Horror Host Graveyard

The Ghoul Power Polka was a song written in 1983 by Michael Misiak for The Ghoul Show . Watch a video of the song, from 1984, here: Go ovadey at: theghoul.com

On October 31, 1996, Detroit's WKBD channel 50 aired a Halloween special called MasTERRORpiece Theatre , which had Count Scary and The Ghoul battling it out to see who was the Best Detroit Movie Host . Watch the full show here: Stay sick by visiting: theghoul.com

A segment of The Ghoul Show , called Golden Garbage , featured The Ghoul showing classic clips from past shows. Watch some of those segments below: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: To see more trash, visit: theghoul.com

In 2001, The Ghoul made another return to the Detroit, Michigan airwaves on the station WXON with a new version of The Ghoul Show . Watch segments of the October 27 2001 premiere below: Part 1: Part 2: Turn blue at: theghoul.com

The Ghoul presented the movie Hangar 18 on an episode of The Ghoul Show broadcast on channel 55, WBNX, in Akron, Ohio in 1998. The Ghoul provides his usual hijinks and boom-booms. Watch the hosting segments below: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Scratch glass at: theghoul.com

Here is a clip of the The Ghoul from his show on TV20: Check out the Boom Booms at: http://www.theghoul.com/

Robert A. Scott is a Rondo Award nominated horror and monster artist who specialises in black and white portraits of classic horror icons. Among the excellent reproductions of classic monsters and madmen, he also includes some horror hosts. So far he has featured Sir Graves Ghastly, Zacherley, Vampira, and The Ghoul in the selection of prints of varying sizes that are available on his website. To purchase prints, visit his website at: http://www.scottra.com/ From now until July 14, 2009 he is having a buy one get one free sale.

Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows: From Shock Theatre to Svengoolie authors Ted Okuda And Mark Yurkiw were interviewed by Frank Avila. They talk about horror host shows from Chicago as well as children's shows from the past. Watch the full interview here:

The Ghoul Spew Sack was a promotional barf bag made for The Ghoul Show on channel 56 WBNX. Visit The Ghoul at: http://www.theghoul.com/

The June 17, 2006 episode of the radio show Spooky Southcoast features an interview with Ernie Boch Jr. when he was bringing his character of The Ghoul to the revised version of Creature Double Feature . Penny Dreadful of Shilling Shockers is also in this show. Click play to listen to the whole show: Right click here to download the show: Spooky Southcoast - The Ghoul

Boston's channel WLVI had a beloved horror movie show in the 1970s called Creature Double Feature . It was revived in 2006 in a pair of specials, this time with an on screen host called The Ghoul, who was joined by Mr. Stump. The new version premiered on June 24, 2006 showing Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster and The Giant Gila Monster . A second episode aired on October 28, 2006 and featured the movies Horror Express and Night of the Living Dead . Another episode aired October 27, 2007, though without The Ghoul. Merchandise, including DVDs of the shows, are available here: The Ghoul Store Watch the Creature Double Feature promo here: Below are a variety of clips from the show:

Forrest J. Ackerman was the creator of Famous Monster of Filmland magazine. In it he introduced millions to horror and sc-fi movies as well as horror hosts. Horror hosts like Zacherley and M.T. Graves were featured on the cover and inside many issues of the magazine. Forry passed away on December 4, 2008. Here is The Ghoul meeting Forry at the first Ghoulardifest in 1997: Here is Forry in a montage from The Son of Ghoul Show :

The Ghoul Show had it first airing on Cleveland's WCLQ Ch. 61 in 1982. Here are segments from that episode: Part 1: Part 2:

The article The Best and the Frightest was published in the October 28, 2000 issue of TV Guide. It gives a history of horror hosts and spotlights Zacherley, Svengoolie, Stella, The Ghoul, and Count Floyd. Click on the pictures below to enlarge them to read:

Cleveland, Ohio horror host The Ghoul revived the Ghoulardi character in 1971 and continues to this day, although on the internet. Here is a Halloween clip from his show:

The Ghoul Soundtrack Compilation is group of songs and sound clips that were played on The Ghoul Show . Some of the music is the same as Ghoulardi played on his show, like Papa Oom Mow Mow by The Rivingtons. Download it below, courtesy of the Universal Horror Sounds blog: The Ghoul Soundtrack Compilation

The book Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows: From Shock Theatre to Svengoolie by Ted Okuda And Mark Yurkiw is an examination of almost all the TV shows that regularly scheduled horror and science fiction movies in Chicago. There are chapters dedicated to the horror hosts of the area, such as Marvin, Svengoolie, Son of Svengoolie, and The Ghoul. Also featured are the shows without hosts, like Creature Features, Monster Rally, and Thrillerama. Most get their own section of the book where the dates the shows ran, reminisces of them, and interviews with people who were involved with them, both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. Spread throughout the book are many pictures and vintage ads from the shows, as well as movie posters of films that they ran. Other chapters in the book cover the authors' top 100 monster movies, reviews of 8mm versions of some of the movies, and a guide to the "Shock!" and "Son of Shock" film packages that were shown in the 1950's...