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~~ said to be "Jane Eyre

:0 the West Indies"
a gothi c tale of
a young girl who becomes G reat way to open an issue, huh?
mistress of a zombie-ridden
household. No zombies, ZOMBIES. Who cares about zombies? We
just a sleep-walker. do! Let it be known that THE MONSTER
At right is the-zombie- TIMES is a newspaper that CARES!
from-the-tin-pit,
canning the mine-owner Nobody likes zombies ... they're not really
,n PLAGUE OF THE monsters. They're not really even dead.
!ZOMBIES! They're not really alive. Nor particularly
bright. Nor are many of their films any
good.
Come to think of it, we wonder
ourselves, why we're doing a whole zombie
issue, after all. But it's too late, now.
Noted film researcher and expert, Ron
Borst commences a vasty gargantuan and
exhaustive and exhausting survey of what
we'd hope is an exhausted topic; The
Zombie in Films, on the 2nd page
following . . . so turn the page,
now ... we're too tired to ....
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The World's
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Newspaper
of Horror,
Sci-Fi
and

Lookit the zombie come out of the grave,

He ain't changed his socks, and does he need a shave!
A zombie's sad story will choke up your throat,

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Cause he ain't too handsome; his skin's such a bloat!
People don't like him, and girls shy away,
So he sings lotsa love songs of Maggots in May, PAGE ZOMBIES ON PARADE!:
And graveyard rats lolling by the light of the moon, A survey of the zombie film from Z to Omega,
So pity the poor zombie, but bury him soon! for those who don't think one zombie film is enough.

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ZOMBIES IN COMIX:
The above song was found slid under our office door a They walked! They talked! They did practically everything.
couple of weeks ago, by person or persons Hmmm ... were they really zombies?
unknown ••. and it's best that they remain
80 ••• unknown. Still, it got us to thinking of zombies
~l\lIit.\U.ai we don't do often). and so we hit on yon
brainstorm: this tempestuous all-zombie iSh. A.nd Just
look at what the cyclone dragged in; enough zombies to
last an afterlife-time. From the ASfRO-ZOMBIES to the
10 I AM THE LEGEND OF THE LAST OMEGA MAN ON EARTH:
You rein! me buot<'! Y"OlJ S<IW .~~
Then the second ~ ~ .:ead the n..empaper story!

ZUG-ZOMBIESof the BUCK ROGERS s«iaI, they're all THE ASTRO ZOMBIES:
here.
"QUO ZOMBIE?" 13 Was way ahead of its time .. .and still is.
Maybe someday, when we're all dead and buried . . .
Zombies: Why and Whither? Zombies are rather

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newcomers to the Traditional Monster club ••. that is, "AND THE DEAD SHALL WALK":
monsters who are more or less "natural" or "organic" as a A special Lovecraftian MT horror comic strip,
health-food-faddist cannibal might call 'em), rather than commissioned of Doom-dealing Demonic Dan Green .
the "new breed" of monsters produced by technology or
from outer-space. They seem to be the last of the SPECIAL ZOMBIE POSTER IN FOUL COLOR!:
old-school, superstition-produ~ monsters.
Zombies are pretty unique in . Moilsterdom; zombies
and witches seem the only monsters that are believed in
today, in some parts of the civilized world, such as the
16 Something to make your spirits rise cheerfully
(if not necessarily your lunch rise cheerfully).

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island of Haiti. THE MONSTER TIMES TELETYPE:
But here in America, Zombies are considered, good, You wonder where we gell all our info. So do we.
unclean fun, and so many good, unclean and funny Rumors that Bill Feret's related to Rona Barrett are quite untrue.
zombies have paraded across the silver screen, and into
our hearts, that we decided. to dub this our special
ROGER CORMAN VS EDGAR ALLEN POE:
ZOMBIES ON PARADE ish. We've got ZOMBIES ON
BROADWAY (Just in case you thought we forgot!), and
zombies from Poe (LIGEA was a woman who came back
from the dead).
20 Part III of a series. The only fight
. where a movie maker killed an already dead author.

Zombies from Pennsylvania came from their graves to

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MONSTER MARKET: This time we product test (what else?)
appear in NIGHT OF THE LMNG DEAD, zombies from -a ZOM BI E MASK! Even a zombie
some bar in Tijuana pretended to be from outer space in can get zombied to death reading TMT!
the John Carradine fiasoo , ASTRO-ZOMBIES.
Zombies once thrived in comic books, stories of the
BADTIME STORIES . .•A REVIEW:

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undead o nce lived in abundance on pungent pulp paper
comix, but since the Comics Code Authority came along, Baying Berni , baneful wolf of Wrightson's Weir,
th e y all w e nt to the WHITE ZOMBIES' has done it againl ... A horror book that's All -Wright , son!
GRAVEYARD .. . that is, obscurity. Now, with the
co mix revival, and a young, new , educated generation NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD:
discovering suppressed and censored comic books of the
J950's, our survey of ZOMBIES IN COMrx was made,
especially for this issue ... zeroing in most particularly on
26 Is a classic film; not to mention a go ry one ,
about zombie ghouls and guys . Hop on the grave-train!
that old EC-yarn, " Horror We? How's Bayou?" ... Did
you know there's a law on the books in New York State
that makes horror comix illegal? More on that , when we
do our special EC Horror Comix issue #9, which follows
our special all-HAMMER Films issue, #8, which follows
27 THE MONSTER MAIL:
Dead issues (of THE MONSTER TIMES) live again ,
called to life by the critical comments of our readers.

our special GODZILLA featured issue #7, which follow s

this one in two mere weeks. THIS ISSUE'S COVER is a gargantuan panel by Dan Green of his comic strip "AND THE DEAD SHALL
Now doesn't that entice you to subscribe, and not WALK'" We dug his grave comic strip so much, we had Dan blowup one panel with additions of Dan's
miss out on the great grue stuff comin' soon enuf? deathly detail. We'll be'futurely featuring more Green·grabbers.

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Excerpted from PHOTON magazine (e) 1971

WRITTEN BY RON v. gORST

early origins

The tenn "zombie" is derived from the

Same source as those other supernatural
terms : " v ampire " and
"werewolf" ... from man's imagination;
to be specific from a combination of
religious beliefs (and, possibly , fear) and
superstition. Unlike the other two, the
zombie can almost be tenned a local
creation, having its foundation in our
neighboring West Indies (rather than froin
remote comers of Europe and Asia). For
although the ancient practice of voodoo
can be traced back to Africa, the
.monsterish zombie doesn't seem to have '
developed until "black magic" spread to
the isle of Haiti, usually identified as the
birthplace of "zombieism." .
The term first cartle into noteriety
• -through William B. Seabrook's account of
. visit to Haiti, The Magic Island, first
published in 1929, entire chapter
entitled, " .. . Dead Men Working in the
Cane Fields," to the zombie, and his
definition termed the creature:

" . . . neither a ghost, nor yet a

person who had been raised like
Lazarus from the dead. The
'Zombie' they say, is a soulcss
human corpse, still dead, but taken The latest zombie on the Saa.I scene that _ k _ of is P...... Cushing as kindly Mr. Grimsdyke from the EC·comix·based film, TALES
from the grave and endowed by FROM THE CRYPT. The first zombie, (below, far-left) was controlled by Bela LugoSi, in the 1932 d_ic, WHITE ZOMBIE. That's Bela in
the tux and goatee. Not ~r usual zombie master, when Bela got beaned,· his zombies fall flat on their ••• faces, and other places.

