Bright colors and monster toys where right there too. Even font or lettering styles became mod.
I think of the bright, garish colors of things like EERIE and CREEPY magazine. Flowery fonts used by publisher, layout guru James Warren, in FAMOUS MONSTERS magazines. In monster model kits, the classic Auroras had their mod brothers and sisters in the form of Monster Scenes models.
My sister and my female cousins embraced little "Troll Dolls." They popped up everywhere. Ones that were four inches tall, or so, and little mini ones that burst out of plastic bubbles from coin-operated gum machines. These guys had the tan skins and fluorescent colored, spiked wavy hair. For boys there were "Big Daddy Roth" monsters, including the mod and hip "Rat Fink" character. Hot rods with crazy, sharp-toothed monsters. Surfin' and motorcycled ridin' plastic monsters with tongues hanging out.
There were Colorforms and hip spooky and silly board games. From The Green Ghost to Mystery Date, these games were aimed at our age group. Matchbox cars, looping tracks were all the raging rage! Remember Creepy Crawlers, Fright Factory, and for the girls the Triple Thingmaker that made flowers and funny animals? All cooked out of Plasti-Goop in plastic bottles with that smelled like it had to be toxic. Ha!
Things were hip and mod, indeed. Our transistor, hand-held radios (precursors to iPods and music on your cell phones) blasted out The Beatles, The Monkees, The Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five, and The Zombies. The surf music was there too. All in low-fi, high-end treble. It was the mod sound.
Trading cards and trading stickers were everywhere. Contraband hidden in kids notebooks and taken to school. Beatles cards, Monkees cards, funny sayings on monster movie cards, crazy cartoonish monster cards, stickers that depicted gross parodies of foods and grocery items.
The comic books got hip and cool thanks to writers like Stan Lee and artists like Jim Steranko. There were satire comedy magazines for us kids too. MAD magazine, CRAZY magazine, and other spin-offs made us chuckle with delight. Pop Art, Op Art, Flower Power...it was everywhere. And, SCOOBY-DOO was on TV with American Top 40 DJ Casey Kasem as Shaggy's voice.
Parents might have thought it was businesses just exploiting us kids....and, maybe that's true, but we loved it. It stamped a couple generations with bright colors and things that were just plain cool, and mod!
-Ron Adams
Ligonier, PA
November 2024
New! Forgotten Late Night Frights on Blu-Ray
Restored late night TV ghost stories that aired in the 1970s on ABC-TV. Rediscovered and ready to scare again:
Over 5 hours of classic ghost programs from the haunted vaults of ABC-TV. Shot in the 1970s and airing late nights on ABC. These frightening teleplays were thought forgotten, excepy by those who witnessed the scares decades ago. Stories include: THE HAUNTING OF ROSALIND, THE SCREAMING SKULL, THE DEADLY VISITOR, THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN, and AND THE BONES CAME TOGETHER. Many stars were engaged in these tales of the supernatural including David McCallum.
Get this Blu-Ray set in our Recent Additions Department in the haunted wing of Creepy Classics.
New! Rare Model Kit..."The Go Cart: From Polar Lights
For a brief time, in the 1990s, Polar Lights issued this revised edition of "Godzilla's Go Cart", changed to just "The Go Cart". A special item, still sealed, for model collectors:
THE GO CART (Polar Lights) - Rare Model Kit
The 1960's Aurora design by Polar Lights. This version issued in the 1990s had to drop the name "Godzilla" and slightly alter the image (less back plates) due to copyright. Now this is the rarer version of the classic model design. 9.5 inches long. Glue and paint not included. Still sealed and new!
Land this model collectible from our Models, Toys, and Action Figures Department here at Creepy Classics.
Re-Stocked! Out-Of-Print, But We Have It Again...
The 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T on Blu-Ray
One of the strangest, surreal films of all-time! From the concept by Dr. Suess and a lavish film production with unique special effects and sets. We've got it (a limited supply) on Blu-Ray here at Creepy Classics:
THE 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!
Get it now, before it's gone in our Complete Blu-Ray Catalog on-line at Creepy Classics.
New at Creepy! A Collectible GHOULARDIFEST Program Guide From 2019
It's a must-have for TV Horror Host collectors. A program guide for the 2019 tribute convention for horror host legend Ghoulardi:
GHOULARDIFEST 2019 - Program Guide
A simple four page, glossy, color program guide for the 2019 GHOULARDIFEST convention near Cleveland, Ohio. A tribute show to the TV horror host legend Ghoulardi. Has program schedule and guest listing.
Get this collectible now, where else?...but, our Collectibles Department in the horror halls of Creepy Classics.
New! More Great Used VHS For the Growing Tape Collectors Out There
Indeed, VHS tapes are the new vinyl in the collectibles world. Go retro yourself and start collecting vintage VHS. Here are new additions just in and available while they last:
DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE (1968) - Used VHS
Christopher Lee is back as the evil Count Dracula! A Hammer horror! Like new!
THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (1963/Viking) - Used VHS
Stars Howard Keel, Nicole Muarey, Janette Scott and Kieon Moore. Meteors rain on planet earth creating a beautiful glow......but the BAD news is it blinds everyone who sees it. Then the space spores start growing as th planet becomes infested with walking, killing plants called Triffids. Filmed much more intelligently than you would think. Good stuff....but have the weedwacker handy.
GODZILLA 1985 (1984/Starmaker) - Used VHS
The American version of THE RETURN OF GODZILLA (1984). This version stars original GODZILLA - KING OF THE MONSTERS actor Raymond Burr. An atomic explosion once more releases the big guy, Godzilla. The radioactive, mutated dinosaur and it's stompin' time.
GAMMERA - THE INVINCIBLE (1966) - Used VHS
Stars Brian Donlevy and Albert Dekker. Nuclear testing revives a prehistoric creature related to a turtle. It's a big cousin to Godzilla and it breathes radioactive fire. I saw this in a kiddie matineee back in 1968, the Ju Ju Beas were flyin' -- what a great time.
THE THING (1951/Nostalgia Merchant) - Used VHS
Stars Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan and James Arness. A military crew and a doctor head to investigate a downed UFO buried in ice. They retrieve an alien in a block of ice. By accident the "Thing" thaws and begins to kill off the expedition members. That's the plot in a nutshell, but the direction, acting, writing and suspense are top flight. Probably one of the best science fiction horrors EVER put on film. Tobey and the cast are likable, real and scared. This Howard Hawks film soars with a sense of claustrophobia and class.
Get any of these new additions, or selects from hundreds of others, in our Used VHS Graveyard at Creepy Classics today!
Back in Shock Stock! Popular DVD Titles
These great DVD titles are back in stock for you to select:
MONSTERS! MARTIANS! MAD SCIENTISTS! (Documentary/Interviews) - 3 DVD Set
Featuring MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE editor Ron Adams. Interviews with: Coleen Grey, Julie Adams, Ib Melchior, James Karen, Robert Dix, Richard Anderson, William Schallert, Ann Robinson, Brett Halsey, David Hedison, Joyce Meadows, Jimmy Hunt, Kathleen Hughes, Phyllis Coates, Hugh O'Brien, Billy Gray, Pat Boone, Kenny Miller, Terry Moore, Laurie Mitchell, Peggy Webber, James Best, Bob Burns, Vincent Price, Roger Corman, Samuel Arkoff, Russell Johnson, John Agar, John Carradine, and...Boris Karloff! Plus, Jack Arnold, Ricou Browning, and Bert I. Gordon.
The three-part documentary that explores over a decade of atomic rays, explosions, giant-size creatures and the fear of nuclear destruction! The movies that Hollywood made, bringing in teenagers to theaters and drive-ins all around the United States. Here are crazy clips, a fun fest of atomic blasts with interviews from the actors, directors, SPFX technicians and a monster magazine editor who never grew up.
THE GHOST BREAKERS (1941) - DVD
A great comedy-horror with Bob Hope. Noble Johnson in really great make-up is the zombie of an island. There's a castle and a ghost too. Excellently filmed.
THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE MOVIE COLLECTION (1940s) - DVD Set
Five films starring the comedian Harold Peary as "Great Gildersleeve." Fun 1940s films include: GILDERSLEEVE'S GHOST (with an ape too!), GILDERSLEEVE ON BROADWAY, GILDERSLEEVE'S BAD DAY, SEVEN DAY'S LEAVE and THE GREAT GILDERSLEEVE.
Get these great DVDs now in our Complete DVD Catalog on-line here at Creepy Classics.
New and Re-Stocked Blu-Rays Are Here!
We lifted up the fallen tombstones and came up with these great Blu-Rays that are ready for your home movie room:
THE MAD MAGICIAN (1954/3-D and 2-D) - Blu-Ray
Riding on the coat tails of HOUSE OF WAX came this chiller also starring Vincent Price. A practitioner of the black arts does magic, but when his long awaited show is to begin, the producer cancels it. He goes more than a little nuts...doing his own shows that now include horrible murders. Conrad Brooks (of Ed Wood's troop) has an extra part in the mob scene. This restoration inclues both the 3-D and 2-D versions. Plus, it's packed with extras, including the Three Stooges short film SPOOKS! that is also presented in both 3-D and 2-D. 3-D featurettes and so much more.
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951) - Blu-Ray
Stars Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan and James Arness. A military crew and a doctor head to investigate a downed UFO buried in ice. They retrieve an alien in a block of ice. By accident the "Thing" thaws and begins to kill off the expedition members. That's the plot in a nutshell, but the direction, acting, writing and suspense are top flight. Probably one of the best science fiction horrors EVER put on film. Tobey and the cast are likable, real and scared. This Howard Hawks film soars with a sense of claustrophobia and class.
