Monster of the Day #1856

Updated on December 12, 2018 By Ken Begg 16 Comments

Neat! And the poster cost only half what the actual movie did.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Never seen the movie, but by all accounts this poster is far, far superior to it.

  • BGBear_rnh babyit’scoldoutside

    Gloria Talbot was a busy little B girl wasn’t she.

  • Oh, look at the lizard cuddling with Cyclops!

  • Flangepart

    No depth perception at all.

  • For some reason I am tickled by the little (hijo) by Chaney’s name.

  • Oh, and it has nothing to do with the monster, but just wanted to say that as of DEC 1, I am officially retired from the Army National Guard! No more deployments, no more snow duty, and I can now officially be that obnoxious person who signs letters to the editor “GalaxyJane MAJ, VaARNG (ret)”. Not that my local fishwrap is worth writing letters to anymore, but it’s the thought that counts.

  • BGBear_rnh babyit’scoldoutside

    If The Señor Chaney was in the film, that would really be something.

  • BGBear_rnh babyit’scoldoutside

    saaaalute!

  • BGBear_rnh babyit’scoldoutside

    I always thought that this exchange from “War of the Colossal Beast” was one of the unintentionally funniest lines I ever heard:

    Dr. Carmichael: The foot that made that print is about ten times the size of a normal man’s. That would make him about sixty feet tall.

    Joyce Manning: Glenn was sixty feet tall!

    But, I guess I was wrong. Apparently giants human-like beasts were running all over the southwest US and parts of Mexico.

  • Gamera977

    Hopefully I can get this link to post. Delete the spaces of course.

    w w w .dropbox .c o m /s/s865kqnnyu8opvb/WT_1938_01.pdf?dl=0

    It’s a link to Weird Tales January 1938 which should open in Adobe Acrobat or most programs of that ilk. Check out ‘Roads’ by Seabury Quinn the best friggin’ barbarian Christmas tale I’ve ever read!!!

  • zombiewhacker

    Yay, GalaxyJane! Congrats!

  • Eric Hinkle

    Congratulations!

  • Eric Hinkle

    The story is also available for sale in both Kindle and physical book forms on Amazon if you want a copy.

    I read it myself and while I got exasperated with the cheap shots at Catholicism and his nonsense about the fall of Jerusalem in 1099, that won’t bug everyone. And some of the things he got wrong everyone thought was the truth back then. But that aside, it is a great and odd little heroic fantasy story about Santa’s origins as a sword-swinging barbarian.

  • Gamera977

    Well, it was just so friggin’ weird I glossed over the issues you pointed out. Kinda like pointing out science errors in a Godzilla movie! I was just going along with the flow and thinking ‘what on Earth is Quinn going to pull next!??!!’ I have to love the story for it’s just plain old ‘what the hell’ attitude!

  • Gamera977

    Yeah, big congrats!!!

  • Eric Hinkle

    When you read enough of Quinn’s work his biases become obvious; he was not afraid to step into the bully pulpit on occasion. Though I like his writing enough to usually just give an eyeroll and move on.

    At the same time I have to note that he was actually pretty liberal for his day despite disliking a whole raft of people. It can be enlightening to see just what kind of stereotyping and biases were considered acceptable by ‘the enlightened people’ back in the 30’s and 40’s.

    But for all his problems he was much better than some of his contemporaries. I recently read a Hank Cave story from the 40’s in which Confucianism was depicted as out and out devil worship, complete with human sacrifice!