sorcery with a mechanical discovered that a group of so-<:aDed

semblance of life-it is a dead body zombies toiling in a field were no more
which is made to walk and act and than dim-witted misfits; individuals
move as if it were !llive. People who pressed into slavery by unscrupulous
have the power to do this go to a villains. But in spite of this discovery,
fresh grave, dig up the body before local natives who had become Seabrook's
it has had time to rot, galvanize it friends continued to insist that the
into movement, and then make of zombie as a supernatural creature did
it a servant or slave, occassionally indeed exist; that relatives of dead people
for the commission of some crime, reported seeing their long-dead relations
more often simply as a drudge months after they had been entombed.
around the habitation or the farm,
setting it dull and heavy tasks, and WHITE ZOMBIE
beating it like a dumb beast if it
slackens. " "Unusual times demand unusual
pictures," blurbed the ads heralding the
Unlike the vampire or lycanthrope, a arrival of WHITE ZOMBIE during
zombie cannot be destroyed by the mid-summer of 1932. "Here's a burning,
well-known religious methods, sunlight or glamorous love-tale told on the
silver bullets. It toils from sunup to borderland of life and death . . . the story
sunset in the cane fields, and is fed a of a fiend who placed the woman he
tasteless food called "bouillie." The food desired under the strange spell of WHITE
must be devoid of salt, and the zombie ZOMBIE, rendering her soul-less, lifeless,
must never be permitted to taste meat, yet permitting her to walk and breathe
for to do either W6uld end in the and do his every bidding! See this live,
zombie's realization that he is indeed a weird, strangest of all love stories! "
"walking dead"; "he would voluntarily America received WHITE ZOMBIE
return to his grave to remain there with the same tremendous box-office
permanently. response as DRACULA and
During his travels about Haiti, FRANKENSTEIN got only scant months
Seabrook was determined to view this before.
phenomenon for himself, but eventually Allegedly inspired by Seabrook's The
Bela Lugosi and friends gallop through a mad scene in WHITE ZOMBIE.
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hands were claspe'd only lightly. But his on age-old gothicism and romanticism, it
grip tightened as more and more power may always be fondly reg<irded as one of
had to be asserted as in the case where he the finest":if not the fmest-gothic horror
commands MadeHne to kill her lover. film from the era of the 1930's.
Without this mental exchange between
zombie and master, the slaves failed to Zombies Invade Cambodia
function. When Legendre is momentarily In 1 936, the Halperin brothers
knocked unconscious, the zombies lost
attempted to re-create their initial success
, control of their movements and blindly
with REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES which
plummet over the cliff.
~
emerged as, quite literally, a carbon-copy
Black magician Legendre does ' not of WHITE ZOMBIES in terms of
Here's Q burning glamorous merely create his zombies by ressurecting
love-tale told on the border- characters; dialog and theme, but lacked
them from their graves; he is ' able to
the classical elements which made the
land of life and death ... the create a type of semi-zombie subservient earlier fIlm a cinematic triumph. '
story of a fiend who placed to his will through his own magical
The picture opens with some
the woman he desired under prowess. He manages this through the use
confusing sequences set on the
the strange spell of of a strange drug. When Madeline inhales
Franco-Austrian frontier during the last
the scent, her mind goes blank, but she is
months of World War I. A group of
hardly an actual zombie, since she has
zombie soldiers advance against a hail of
only appeared to die. Similarly,
bullets to put the enemy to rout. Later,
Beaumont does not die from the drugged
an oriental priest, chaplain of a French
wine . Rather, his mind slowly
colonial regiment, is condemned to life
disintegrates, leaving him a vegetable
imprisonment because he possesses the
whose last glimmer of humanity enables
power of turning ' men into senseless
him to destroy his master in the
automations, acting only in accordance
concluding reel.
with his will. Colonel Mazovia (Roy
rendering her soul-less, lifeless yet A highly interesting but puzzling
D'Arcy) hides himself in the priest's
permiHing her to walk and breathe question concems the relationship
prison cell and rescues a parchment
and do his every bidding I be~een Legendre and .his "pet" vulture,
containing the location of the secret
whIch Beaumont realizes is Legendre's
SEE THIS LIVE, WEIRD, STRANG- formula which the priest attempted to
familiar. Exactly what the bird represents
EST OF ALL LOVE STORIES I bum.
in relation to Legendre, or to the plot, is
with After the war is over, an expedition
unclear. At a showing of the film in New
BELA (llRACULA)lU6051
IIOTE: n. ptodic. 01 Zombii.", i. punishoWe by death in Haiti!
York, the author asked historian William
K. Everson if he found any meaning in
ocmposed of representatives from all the
Allied countries come to Cambodia to
destroy the secret of the zombies.
• this relationship. Everson replied that he
Vet. lombiit", ia being proctic:ed itt this country. Look oround you! Colonel Mazovia is a member of this
............... SIr..., th. . . Gte happening them you ..,., dreomecl . had once put the same question to his
acquaintance Lugosi personally, and the
,~-, 'ac'foi -'-:;luntIy '., replied, "It's sirilple!
expedition, as are Armand Louque (Dean.
Jagger), a student of dead languages;
Clifford Grayson (Robert Noland), an
Transm.igration of soUls!" What Lugosi
Englishman; General Duval (George
An ad from the actual WHITe ZOMBI_~JJressbook, which is exceedingly rare and fragile and meant 'is open to interpretation. Could
Cleveland) and his daughter, Claire
costly: .. but y~ur newspaper s!%iTiiS no expense in getting all the monSter QJri05 you the Legendre simply have dominated this bird
reader, deserve. . ' (Dorothy Stone). The shy and diffident
as he had his human victims? Or is the
Armand falls in love with Claire, who
bird a mallifestation of a demon or dark
accepts his proposal ofinarriage in order
Magic Island, the only real connection The screenplay faithfully depicted the spirit which serves the "white warlock"?
to spite Clifford, whom she really loves.
between WHITE ZOMBIE and the zombie according to the Haitian Lugosi triumphs in WHITE ZOMBIE. Later, when the three are working near
non-fictional work is in its faithful superstitions and voodoo practices. His Lugosi achieved his all-time greatest each other, Claire reveals her love for
presentation of zombieism. The most interesting development was in portrayal of evil. It is also interesting to Clifford and Armand frees her from their
pressbook from WHITE ZOMBIE does having Legendre (Bela Lugosi) transmit note that Lugosi only received a flat sum engagement. As a result of "accidents"
quote liberally (without giving specific mental commands to his slaves by of $800 for this role in a fIlm that made (caused by the wily Mazovia), and the
credit) from Seabrook's description of clasping his hands together and millions for its producers. refusal of the natives to work for the
the zombie, but only to stress establishing a linkage between his brain Lugosi shares one short dialog ex-
change with Baumont.(Robert Frazer) in whites, the expedition returns to the base
believability in the creature. and their undead minds. Usually, his
which he watches his former employer
mentally disintegrate into a nonentity. He
performs the final act of changing
Beaumont into a living zombie- carving
the voodoo doll- and as Beaumont
struggles to lift his hand to let it fall on
Legendre's in a last attempt to implore
the fiend to release Madeline from her
fate, Legendre merely 1ifts his own arm
from beneath and reminds Beaumont of
their first encounter when Beaumont
refused to shake hands with him. His tone
migllt almost imply that he feels pity for
his victim , but he has become so
accostomed to denying humans the rigl1 t
to live that it is do ub tful whether'
Be a um onfs actions ' have even the
slightest effect on his emotions.
WHITE ZOMBIE was made in 1932,
but over the years it has achieved ~
remoteness in time as romantic and
gothic as its theme. Its acting styles and
tec hn ical facilities are admittedly
primitive, but so, too, are they unique.
Although the film may well be criticized
f o r stnvll1g for over-mel odramatic
h orrors, it succeeds well in the attempt ;
certainly as 'well as a DRACULA or
FRANKENSTEIN. And because of its
many unique properties: the su perior
phot ogr aphic effects and macabre
"Sorry .pal ... but sometimes I get this urge to scratch an itch, and I can't help myself," settings; the limited but meaty dialog; the
confeses this WHITE ZOMBIE slave of Bela lugosi. lack of offensive comedy and the stress 1936 REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES
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liThe zombie ... is a soulless human corpse,
still dead, but taken from the grave and
~ndowed by sorcery with a mechanical semblance
of life. It is a dead body which is made to -walk
and act and move as if it were alive."

at Pnom Penh. However, when Annand accurate to state that often cited as chi. ,.
discovers a previously overlooked clue, he representatives of the zombie sub-genr
sneaks back to Angkor against ord~rs. are two grade 'C' (to 'Z' depending UP(Jll
In the temple at Angkor- the ' scholar one's .taste) cheapies produced by tlte
views an ancient ce'remony . Later he infamous Monogram Studios .
follows one of the native servants of the . Monogram's first entry into the tiel u
high priest out of the temple and through was KING OF THE ZOMBIES, produced
a swamp to a bronze doorway. After the during 1941 and released prior to the
servant leaves, Annand accidently strikes December attack on Pearl Harbor. The
a gong held by a strange idol and a panel fIlm was directed by Jean Yarbrough
in the wall translates the inscrip tion, he (also known as the Rondo Hatton
realizes that it is the secret. HOUSE OF HORRORS up to such recent
When he returns to the expedition he trash as HILLBILLYS IN A HAUNTED
is dismis sed by his superior for HOUSE), and tried to combine several
insubordination and, hence, goes mad. He successful elemen ts such as comic rel "
turns his servant into a zombie, and soon and even Nazi villains. Zombies the
thereafter gains control over all the are described by a pert young servant
members of the expedition, making them Samantha (Marguerite Whitten) as "Dead
obey his every command. By threatening folks ... that walks around!" Saman tha
Clifford, he forces Claire to consent t9- and "Old Tahama" , the cook (Madame
marry him, but fmally 'comes' to realize Sul-te-wan), have bu t to clap their hands
that he can never really force her to love to have the zombies march in for their
him . Despairing of ever ,obtaining. the one evening dinner. The story is an incoh ('~ive
thing he most desires , Armand farce.
relinquishes his power and liberates the As the night (and the picture) wear or ..
zombies from their semi-death, there are the usu al nocturnal appearance"
destmying both himself and the ancient of glassey-eyed zombies, etc, etc, etc
secret. At length in the lengthy pict;H~.
As can easily be di seemed . from the zombies turn again st their master, a j\ .. !~ (
synopsis, the picture is lacking in both spy.
sincerity and in authenticity. REVENGE O F THE ZOMB IL~
followed only two years later. Monograf11
Zombies meet Bob Hope! worked to degrade fa med Shakespeari:lII
actor John Carradine in a simi1,~r fash ie,n.
Although the debasement of Dracula The plot for this one made KING OF
and Frankenstein's Monster was not to THE ZOMBIE's screenplay seem a
take place until the release of ABBOTT masterpiece of construction, even thou gh
,A.,J'tP ,.,..,~ q .S,r .pJ",.L,P , , ~t~,_ E T lisOO.-the . same...dull-..formula.- T-here's
FRANKENSTEIN in 1948, the zombie some by-play between the hero and the
suffered a much quicker decline by zombies; in this case a fellow by the name
serving as a mon:;terish foil to the antics of Lazarus (James Baskett) who remarks
of comedian ~ob Hope in a to Jeff over the car he driv~ , "B_eautiful
lushly-mounted Paramount thriller of car. I drove a car like this for master. ·:
1<)40 intitled TIm GHOST BREAKERS.
"Yes?" replies Jeff. "When I was alive,"
Briefly, Hope plays Larry Lawrence, a
he adds.
radio commentator .whose frequent There is a Nazi agent who is named
remarks against gangsters tmally force him Von Altermann. His goal is to develop a
to leave town. He accidentally traps
new army, an army of zombies which will
himself in Mary Carter's (paulette
not be stopped by bullets and will be, in
Goddard) trunk, and by the time he
fact, invincible. Firing a bullet
manages to make his presence known, he
"Be sure to look for me on page 161" .tmonim. this zombie, one of the few really point-blank into his zombie . wife, Von
is on a ship bound for Cuba. Miss Carter good-Iookin' zombi. ever _n, Thet's why _'re running so many photos of him. Call it .
has iriherited a supposedly haunted castle, PLAGUE OF THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMsfESI Continued on .page .29

