Tells how Bob Burns was part of science fiction history for more than 50 years. Befriending movie serial stars and stuntmen while still a child. Burns was on the set during the production of many classic chapter plays, and collected some of the now historic props.

Monster Kid Memories: Behind-The-Scenes, First-Hand Encounters With The Men Who Made The Classic Movie Monsters!

Biographies & Memoirs

Bob Burns

Tom Weaver

Arts & Literature

Dinoship Inc

Fans of Golden Age television will remember Paul Picerni as one of the stars of the greatest of all crimebusting series, THE UNTOUCHABLES with Robert Stack. Movie fans might instantly associate him with the horror hit, HOUSE OF WAX, in which he played the romantic lead - and in 3-D! These credits are just the tip of the iceberg in Picerni's stage-screen-TV career, which took him from small East Coast theater groups to Hollywood studios where he acted alongside stars on the level of John Wayne, Errol Flynn, Audie Murphy, Burt Lancaster, Vincent Price, Charles Bronson and his best friend Telly Savalas. In this book, master storyteller Picerni vividly describes working with these legends (and scores of others) and recalls in detail all the phases of his astounding 60 years in the acting profession--all of his many "Steps to Stardom." "Best Book of the Year!" Classic Images, 2007

Steps to Stardom: My Story

Paul Picerni

Humor & Entertainment

BearManor Media

Monster Kid Memories chronicles Bob Burns' role in science fiction and horror film history over the course of more than 65 years. Inside, read all about Bob and his friendships with legendary SF producer-director George Pal (The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine); Glenn Strange, the last of Universal's classic Frankenstein Monsters; William Castle, king of the 'gimmick' horror movies; makeup legend Jack Pierce; the men who made the great Republic serials; Hollywood's greatest "gorilla guy" Charlie Gemora, and many more!

Bob Burns' Monster Kid Memories

Z is for Zacherley, the legendary horror host of SHOCK THEATER fame, and in THE Z FILES the story of his uncanny career is uniquely told almost entirely via archival material. Feast your eyes, glut your soul on -- VINTAGE NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE ARTICLES! HANDWRITTEN NOTES AND TYPEWRITTEN SCRIPTS FROM HIS TV HEYDAY! "CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE CRYPT"! SCORES OF SCARY PHOTOS! They're all from Zach's personal collection, unseen by human (and inhuman) eyes for more than 50 years. It's a coolish, ghoulish Transylvanian treasure trove you must Z to believe!

The Z Files: Treasures From Zacherley's Archives

Richard Scrivani

On a South American rubber plantation stands the home of Klaas Van Gelder—a house whose claim to fame is murder. Barney the foreman, beguiled by Van Gelder’s beautiful young wife Dina, pushed his employer into the afterlife, took Dina as his bride and made himself master of Van Gelder Manor. But a witch-like servant gives him a dose of jungle justice: She places a curse on him so that he transforms by night into the deadliest of jungle demons, the succarath. Curt Siodmak, creator of The Wolf Man and Donovan’s Brain, devised this outlandish monster melodrama, basically an exotic remake of The Wolf Man, co-starring the Wolf Man himself, Lon Chaney. The Fabulous Fifties’ first horror hit, it rates deluxe Scripts from the Crypt treatment: a “Making Of” article, a tribute to Siodmak, detailed release information, an essay on the music score, an interview with producer Herman Cohen, a Lon Chaney Timeline, Production Code correspondence, script, pressbook and more.

Bride of the Gorilla

Movies

Shovel in hand, the redoubtable Gary D. Rhodes returns to the Graveyard of Forgotten Facts, unearthing a treasure trove of terrific illustrations and a casket-full of new information and insights on Bela Lugosi, Ed Wood and Bride of the Monster (1956). Also exhumed are Bride’s shooting script and a vault full of decaying extras. Accompanying him in this 60th anniversary “Bela-bration” of the film’s release is partner-in-crime Tom Weaver, as well as contributors Sam Sherman, Robert J. Kiss and Michael Lee. “Brings back a lot of good memories... That's what I live for. This is history, and I'm living it all over again.” – Conrad Brooks, Ed Wood’s friend and actor in Bride of the Monster “Ed Wood’s Bride of the Monster isn’t the director’s most famous film, or the most beloved, either, but it is the best work the obsessive and resourceful Wood ever did. Loopy and retro even in its own day, Bride gets fabulous treatment in this engrossing volume, with Gary D. Rhodes’s carefully researched account of the picture’s development, shoot, and exhibition. I enjoyed exploring details of the film’s tangled chronology, Bela Lugosi’s casting and performance, and differences between script and finished film. Plus, images and extras I never imagined I’d see. I love Ed, I love Bela and I love Bride of the Monster.” —David J. Hogan, author of Dark Romance: Sexuality in the Horror Film and Film Noir FAQ. “When it comes to throwing the spotlight on American cinema’s dark corners that have been forgotten or ignored by critics, few people possess the breadth of knowledge, archival research expertise and ability to construct fascinating histories as Gary D. Rhodes. In this volume, and continuing his long-standing work on Bela Lugosi, Rhodes unearths and contextualizes with his usual, meticulous scholarship a wealth of material related to the final film in which Lugosi starred. A real treat not just for Lugosi fans, but also for those with an interest in the way American filmmaking was practiced in the periphery of Hollywood.” – Yannis Tzioumakis, Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and author of Hollywood’s Indies: Classics Divisions, Specialty Labels, and the American Film Market

Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster

Edward D. Wood Jr.

Gary D. Rhodes

Actor, director, producer... Robert Clarke worked in movies in Hollywood from 1944 until 1965. Appearing in all genres—Horror, Sci-Fi, Westerns, Swashbucklers, Dramas—Clarke vividly remembers such Hollywood legends as John Wayne, Bela Lugosi, George “Gabby” Hayes, Greer Garson, Boris Karloff, Alan Ladd, Clark Gable and directors like Edgar G. Ulmer and Ida Lupino. Clarke cheerfully reminisces about cult classics Hideous Sun Demon and The Man from Planet X, as well as his other genre favorites. Fans will enjoy Clarke’s refreshing candor and realistic look at his varied film career.

To "B" or Not to "B: A Film Actor's Odyssey

Arts & Photography

Robert, Clarke

Performing Arts

Midnight Marquee Pr Inc

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