Monster of the Day #3133
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Monster of the Day #3133

  Before there was Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, there was Ghost Table. I mean...that's great. What were the rest of the stories like that this was the one picked to be on the cover. I mean, Lovecraft, Seabury Quinn....
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Rock Baker taking commissions…

In case anyone didn't see his note, FoJ is taking commissions for custom artwork.  Rock is an expert illustrator/cartoonish, specializing, I would say, in good girl art. Rock, please correct me if I'm wrong. Rock has done some tremendous Jabootu-ish art referencing bad movies, so that's another area to think about. Speaking of good…
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Monster of the Day #3132
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Monster of the Day #3132

You should never murder a Cyberman, and you should never jilt a Cyberman, and you should NEVER jilt the ghost of the Cyberman you murdered.  
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Monster of the Day #3131
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Monster of the Day #3131

  Apparently the sales figures for the risque cover I included yesterday were strong. This is the next issue and already girls are getting their shifts ripped off. Weird Tales would still go through runs of 'adventure' covers rather than 'fantastic' covers, though. Damsels in distress were pretty much a constant at this point,…
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Monster of the Day #3130
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Monster of the Day #3130

  I said yesterday that more early covers featured spicy girl art than 'weird' content (odd for a magazine called Weird Tales, but then they invented that market and had to find their way). That's not quite true. For instance, the eighth issued featured a great giant spider illustration that we've featured before. Still,…
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Monster of the Day #3129
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Monster of the Day #3129

I noticed some issues of Weird Tales for Kindle on sales over the weekend for .99. Plus I had some digital credits for a bunch of DVDs/Blu Rays I bought last week. These are reformatted for digital reading, so they don't have ads or anything. PDF scans of the actual issues are available on…
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Monster of the Day #3128
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Monster of the Day #3128

I'm sure everyone's seen it, but The Last Man on Earth stars Vincent Price, is one of several thematic precursors to Night of the Living Dead, and although it's not perfect by many means, remains the best screen adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend. Anyway, it's available with several other fun movies…
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Monster of the Day #3127
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Monster of the Day #3127

"And...jazz hands!"   First, the Cult Cinema Classics channel has added the obscure Condemned to Live (1935), from "Invincible Pictures" (oh, brother), a very early vampire cheapies. Good or bad, for us completists it's nice to notch off another flick. They also have added the 1977 TV movie Good Against Evil, a black magic…
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Monster of the Day #3126
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Monster of the Day #3126

As Beckoning Chasm noted, Cult Cinema Classics has posted Larry Buchanan's Zontar Thing From Venus. I guess Larry didn't think he could use the It's Alive/Creature of Destruction/Curse of the Swamp Monster suit again. And yes, it looks awful--never do we appreciate the superlatively talented Paul Blaisdell more (or Roger Corman or Peter Graves…
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Monster of the Day #3125
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Monster of the Day #3125

One of the less televised Hammer horrors back in the day was Kiss of the Vampire. I think one of the major reasons is the lack of familiar Hammer actors. Not just Lee and Cushing, but no Andre Morell, no Andrew Keir. Hell, no Michael Ripper. I thought he was in everything. It's got…
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