and Lawrence offers to. go along as her

protector. Anthony Quinn tuins up in a
dual role throughout these proceedings,
but the horror does not begin unin they
reach the island. There, Paramount's art
director Hans Dreier (assisted by Robert
Usher) created not only the spooky castle
settings, but an eerie native hut in which
art old woman (Virginia Brissac) lived
with her zombie son (well played by
Noble Johnso(n, specialist in horror roles).
Larry manages to foil the prowling
zombie, and reveals the whole thing as an
evil plot by Miss Carter's supposed friend,
Geoff Montgomery (a young Richard
Carlson). In the conclusion, Montgomery
meets a horrible fmish and the isl,and,is
found to be the source of a foi-tune in
mineral . deposits, but a supernatural
presence of the castle's femme spirit and
the zombie are left unexplained.
On the whole , THE GHOST
BREAKERS is a reworking of the " old
dark hquse" theme But when gaunt
and brutish Noble Johnson lumbers down
the dimly lit staircase in the latter half of
the fUm , a genuine shuddery moment
appears in an otherwise mediocre fUm.

total debasement:
the Monogram Zombies way Tijuana, Jack?" asks zombie in SANTO vs THE
Mexican monster epic about a my~erious mated wrestler.
w. pretty revolting to us. It is most unfortunate but perhaps
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"NOT DEAD ENOUGH" screeched the cover blurb on this 1953 pre-Code comic, MYSTIC __ . as any zombie-lover can plainly see. No zombies in the story .inside , tho.

With the beginning of horror comix in the most comic readers couldn't tell the difference material for "approved comics." Some appear
late forties, it was inevitable that stories between a ghoul, a zombie, and an ordinary today in the guickly mUltiplying field of
containing ghouls and ' zombies would mortified corpse. They were moving factors in non-approved gross, horror comics, but still are
wretchedly ' arise from the pages of the four the burden of the dreaded Comix Code done in putrescent fashion. Since THE
color com ix' loam. They flooded the market-at Authority. Authors and writers depicted them MONSTER TIMES always reports on putrescent
a time when the market was dying-and were so badly that they were banned for many years. things in our own putrescent fashion, we
twisted and mangled so that by the late fifties, Even today, zombies and ghouls are contraband unearth the foul-lowing facts of ...

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by Steve.Jenkins
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"Scenes dealing with instruments-associated with walking dead,

torture, ghouls and cannibalism are prohibited."
code for editorial matter. Comics Code Authority 1954

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II)

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C"
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The Late Great Undead EC Comix made the greatest that the doctor, like the obese salesman and the young ~~____~-C~~~~
Zombie story of all time. In a 1952 ish of HAUNT OF lady before him, is sacked and thrown into the
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FEAR comix , the yarn "Horror We, How's Bayou," set a quicksand bog, along with his personal belongings and 3
trend for zombie and ghoul comix for years to come. the car he arrived in. Sidney retires to an uneasy sleep. ..,...'COL."........" ~

Authored by AI Feldstein and Bill Gaines, and drawn by He is to get no rest this dark night, however. For tonight C)
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"Ghastly" Graham Ingels, it was a triumph of artistic is a strange night. Through some supernatural force, the ~~~r.=~~~~~l ~
and writing harmony. bodies that have been rotting in the quicksand are now
Despite the fact that "Horror We, How's Bayou" was reforming themselves.
a typical EC story (snap ending, over writing), it became The salesman's head is on the doctors body , the
a standout story of fear and terror. The story concerns woman's head fused to the salesman , and so on . The
two brothers living in the swampy morbid Bayou three conglornorates return to the mansion for what is to
country. Everett, the abominable younger brother, is a become an almost universal theme in zombie/ghoul
homicidal maniac who must be satisfied every so often, horror stories: revenge. They enter the house and, with
lest he turn on Sidney, his elder brother. Sidney, in the doctor's destructive tools, do unto Sidney, as have
order to stave off his brother's deathly desires, lures been done Ul)to their muddy mussed-up selves. They
victims to the dreary bayou hermitage by reversing a attack the hunchbacked Sidney, dismembering his limbs
road sign leading them to the house. and sew him back together, saying nothing, just Without doubt the greatest tide for any zombie story ever . • •
Every victim is given the same treatment; an offer to going about their deadly work. No true zombie would
spend the night. During the night Everett's mad thirst talk, and they do not. Clearly showing that this story down head hanging from the left hip, sobbing .. . the
for murder overwhelms him, and he kills and then had been researched to some extent by the authors. left leg, sewn to the left shoulder, crooked awkwardly
dismembers his gory gictims. Later they are tossed in a The narrator ends this tale of revenge in this manner: around a makeshift crutch ... the right leg Swaying from
sack and thrown into a quicksand bog. "Suddenly, a key rattles into the lock of the heavy door the right shoulder ... the left arm .. . ." Well, anyway,
Everett has done this bestial action twice as the story of Everett's room! He turns from the barred window! you get the idea:
opens. His third victim is a doctor. Following procedure, Disney, or what was once Sidney but is now nothing After "fixing" Sidney, they all return to the
Everett kills, dismembers and disposes of the bloody more than a confused reorganization of Sidney's quicksand bog, and we assume were never seen again.
remains of what is left of the doctor. Sidney sees to it dismembered bOdy, stands before him ... The upside While the story was rather grim and difficult to

More HORROR WE? HOW'S BAYOU? Tale from the Swamp •• .Artist "Ghas1Iy~ Ingels made us _ _ of poIuted water's hazards before even American industry did.

BENEATH ITS SUCKING SURFACE, TH E DISMEMBERED A STRINGY- HAIRED ROTTED WOMAN'S HEAD BOBS TO
PARTS OF THREE BODIES ... A WOMAN'S, A SAl.ES- THE SURFACE .. .
MAN'S, AND A DOCTOR'S ... BU M P TOGETHER, TURN ING
LAZILY... MELTING ••. FUSING. _. REORG NlllNG
TH YES •.. UNTI L ...
 The Monster li'm as
We've W'·"_PPED UPA OeLlG~TFUI.,..D/S~ FOR OUR
WHAT A FIRST WEIRDIe..1
co ON ••• A GRAVeYARD AND A ZOMBIE! ANO \F YOU CAN
IGUA,f: HOW TN'S TALE WI~ eND, YOU CAN GO ""0 'T'..,e HEAD OF 'T'HE
CL.AsS.'