THE GORGON (1964/Hammer) - Blu-Ray
Wonderful mix of Hammer horror and mythology. Peter Cushing stars. Don't look at The Gorgon, whatever you do!!! Don't look!
Spin these Blu-Rays on your player, if you don't have them, you can get them in our Blu-Ray Department in the horror halls of Creepy Classics.
Get Set Now! VIP Admission Memberships For MONSTER BASH June 2025 Now Available
Get you discounted 3-Day VIP Membership admission now for next summer's blast! 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! Please note: The hotel has said that the June weekend is VERY busy with requests and their cancellation policy is in effect. If you reserve a room you will be charged for it.
Hop on board the Bash. See the details that are just beginning HERE. From your horror home, MONSTER BASH and CREEPY CLASSICS.
Vendor tables are sold out. We will have a packed, packed ballroom of vendors for our JUne 2025 show!
New! MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE #55 is Here
Peter Lorre, The Mummy, and all your ghoulish friends are here in this latest issue of MONSTER BASH:
MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE #55 - Magazine
The all-glossy classic monster movie magazine! In this issue: the high minister of sinister cinema...actor Peter Lorre. Find out all about the man and his creepy films. Plus, be a fly-on-the-wall with David Hedison in an interview, he talks THE FLY and VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. Was Alfred Hitchcock a monster movie fan?, well...maybe! Check out the possible Hitch Snitch. Fans talk and beautiful photo reproductions from classic films live inside these pages. The home of classic monsters! Writers: Frank Dello Stritto, Tom Weaver, Ted Bohus, Leonard Hayhurst, and Ron Adams. Cover by Micah Carey.
Snare your copy from our MONSTER BASH MAGAZINE Department here at Creepy Classics.
New! Hammer Horror T-Shirt
It's a howling cool shirt of the Hammer werewolf that will look great on you! Be creepy cool, get yours:
100% pre-shrunk cotton, super comfortable tee! It's Hammer film's werewolf snarling at everyone you pass! Black shirt. Men's sizes. Limited supply. Sizes SMALL - 3X while they last.
You'll find these slinking around our T-Shirt Department out in the woods behind Creepy Classics.
Discountd Rate for the Closest Hotel Now Available
For the MONSTER BASH Ghost Film Festival this next August, the closest hotel (5 blocks from the theater), is now available for booking.
You can book your room at the Double Tree Canton now, CLICK HERE.
Now SOLD OUT FOR THE JUNE 2025 SHOW! Vendor Tables For June 2025 MONSTER BASH
The vendor ballroom for MONSTER BASH June 2025 are sold out. Almost every vendor at our November show signed up for the June 2025 show. There were only a few tables left and they sold out in a couple of days on-line.
We'll see you with a packed dealer ballroom in June 2025!
New! THE MUMMY'S TOMB Model Kit
Get a grip on this new mummy model before he gets a grip on you:
THE MUMMY'S TOMB (X-Plus) - Deluxe Model Kit
From out of his tomb, Kharis, Te Mummy (Lon Chaney, Jr.). X-Plus and Chaney Entertainment bring you this deluxe model kit based on the film THE MUMMY'S TOMB (1942). Big box and beautiful box art and beautiful model sculpt. Assembly required, glue and paint not included.
This kit has shuffled into our Models, Toys & Action Figures Department at Creepy Classics. Get yours now!
MONSTER BASH Magazine is for Monster Kids of All Ages! The vacation photos are back...(Monster Basher Thom Shubilla pictured)
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 get them right from the publisher (us!), new glossy mags shipped bagged and boarded for protection to you!
All at Creepy Classics, right now!
New! FLASHBACK: MONSTERS, MUSIC & COMIC BOOKS Hardback Book By MONSTER BASH's Ron Adams
It's here! 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.
Here are some peeks inside:
Let's FLASHBACK together! Get your book now, CLICK HERE!
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:
DRIVE-IN SUPER MONSTER RAMA - April 25-26, 2025: Riverside Drive-In, Vandergrift, PA.
All the details: CLICK HERE.
MONSTER BASH CONFERENCE, Marriott Pittsburgh, North, Cranberry Township (Mars), PA. June 20-21, 2025.
More details: CLICK HERE.
THE MID-ATLANTIC NOSTALGIA CONVENTION, The APG Arena, 401 Thomas Run Road, Bel Air, MD. June 26-28, 2025.
More details: CLICK HERE.
MONSTER BASH FILM FESTIVAL The Canton Palace Theatre, Canton, Ohio.
August 15-16, 2025.
More details: CLICK HERE.
MONSTER BASH CONFERENCE, Marriott Pittsburgh, North, Cranberry Township (Mars), PA. October 10-12, 2025.
More details coming soon! CLICK HERE.