were constant contributors. Although not of the same

cloth that the EC artists were, they were talented, but . ..:-::
~~

Lee did nothing more than have them hack out story
after repugnant story.
Many of Atlas' covers were decorated with zombies
-.-:&.
and ghouls, and yet the story-line suggested ghosts; mad
scientists, or robots. Representative of these frauds were
such titles as Mystic (No, 26 and No. 28) and Uncanny
Tales (No. 19), Apparently zombies and the like were
selling then, but no one in Lee's stable knew how to
write them correctly. \ ,.
A story in Adventures into Terror No. 30 is such a
case, It's apparently about zombies, but the story raises
many questions. Entitled "The Dead Don't Sleep", the
artists drew the zombies as ' eerie ghosts on the insides,
and like decrepit skeletons on the cover. They must be
zombies because they give every appearence of having
hjman material form (broken dirt over their graves,
holding knives) and the like. Yet they are drawn as
ghosts.
In one of the better Atlas tales, entitled "From Out
of the Grave" concocted by Gene Colan (who is still
active today at Marvel) the story line confuses ghouls
and zombies. The revenge motive is once again apparent.
The vent vindication from ttie grave on these who move
their bodies and sell the corpses to be sidsected by
doctors in surgery lessons. Yet, while the story is mildly
entertaining, the confusion muddies the plot~ The
entities have ghoul features black hair and chalk
face, but have the actions of a zombie.
In all the zombie comics of the mid-fifties, only~few
' Well, it r~ally wasn't. This "zombie" was lno~e like a putrefied giant leprechaun (he even WO(e green shrouds'. The "normal" . seem researched to get any sense of auth~nticit\f •.pne of
.human gains control by threatening to burn the zombie's old clothes ... which will destroy him. Wouldn't it destroy you? It destroy~ us!
these is "The' Mad Mamba" fromAdventuresJnl.o.l\lail1l
; ~ ilIustrate, ."Ghastly" Ingels, ', as he came to be known
'.- . dUI-ing,thefSe~tQddQes .aAIiasteduLJ.cib,ot,drawin-atha
story. Burderned by the overWritten captions-, Ingels
-' produCes ,an ,illustratillgjob that,still amazes tOCtay's line
. "comic-art" artists. It is a great tribute to Ingels when
one realizes that the cOrr:'ic artists of today have gone
twenty-odd years, and have still to match the ghastly,
. gruesome mood that Ingels conjured up in some of his
finest graphic works. Artist of heaving horror Berni
Wrightson swears by Ghastly Ingels.
Ma-';y of the other horror comics produced in the 50's
time period were oilly pale imitations of the fine horror
that · EC produced. The June 1954 issue of UNCANN'Y
TALES carried a story titled "When Walks the Zombie".
The story, both art and story wise would normally be
devoid of interest, but it was one of the very last stories
in comics to have the word 'zombie' connected with it
for almost twenty years. In October 1954 the Comics
Code Authority was formed, ' and bowing to outside
pressure, forbade many stories, including those which
featured vampires, zombies, ghouls and cannibals. The
. zombie went out witl:! a terrible example.
"When ' Walks the Zombie" would have to be AT LAST n.lE DAWN CA ... ,e. 'AIIIO WI'TH Ttl' IW'IOrlfliiMG I.IGHT, AMO WHAT OF
tilt LA~1 DAI'ICING CORPS~ 1<~-eHTeRfO HIS G~A't/e-! TWE LOI.A 8 I<'ITTOIII ,
considered as a , front runner if a poll for OLO WITCH F~ED FROM THE GIlAyEYAIlO, I.~AvING A THE GII2I. WITH
"worst--comic'story-EVER" was taken . The story is TIlAI&. OF EE~li NOTES HOYERING oye~ '1;.£ PATH THE iJtG IDIi,A~n
e~"41NO HER! ~HfRi WA&
simply pap, and the art is barren, arid rather childish. THE ~!,
The writer knew very little of the legends surrounding "noIf d&.012Y_
the zombie. According to no less a source as Webster's Ti.lf GIlSAT
FORTU"'E SIoIE:
Dictionary, a zombie is "a human being with-out will or WOIJ&.O 00 '
speech but capable 'only of automatic movement." Well, ANYTN~N(;
our zombie in this story can move at will, talk at will, TO GE"[~
and do everything ' else he heartily desires. This SO~£W"'I:ll'
IH ~AITlfA
pseudo-zombie is depicted as digging HIMSELF up from WiI.O-EVI:O
his grave each starless night at midnight to claim himself WOMAN 16
a victim. He then plummets back into his grave, and FI.YING AI2'OUI~"'"
1\01£ COUNTrlY-
awaits the next evening. . SIDe, iRVING-
Many times throughout the story all we see is the TO ESCAPE
zombie from the head up, from the torso up, or with his TIoiEMUSICOF
iWI: AI'IAD
feet seemingly, stuck in the unbroken ground above his MAMSA!
shadowy grave. ,This is strange in itself. How could the · BUT iHe
ground remain unbroken if he enters and leaves the grave MACABRE
AAYTHM' WII.I.
twice each shadowy night. And we're never told what NGVER.
our zombie does with the victims. They just disappear. STOP eeATI~G
-Stories of this ilk were the mainstay of Atlas Comics, IN HER MAO
SRAiN!
EC's main competitioo those days.lt'~ editor was Stan
Lee. Lee, as opposed to Feldstein, Gaines and ,the other
men at Ee, had absolutely no standard of quality. Any
schlock available was thrown in. And tl'1rown in '
,f requently. Whereas, EC had a top staff of artists and
"First you put your tarsels close u~tight! - then ya rattle to the left, and ya clatter to the right! .•.then y~ jingle and jangle and
authors. Lee had several good artists working for him on clank all night! • ~ • that's what WE call - J"HE MAD MAMBA!" . .
these books. Joe Maneely, Joe Sinott and Doug Wildey
 The Monster Times page 9

Worlds, from the ever·present Atlas folks. Oddly enough,

this story makes no mention of zombies, but probably is
one of the best tales on zombies of the era. "The Mad
Mamba" is centered around two dancers who go on tour
to Haiti. One is approached by an old witch who offers
the dancer to witness the secret Haitian voodoo rites.
The danc~r agrees and goes to the appointed place, an
old burial ground. When she arrives the old witch throws
into the air some blue colored powder which turns to
flames. The flames · are estinguished and the smoke
covers all of the graves. Zombies break from the graves
and dance at the bidding of the frightful witch.
Arthur Miller, look out !
Even though it seemed to be best f it for a Roscrucian
Roseland, or a dime·a-d ance hall giveaway prize , "The
Mad Mamba" is one of t he few stories that has any real
truth concerning zombies. Haitians are notorious belivers

"Ghoul-a legendary being held to rob graves

and feed upon corpses. (They are neither man
not woman, they are neither brute nor human.)"
Edgar Allan Poe

in voodoo and zombies. And in "The Mad Mamba" there

is one of the rare instances of a zombie actually doing
the bidding of a living being, which is how zombies
supposedly do exist.

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Part of the memorable TALES FROM THE CRYPT No. 24 zombie cover, drawn by AI Feldstein, who also ""'"'~tf:!. most of their
horror stories, too. Mr. Feldstein now edits MAD magazine. A frightening thought. . .

"Zombie Army" which was totally forgettable. It wasn't rarely used correctly. When they have, they have been
really concerned about zombies, just . another stock ruined by either bad art or 'bad writing. Perhaps with the
character mad scientist. The art is very poor here, and relaxation of the code, comics will make proper use of
again the reproduction makes it worse. It was just zombies and ghouls. We hope that very soon we will see
another of all too many , too numerous to list . a GOOD zombie story, in a GOOD comic, with GOOD
Looking back over the history of the zombie in artists and GOOD writers . If and when it occu rs, we ' ll
comics, it is painfully apparent that th ~y have been certainly let you know! •
THE LIVING AND THE DEAD was another one of those stories
you've seen so often of revenge from the other side of the grave.
It" you want to see any more of them whatsoever, we highly t:2Nd50, PIERRe OABLOND
recommend Warren Publications, GREEPY & WEARY. 011:5 A5 HORRIBLE AS HE.
LlVEO,,, FOR THE SECOND
TIME.'
The zombie in the comics of the sixties have been
relatively ignored. The comic books und er the comics
code author ity are still forbidden. Or at least they were
up until 1971. At that t ime, the Com ix cod e allowed
both werewolves and vamp ires to be d epicted in the
classical form such as Dracula,Der Golem, et c. However,
neither Marvel of National or any other comix group has
done any zombie stories. We must assume they are still J
c
banned. (For some reas.on, the revised version of the
code has been kept quiet, and it is virtually impossible to
get a copy of the new rules.)
The black and white, non-{;ode comic magazines do
make extenstive, if not good use of the zombie .
Magazines such as WEIRD, HORROR TALES, and
SHOCK . Stanley and Eerie Publications are the major
distributors here .
Stanley Publications seem to use at least one zombie
story per issue. Often they are reprints of the poor fifties
material. Sometimes new material is included , most
being far worse than the reprint stuff. Sad but true.
Representative of these horror stories is "Zombie
Mannikins", illustrated by an artist named "Osway."
The story concerns a madman named Lebaron who uses
fresh dead bodies to make good looking mannikins,
which is a very strange sort of taxidermy indeed.
The story again is concerned with the weird revenge
motive, and is rather uninspiring. The art, though, is a
travesty. The bodies are badly .out of proportion, and is
made worse through muddied reporduction and bad
shades of gray. ' They called this member of THE ZOMBIE ARMY a zombie .. . but we have a little trouble believing them. But they said so in
Eerie publication recently produced a story entitled print, ' so it must be true. If it weren't, they ~Idn't be aflowed to put it inWEIRD. Ok, so it's a zombi.werewolf! Enough al..... yl.
page 10 The Monster Times

Eighteen years ago, Richard The book and the first film complicated the whole thing is over his face. The two of them went
Matheson wrote a novel; I AM were about vampiric zombies (or (Book/Movie/Movie) we got MT reeling back toward the sidewalk and the
white-fanged mouth went darting down
LEGEND. Since then, it's been was it zombie-like vampires?). The assistant editor Jim Wnoroski and at Robert Neville's throat.
made into two films. The first time, second film, we really can't be sure. top resident film reviewer Denny "Abruptly he jerked up his right fist
Vincent Price played the hero. In It's been said that it's too bad that O'Neil to write a and felt it drive into Cortman's throat. He
the second film (to show you how both films have been made, for now joint-review-article-book-review heard the choking sound in Cortman's
times have changed), we were given we'll never see Matheson's I AM which we've scotch-taped together throat. Up the block the first of them
came rushing and screaming around the
Charlton Heston in THE OMEGA LEGEND faithfully filmed. To give and called ... comer.
MAN. you an' idea how elaborate and "With a violent movement, Robert
Neville grabbed Cortman by his long,

"I
greasy hair and sent him hurtling down

Ihe the driveway until he rammed head on

into the side of the station wagon ...
"Neville dived for the door and
unlocked it. He pushed it open, slipped
inside, and turned. As he slammed it shut

oflhe
an ann shot through the opening. He
forced the door against it with all his
strength until he heard bones snap, then
he opened the door a little, shoved the
broken arm out, and slammed the door.
With trembling hands he dropped the bar

Om!ga
into place ...

i
"His rage-palsied hands ripped out the
clothes from the bureau drawer until they
closed on loaded pistols ...
"He jerked open the door and shot the

Earlli~.Blues
first one in the face. The mati went

on
"I is fingers shook as he turned the
spinning back off the porch and two
women came at him in muddy, tom
dresses, their white arms spread to enfold
him. He watched their bodies jerk as the
bullets struck them, then he shoved them
both aside and began firing his guns into
their midst, a wild yell ripping back his'
bloodless lips.
ignition key. His hands gripped the wheel "He kept firing the pistols until they
rigidly as he mad«; a tight U turn and were both empty. Then he stood on the
started back toward Gardena .. . porch clubbing them with insane blows,
"A groan cut itself off in his throat as losing his mind almost completely when
he jammed the gas pedal to the floor and the same ones he'd shot came rushing at
the small station wagon leaped ahead, the him again. And when they tore the guns
speedometer needle fluttering, then out of his hands he used his fists and
moving steadily past the sixty-five mark, elbows and he butted with his head and
the seventy, the seventy-five. What if they kicked them with his big shoes.
were already waiting for him? How could "It wasn't until the flaring pain of
he possibly get in the house? ... having his shoulder slashed open struck
"The silent streets flew past and he him that he realized what he was doing
kept looking from side to side to see if and how hopeless his attempt was.
any of them were appearing in the Knocking aside two women, he backed
doorWays. It -seemea 'as If it were already toward the door. A mal'l'"si ltin" loBted
getting dark, but that could have been around his neck. He lurched forward,
imagination. It couldn't be that late, it bending at the waist, and toppled the
couldn't be ... man over his head into the others. He
"Then, as he turned the ccmer with a jumped back into the doorway, gripped
screech of :Ii"glng tires, he couldn't hold both sides of the frame, and kicked out
oal.:K the gasp. hiS legs like pistons, sending the men
"They were aU in front of his house, crashing back into the shrubbery.
waiting. "Then, before they could get at him
"A sound of helpless terror filled his again, he slammed the door in their faces,
throat. He didn't want to die. He might locked it, bolted it, and dropped ' the
have thought about it, even contemplated heavy bar into its slots.
it. But he didn't want to die. Not like "Robert Neville stood in the cold
this. blackness of his house, listening to the
"Now he saw them aU turn their white CIwtton
Heston, vampires scream.
faces at the sound of the motor. Some "He stood against the wall clubbing
more of them came running out of the an... Man
occupMion: slowly and weakly at the plaster, tears
open garage and his teeth ground together lIXt.minator streaming down his bearded cheeks, his
in impotent fury. What a stupid, brainless of zombies bleeding hand pulsing with pain.
way to die! and other Everything was gone, everything."
"Now he saw them start running .-rnal things .• _
--from I AM LEGEND,
straight toward the station wagon, a line by Richard Matheson,
of them across the street. And, suddenly, 1954 Fawcett Publications.
he knew he couldn't stoJ;l. He pressed
down on the accelerator, and in a
moment the car went plowing through
them, knocking three of them aside like
tenpins. He felt the car frame jolt as it
struck the bodies. Their screaming white
faces went flashing by his window.
"Now they were behind and he saw in
the rear-view mirror that they were all
pursuing him. A sudden plan caught hold
in his mind, and 'pulsively he slowed
down, even brak. 6, until the speed of
the car feU to thirty, then twenty miles
an hOUf.
"He looked back and saw them
gaining, saw their grayish-white faces
approaching, their dark eyes fastened to
his car, to him ...
"He jerked the car to the curb and
shoved the door open. As he raced
around the edge of the car he heard the
billowing cry of their approach around
the comer ...
.. '~eville!'
"His body jerked back as Cortman
came lunging out of the dark shadows of
the garage.
"Cortman's body dove into his and
almost knocked him down. He felt the
cold, powerful hands clamp on his throat Sickly looking thing. that zombie-vampire, there. Vincent Price has been tracking him all
T_ ~ ego, ~ ..pem.ck a.t 25;! .. _. and smelled the fetid breath clouding ~ NcM for Mr. Price to stake his on-track bet ••.
'the 'Monster Times page J1

Part 1: _ Part 2:
.Mathe'son am Legend! Omega big nois.
By Jim Wnoroski . by Dennis O'Neil

·Richard Matheson is probably one of There's nothing new in THE OMEGA

the best all' around fantasy' writers of our MAN: you've seen pictures about the End
time, but if you aren't familiar with any Of Civilization As We Know It, and
of his short stories as yet, Mr. Matheson yot!'ve seen pictures about mutated
also scripted many of the early Roger monstrosities, and you've surely seen
Corman Poe mms such as TALES OF Charlton Heston slaying multitudes,
TERROR and THE PIT AND THE mus<:les a'bulge, teeth spread across his_
PENDULUM. He also wrote. the classic face like a piano keyboard. (Heston's'
tale of surreal marvel, THE INCREDIBLE dentist must . be ~ e proudest man in
SHRINKIN(J MAN. . Hollywood.) But the mm is worth your
Further along, Matheson went on to admission money nonethe,1ess. Director
writing approximately one fourth of the Boris Sagal has blended his elements well
scripts for the now classic fantasy - so weak, in fact, that had he blended
teleseries, TWILIGHT ZONE. them a tiny Mmore skillfully, he might
More recently, writer Matheson has ~ave produced a small treasure. Asit is,
been responsible for two of the highest
rated made-for-TV movies ever made ; ELi A WARNER BROS. PRODUCTION !
DUEL, a fantastic tale of a mysterious
ti THE . ··· i
IOMEGA
~MAN
"It takes forever to get service in this place," says OMEGA MAN's zombie-corpse who's .1AM LEGEND
obviously .eaten at YING's ... one of TMT's staff's favorite restaurants.
BY RICHA
city stalking out what resting vampires he And so, the zombie-vampires skewer MATHESO
can find and kill before sundown, when Vincent Price, THE LAST MAN LEFT
the zombie-like creatures arise again to ON EA RTH, to death before the pulpit
seek out Mr. Neville in a vicious circle of of an abandoned church . . . fit
Hide & Seek. punishment for a fellow who'd made his
The book follows Neville's progress ' daily work the eradication of all the
and survival over the · years since the vampire-zombie race with the old
plague mysteriously struck the world and stake-in-the heart ploy.
normalcy was destroyed. How he turns But.in Matheson's book, he poisons
his house into a fortress to keep out the himself with pills, on the realization that:
marauding invaders, how the memories of "Normalcy was a majority concept, the
the past and happy times come back to standard of many and not the standard of
haunt hIS dreams each night~ and how he . just one man.
finally finds that , due to an infection "Abruptly that realization joined with
~~..,.ai. lllt,Ji'jiP~eod.. , heAh<t~'
tlhwlttilig[Y=6~aiii?1!'thr~f1ri1b~-o; ~~1~~}~*~%{~tw1h~rlR~~ he's given us expert entertainment. There
Earth!" . were afraid of him. To them he was some
terrible Scourge they had ' n~ver seen, a are other survivors of the plague' in this
Matheson at any Price scourge even worse than the disease they OM . .
had come to life with. He was an invisib'le Most of the other survivors caught the
Now if that last sounds a bit familiar , sickness, lived through it, but were
specter who had left for evidence of his
it's because it also served as the title to an hideously oisfig.'red and driven to a
existence the bloodless bodies of their
adaptation of Matheson's novel made in raging paranoia whicn 'fllke-& t~ e form of
loved ones. And he understood what they
1962 by an Italian company. Starring religious mania. These , black-<:lad figUres
felt and did not hate them."
Vincent Price, the black and white fIlm who call themselves The Family , rip
. Many people considered Matheson's
was an interesting, seldom rising sleeper around Los Angeles destroying all traces
book to be far superior to 'the film that
that even today · is Virtually ignored by of science and culture ; their leader,
Vincent Price made , and kept up hope
television late show programmers. Even Brother Matthias, feels his is a holy.
that someday I AM LEGEND would be
. after dark, this flick remains coffined in mission. Heston, too , feels the crusader's
filmed again .. . only by the book!
its film-<:an , most or the time. urge , so he goes after the Family with
Then a half a year ago , it WAS remade.
Although THE LAST MAN LEFT ON Bu t the results of the ressurection? You submachine guns, pistols and bombs. In
EARTH suffered somewhat from faulty can see for yourself, as it's still playing in . the course of his attempts to finish what
pfoguctiort values and did ,not faithfully the boondocks and the smaller 2nd-run the germs started, he is captured,
live up 'to' Math,eson's own expectations in Big City grind houses, and Denny O'Neil sentenced to death, and rescued by -
the book , the film did possess quite an observes thusly . . . yes! - a third group of surVivors.
unusual atmosphere that was totally Although they are also diseased, they
lacking from the more recent Warner have not yet totally succumbed to the
Dramatic sketch of Vincent Price, from
LAST MAN LEFT ON EARTH pressbook Brothers take-off, THE OMEGA MAN, sickness. With their help, Heston finds a
with Charlton Heston in the title role. cure and ...
trailer truck threating the life of an More of that shortly . . .. and I won't blow the climax for
innocent driver, and THE NIGHT Vincent Price managed to ' keep his you . You'll probably guess it' anyway,
STALKER - the Las Vegas vampire story hammy qualities pretty much in check once you realize that Heston , Sagal and
that was so good that plans are now for this outing, and as a result the company aren't interested in making any
rolling to Telease it to theatrical motion audience relate s more to the Neville apocalyptic statements, nor are they
picture houses across the country. TH E character than the typical Price caricature willing to insult the audience's
NIGHT STAL KER had the highest rating which he puts on in most of his movies. intelligence with a sweetness-and-light
of any motion picture. Very much in the same vein of George ending. It's a compromise, and like all
But what has to be Matheson's most Romero's more recent underground compromises , it is unsatisfying. But
famous work was the novel he penned for classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD , anyone able to accept the realities of
the late pulp science-fiction writer Henry the film sports the same types of goulish commercial cinema won ' t object to.o
Kuttner. I t was called I AM blood sucking creatures - as well as an much; at least, the story has been
LEG END -and still stands today as one ending that no onw would ever expect. compromi s ed wi t h thorough
9f the best examples of imaginative For in THE LAST MAN LEFT ON professionalism .
literature ever produced in the fantasy EARTH's conclu si on. Neville finds that a To my surprise , I enj oyed Heston's
genre. new race of " quasi-vampires" ha s evolved performance. I n most of the roles he' s
Told in a no-nonsense style as yo u that can exist in daylight. and ";"ho played since his excellent job in Orson
have just seen , it graphically unravels the function as intelligent beings - not Welles' TOU CH OF EVIL . he 's seemed
tale of Robert Neville , sole survivor of a mindless zombies ou t only to kill and to have a Mcses fixa tion - recited every
strange malady that strikes the Earth plunder. And it is th is new race who bring line as th ough the Almighty \yere hiding
turning all except himself into ravenous Robert Neville to trial for the strangest in his tonsil s. Here, he's creditably '
. vampire-zombie creatures that make crime ever commited by a human being - human , givi ng his character suggestions of
nightmares corne alive. ' the fac t that he just exists AS A HUMAN Headache-ridden Charleton Heston needs a weakness, foibles, and even fears and
, Each day the solit<fry man scours the BEING. couple of tablets ... and a gag-writer. Continued on page 2.8
~9.12 The Monster Times

Ii
Spinach became a staple
veaetable in the '20's when
a simple seaman used it to
OF TNI "SD~ turn on an his power! The
Spinach Growen of America
Dim the lights and close the even erected a statue to the American institution
doors as those FETID
FOLKTALES or the 19'0" . that we all know as POPEYE. E. C. SEGAR
bubble rorth in FULL brousht this character into the THIMBLE
COLOR from the witch's '".
'Teatc~1
cauldron. A selection of the
sCil re storics from
HAUNT OF FEAR. TALES
; ;,1
,.
THEATRE well alter it was established but the
strip was Dever the same. ADd these episodes
. lrom the '30's will show you the m.... ificent sea·
FROM THE CRYPT. and . '
~,~L~E~~JlRO~~~ii.' includin, a rare uupuh· man It his best!

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ZOMBI ES) and being pursued by berserk

CIA men (Wendell Corey and Tom Pace)
as well as berserk agents of a foreign
power (Tura Satanna and Rafael
Campos). Carradine's scenes are actually
one long scene (in which he throws
together an Astro Zombie or two while
delivering a long, garbled,
pseudo-scientific rap to Franchot, who
doesn't appear to understand English)
spliced into the fIlm at various stages to
integrate it with the re st of the action.
Most of Wendell Corey's segments take
place in a "CIA office" (although the
~hole film seems to have been shot in
and around a cheap motel) where he
delivers a long, garbled , pseudo-serious
rap to his ever-grinning assistant, who
doesn't appear to under~tand anything.
Eventually the CIA agents and the seedy
agents of the unnamed foreign power
(which, with a little mental detective
work, can be figured out to be Tijuana)
tangle ou tside the motel and several
people get shot-:-although not nearly
enough of them to improve the flim to
any discernible degree.
The highLght of ~he ASTRO
l OMBI ES, outside of _ the opening
sequence , occurs when the berserk Astro
Zombie (Rod Wilmoth) runs through the
streets in search of a woman (he's been in
tha t basement lab a long time,
remember). After laying on a lab slab for
so long, this sudden activity begins to put
a strain on his batteries and he starts to
. run down, lurching from side to side,
until he recharges by pressing a flashlight
against his s~ull mask! He eventually does
find a woman, but she doesn't like him
any more~than the CIA does~-
As the press releases for this forgotten
classic point ou t: "Originally conceived
before the first heart transplant even took .
place, the thrill-laden chiller goes one step ·
bey·ond in that it also deals with brain
transplants." Like most projects that are
too far ahead of their time, the ASTRO
ZOMBIES was greeted with a dash of

SEE T AND YOU DIE scorn, a pinch of ridicule, and countless

tons of disinterest. To this day, more
than four years after the birth and
untimely demise of the ASTRO

1000 DEATHS!
ZOMBI ES, its producer-director-screen-
writer T. V. Mikels still dwells, in parts
unknown, in relative obscurity. Such is
the price the pioneer must pay for his
daring and courage!
But the press release sums it up best
when it points to the ASTRO ZOMBIES
Bet you were wondering what blinking-light eyes and stiff little anns _ berserk hunchback named Franchot and says simply bu t eloquently:
the heck we can do with Zombies. moving mechanically up and down in (William Bagdad), is busily assembling "See it and you . die a thousand
Like, aren't they a bit too few, if time to the methodical turning of his bers"-! 'human transplants' ( ASTRO deaths." •
not too much? One zombie film per wheels, treading sand in the jerky,
lifetime is about all that one person irrational way that wind-up toys do.
Although he looks harmless enough, three
can tolerate, and all we at TMT
or four tanks appear behind him,
have been doing is cramming
apparently trying to do him in_ The robot
zombies down your eyeballs. We're has no trouble elud ing them at first since
.zombie-ing you to death ... and neither he nor the tanks, being wind-up
then some. It's all a clever scheme, toys, possess any motor control at all (at
you see. Once you're dead, we'll one point one of the tanks' turrets starts
bring you back to be our slave. spinning mildly in manic monotonous
Kidding aside, the following circles, possibly a victim of sunstroke),
kidding article is one of Young they circle each other in dizzy indecision
Mighty Joe (Kane's) laffadaisical until one of the tanks accidentally rams
looks at the ON E zombie film that into the robot, who topples over on his
you must see, if you're only ever back, defeated, alth o\Jgh his legs continue
to kick since he hasn't completely
going to any zombie film as long as
unwound yet.
you live. You should live so The above must have had something to
long! ... do with the plot of the ASTRO
ZOMBIES , since that was the scene that
BY JOE KANE opened the movie. I never did figure out
the connection between the sandbox
The scene is a desolate four foot battle and the rest of the plot-which
stretch of the vast, blazing hot American consisted , according to a press release on
sandbox. The stilloess is soon broken by the film and my memory - of a berserk
the entrance of something resembling ASTRO SPACE CENTER dropout (John "Which way to the orgy of senseless killing?" asks this ASTRO ZOMBIE, banging on the
Robbie the - Robot, complete with Carradine) who, with - the assistance of a motel set's SCreen-door after recharging his head with a flashlight.
page 14 The Monster Times
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IN VIOLENCE,
IS THE SEED
OF THE
WILL TO
SURVIVE

ell
light is vile and offensive to one
so newly risen. The sick
moonbeams blazed like the sun
on his tortured pale eyes,
revealing to him more evil, than
most men ever see . . . .

Moo n light was

bright! .. . and the savage
barbarism of those painful lights
in that house compelled him to
approach, for violence is the
seed of life, to one who'd lived
with worms. He plod on to the
house . ...

His senses of smell and taste returned. He smelled the foul, The tickling grew more intense, like the gnawing of a
bloated stench of decay. He tasted the brine-taint of droppings rat, scraping, dawing with sharp nails and teeth,
from the small creatures who'd nestled in his mouth in the inside his groggy skull ... the gnawings took shape as
grave . . . his weak eyes focused on a cult of moving a thought . .. a horrible queasying thought that he
things ... he felt a tickling in his skull. The tickling told him knew the creatures who mulled in that violently
he'd been there once before! ... . well-lit dwelling. And that they threatened him!

If his belly wasn't empty and shriveled, he would

have vomited. He loathed and feared the beings who
dwelled in bright light. He remem~ed, somehow,
knowing them . . . once .. . twice, perhaps. He also
knew he must destroy them, if he were to live. Yet
they looked so BORED at the very sight of him.

He slashed the axe in arcs of ferocity ... it

seemed to him his violence was life only to He had chopped off their hands, and they were
himself . .. to THEM, it was a change in the unimpressed. He had slashed open their bellies
way things happen to be . . _ . . and spilled their guts upon the floor, to unravel .
like coiled snakes with sickly hissing
sounds . .. He had cracked skulls, exposed
r .......
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brains, opened throats ... And yet they stood,

unimpressed ... and what's more THEY DID
NOT BLEED!
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His own hands were aching. Skin

was rubbed raw, blistered.
Tricklings of his blood seeped down
the axe handle. They moved in
closer to him. Calmly. Surely.
Again he hefted

One of Them assumed leadership and spoke to him as one

might speak to a child . . . "We're very disappointed in
you .. . you don't learn. You don't change . .. you can't see
things our way. We' re trying to help you along, but you fight
us each step of the way . . . Maybe next time . . ."

They had poured cool, moist earth on him. It felt heavy and it felt
comforting. They had courteously given him a new grave .. . and
now as he drifted into semi·consciousness, he heard the last
•

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pad. pad· padding of their fading footsteps . . . The
chush·clink·chushing of "their shovels teased .. . He was alone .

..
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And so they hoisted him on their shoulders and carried him

back, those ones that would not bleed .. . who could not
bleed . . . they carried him down the hillslope, The incline
made blood run to his head . . . made his eyes bulge .. . made
him dizzy . . . All his senses were working, now: sight, hearing.
tt.ougtrt,taste,smell . .. He was alive .. . AND TO BE BURIED
ALIVE! AGAIN!

Would they be ready for him

the next time? He wondered.
Did they even care about It woul$! take time, of course. By then, the Ones Who Could Not Bleed would
'him? He knew that once he have sewn up their wounds, clamped together their gashed·open
regained his strength, he, The skins . . . returned their eyes to their sockets and their limbs to their
One Who Could Bleed, would bodies . . . perhaps by the next time he escaped from his grave, he, too, would
again force himself from his be just like them ... Perhaps then, he, too, WOULD NOT BLEED ! . . . He
grave • • • If he could ONLY hoped so . . . He violently hoped so.
muster up enough
VIOLENCE . . . Just
enou\tl .. .
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Bill GaiDes: from EC 10 DC!

Methinks it might be "Alas, in
Wonderla nd ."
There is another remake of Jules
Verne's THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND,
being shot in the Canary Islands with
Omar Shariff as its star. We just had a
splendid production a few years ago,
. . . is our way of getting the latest starring not only Michael Callan and
hot-off-the-wire . info to you; reviews, Herbert Lom, but Harryhausen creations
previews, scoops on horror films in as well. So where's the mystery?
production, newsworth y monster
curiosities, bulletins, and other
CO M I X CORONER: All
grues- flashes. There are several
contributors to our hodge-podge Teletype
MONSTER TIMES READERS
page ... BILL FERET, our man in Show should know William M. Gaines.
Biz (he's a professional actor, singer, who published those great horrific
dancer with the impressive resume list of EC ghoul and sci-fi comix of the
stage, film and TV credits to his name), early 1950's which were run out of
makes use of his vast professional business by the pantywaist Comics
experiences and leads to Feret-out items Code Authority. Well. Mr. Gaines
of interest to monster fans, and duly went on to publish MAD magazine
report on them in his flashing and prosper profoundly. You can't
Walter-Wind-chill manner. argue with success. and so last week I n issue # 5 we tal ked about He slept with a book under his
William M. Gaines was named Esquire magazine jumping on the pillow every evening. and each
monster bandwagon. with their morning he'd wake up and the
EnViSion STAR TREK with music. Superheroes of the 70·s. Latest book's contents wou I d be
Well maybe not precisely that, but close. publication to get hip is "absorbed." Or so he said. Without
Peter Hall, who just finished a directorial CRAWDADDY magazine. and their doubt the hillbilly song "Send me
chore on Harold Pinter's play, OLD new comic strip. TALES OF LOST the Pillow that You Dream On."
TIMES. will direct a new musical for ATLANTIS. alledgedly based on was . inspired by Mr. Cayce. the
Broadway entitled VIA GALACTICA . the mystical writings of Edgar Sleeping Prophet. We feel that the
It's written by Galt MacDermott who Cayce. If you aren't up on your rock tune by the lamentably
wrote HAIR and TWO GENTLEMEN OF mystics. Edgar Cayce was "The disbanded CREAM called "Tales of
VERONA. and Christopher Gore. (Gore?) Sleeping Prophet." who went into Lost Atlantis" helped inspire the
It takes place in the much distant future, trances. told people they could cure producers of the CRAWDADDY
when the entire solar system has been themselves through folk medicine comic strip. Mike Olshan. author.
colonized, and a group if inhabitants methods. foretold the sinking of and Frank Brunner, artist. Both
.trom·....tmv. -unimp6F1:ank planet wish _to _ . CalTfornTa into 1l'ie s-ea (California Mike and Frank are contributors to
explore new horizons. It's an ambitious ed itorial director of the bc sank. as you know. sometime in THE MONSTER TIMES. and their
venture but MacDermott's pulled off Superman group ... one of the 1968. just as Mr. Cayce predicted). work will be appearing quite soon.
some miracles before. Rehearsals start in most wholesome comix outfits this
July. side of Casper the Ghost. We expect
MONSTER ON PAGE ONE. That can be Both CONQUEST OF THE PLANET
Co-starring with Ray Milland in AlP's cryptsful of horrifically great
read a few different ways. OF THE APES and the suspense·chiller
FROGS are Judy Pace, Nicky Cortland, changes to be made by DC in the
A Black Magic opus is lensing now in THE ASPHYX, will be shot in Todd A-O.
and ... three water moccasins, four future. and wish success for the EC
London called LUCIFER RISING,
rattlesnakes, nine tarantulas, an ll -inch horror comix adaptation film
directed by underground film·maker
centipede and several black scorpions, currently out. TALES FROM THE
Kenneth Anger. Marianne Faithfu I is
plus a brooding moss-covered plantation . CRY PT . Con g rat u l at ion s,
starred and Jimmy Page of the Led
A British film company is planning MONSTER TIMES subscriber,
Zeppelin is supplving the score.
another "new" musical version of Lewis William M. Gaines!
Veteran Horror actor, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Carroll's ALICE IN WONDERLAND. (Most notably HOUSE ON HAUNTE
That makes 4 or 5 screen adaptations, a An Italian company is releasing film HILL) has been put into AlP's Blacu
few of wh ich were masterpieces . . • with the "mysterious" title, SLAP THE currently filming on location in LA

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COSTElLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, luminescence which is the basic lighting

but nonetheless dismissed it as faring far for the en ti re set.
below the quality of the best of the When our heroes are backed against a
Universal Frankenstein epics. Having seen wall · in terror, there are the shadows of
it again recently, I must admit I have gratings and bars projected over them and
completely re-evaluated it. the entire wall, adding to the trapped
feeling of the dungeon. Even here, all the
didn't catch and now cannot
bricks in the wall are very small and
subsequently discover, who directed it,
crumbling, as opposed to the oversized
but whoever he be, he be a genius. There
cinder-block type which have been used
was a scene where Bela Lugosi as Dracula,
again and again. Overall there are
bites the neck of Lenore Aubert and not
masterful uses of lighting and effects; the
only do we see the Count teething her
werewolf's transformations, the grotesque
throat, but by the use of a cleverly-placed
over-hung swamp and in the castle
mirror behind them, we are treated to the
corridor scenes, which sported some
sight of Miss Aubert's ecstatic expression
marvelously gothic and ornate
of horror and loathing, all at the same
furnishings ... yes, in ABBOTT &
time!
COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN!
In the dungeon scenes, for a piece of The next time you catch this little
superb atmosphere, we see a grate in the masterpiece on TV (probably for the
stone floor, from which billows of umpteenth time), don't look at what's
serpentine steam and mist are going on in front of you, but what's going
continuously spewing, as well as a hellish on in back of.them.

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ROGER CORMAN
meets
This is the last of the The first of the films of this period,
Poe/Corman series (bet you The Haun ted Palace (1963) , was actually
thought it'd never end!). Well, so a hybrid of Poe's story of the same name
thought most movie goers, in that and KP. Lovecraft's short story , "Charles
Dexter Ward." Distributors of the film
far-off decade (the '60's) when
reportedly balked when Corman insisted
Roger Corman's Poe-flix oozed that Lovecraft receive a screen credit,
across the world's movie screens, fearing it would detract from Poe's magic
cleverly concealed half the time box office appeal , but Roger won out.
from critical . eyes by the Again Coim an and crew were stricken by
Arne r-i can -I nternational Pix th e fin ancial plagu e spread by AlP execs
fog-machines. and th e ir per e ni aII y fri gh tened
To date, Roger Corman has accountants, but Corman is nothing if not
stated he will never make another dogged , and he managed to make this
Edgar Allen Poe-based film. Which fUm a marked improvement over most of
is good, judging by some of his the prior entries in the series.
The atmosphere of THE HAUNTED
worst . . . but considering his
PALACE is properly and vividly cold,
occasional masterpieces like damp , and misty , with flights through
HOUSE OF USHER (see ish No.4), stone passeageways and foggy village
and MASQUE OF THE RED street s captured on Connan's celluloid
DEATH (covered in this article) it canvas in eerie , vivid detail. Once again ,
can be considered a shame. We'd and this is one of Roger' s strongest
sorta like to see Corrosive Mr. virtues, he succeeds in making all these
Cor man m a k e a not h 'e r standard props and effects seem new
Poe-pic ... IF, that is, he'd do a
good job. So there, Roger, old
chum. THE MONSTER TIMES has
thrown the gauntlet in your face
with this series. Let's see you take
up the challenge ... and do (at
least) ONE more GOOD horror pic
based on old Edgar. OK? PARTTHRE
"THE'1fAUNTED PALACE" (thestorYJ
In the village of Arkham, in 1765, the uneasy villagers are aware of strange
goings-on at the mansion of Joseph Curwen (VINCENT PRICEL They fol-
Iowa girl to the Curwen house where she becomes the suhject of strange, rites
performed by Curwen . He is a warlock (male witch) who imprisons young girls
What was the
and leaves them to the mercies of strange creatures from the nether world.
The irate villagers watch and when they hear the young girl's scream, they
question him and his woman, Hester Tillinghast (CATHY MERCHANT) .
terrifying thing
The villagers burn him as a. witch. Curwen vows that he will rise from the
dead and curses the villagers, their children and their children 's children.
100 years later, a ship visits Arkham and de harks, Charles Dexter Ward
in the PIT
(VINCENT PRICE) and his wife Ann (DEBRA PAGET). Ward hears a
striking resemblance to Curwen, his ancestor. The townspeople are convinced
that Curwen's curse has been fulfilled and that he has returned from the dead.
that wanted
Only Dr. Willet (FRANK MAXWELL) helps the Wards to find their way to
the Curwen "palace" and on their way they encounter strangely deformed women?
children.
At the old mansion, they discover a portrait of Joseph Curwen and notice
its resemblance to Ward. They meet Simon Orne (LON CHANEY) the care-
taker, who seems familiar to Ward . When Ward looks again at the Curwen
portrait, a change comes over him and his personality and appearance change
to resemble his warlock ancestor.
Ward is waging a battle against the supernatural. influence of his ancestor
who seeks to take over his body, fulfill his curse and resume the evil ceremo-
nies with the nether world. Orne and another man who mysteriously appears.
Jabez Hutchinson (MILTON PARSONS), are the warlock assistants of Cur-
wen who have been awaiting his return. The strange sacrificial ceremonies are
mating rites seeking to unite humans with the evil creatures from heyond who
seek to rule the world. The deformed persons seen in the village are the dual
results of these ceremonies and Curwen's curse.
One night, while Curwen has taken over Ward. he unearths the coffin of Hes-
ter Tillinghast and invokes evil powers to hring her hack to life. Ann tries to
help her husband fight off his ancestor with Dr. Willett, hut to no avail. A
series of strange deaths, all by burning, of the descendants of the men who
burned Curwen over a hundred years ago arouses the villagers of Arkham.
Dr. Willett seeks to help Ann. They are surprised by Ward , completely
taken over by Curwen . Curwen prepares to sacrifice Ann in the mating cere-
mony of the weird creature. Outside, the angry villagers storm the mansion
and set it afire, destroying the Curwen painting. At this point Ward momen-
tarily regains his self, rescues Ann, and assisted by Dr. Willett they escape
from the burning house. As the "haunted palace" hurns to the ground, de-
stroying everything within, we see Ann and Ward , watching and realize that
a change has taken place .. . their resemblance is more to Curwen and Hester!

Roger Corman brought an additional this period that Connan managed to

four Poe adaptations to the screen before transpiant Poe from prose to pictures in a
packing'in "poor Poe" (as Karloff manner which the master deserved ,
referred to the oft-purloined poet) to
embark on more modem bad trips like
THE WILD ANGELS, THE TR I P,
BLOODY MAMA, and GASSSS. The
final four films of the series were THE
Without question, the masterpiece of this
quartet and of all the Poe fIlms was the
masterful MASQUE OF THE RED
DEATH, whose rich, decadent beauty ,
minus the low-key excesses of the
PAIAC!:
HAUNTED PALACE, MASQUE OF THE previous outings, was the most fruitful
RED DEATH, TOMB OF LlGEIA, and work to emerge from Corman-Poe's
THE OBLONG BOX and it was during posthumous partnership.
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~ .... AND
COUNT
again. The defonned inhabitants of the
doomed New England village are also a
IF YOU CAN THE
frightening sight : half-blank, fleshed-over
faces glimpsed wandering eerily and
aimlessly through, staring hypnotically
ORGIES OF EVIL!
through mists that reek of evil and death.
Price handles his role with admirable and . .. somewhet'e among the
effective ' restraint this time and the squirming, teeming terrors
ending leaves you wondering whether he
~as regained his original identity of
in this orgy of evil ... is
Charles Dexter Ward or not since, at the the thing, whose vile desire
very close of the mm, he still bears a she must obey ... or those
remlP"kable resemblance to Curwen, the
Arkham warlock of yore whose curse had she loves will scream out
fallen upon his head. Price does a good their lives on a bloodstained
;ob with both roles. altar of horror!
THE MASQUE OF THE RED/DEATH
was Connan's first British mm , again
starring Price but with a supporting cast
composed entirely of talented Britons.
Daniel Haller's stunning "sets brilliantly
record the brightly colored rooms
described in such loving detail by Poe in
his story. Connan equally delights in
taking his audience on a terrifying tour of OF·THE
the 'doomed castle, moving his camera
from room to room, from shimmering red
to brilliant blue to the blackest of black
chambers. There are outbursts of sudden
!tED
savagery as the perverse, decadent nobles
play out their last desperate hours in
these chambers while the Red Death
'sulks its way to the castle, but these are
not perfonned for cheap shock effect. This mind-bending
DEaTH
, Wb~ JID evil duke , clad in an ape ~k was used
in the poster art,
costume for the ,gala Masque B;ill soon to
as well as made into
~ ", . :_laygroun4.,.,Q! ' ~:~e,}~ ~ gj~away at
;btirn~«~a!1-:ve' by "'lt''''v engi¥fol dwarf,the matinees,
terror tres in the grotesquerie of the act for those who might
confuse MASQUE
itself alfd not in any Grand Guignol gore
(which means
effects. masquerade ball)
The film has an eerily elusive quality with "mask,"
,•.. Vincent Price
about it that makes it more than a good
sure had a MASQUE
horror ' fIlm. Corman himself once on his mask!
remarked that it was not his goal to show
evil. triumph ov~r .good, 'or vice versa, but
to record Poe's' own haunting ambiguity
plague-ridden veil of destruction over the
last of the terrified Masque Ball dancers,
he pursues Prince Prospero himself who
sees, behind the discarded mask of the
"MASQUE OF THE R~D DEATH" (the story) Red Death" his own face. It is at the
Prince Prospero (Vincent Price). a man of Satan and a tyrannical power in climax that the film really takes off, with
the land. encounters murmurs of rebellion from the villagers when he rides and let drama of death and desperation a carefully-choreographed spastic ballet
amongst them to invite them to eat the scraps from his table at a special end- unfold on its own tenns. With sure and of the .plague.,stricken dancers, a gathering
of-harvesting feast which he is holding for his nobleman friends. steady dialogue provided by screenwriters of other "Deaths", similar to the hooded
Gino (David Weston) and Ludovico (Nigel Green), encouraged by an old
woman's prophecy that the day of their deliverance is at hand, stand defiantly Charles Beaumont and R. Wright figure but cloaked in various colors that
before Prospero, who furiously orders their imprisonment, When Francesca Campbell, and a sturdy acting job turned match those of Prospero's chambers, and
(Jane Asher), a beautiful young girl, pleads for their release. she is asked to in by Vincent Price, MASQUE OF THE the fmal migration of this group of
settle their late. One man must die; is it to be Gino, the man she loves, or
Ludovico, her father? RED DEATH involves the audience Deaths who, after reporting the results of
The moment .of decision is delayed when Prospero sees evidence of the immediately and takes it for one of the their deadly missions, walk off together
. dreadful Red Death in the village, and orders that all dwelling houses in the most bizarre and hauntingly beautiful through the mists. The Red Death then is
area be burnt to the ground. He dispatches his couriers to the castles of the
other noblemen who have been invited to his Masque Ball-with instructions rides it is everlikely to enjoy. The climax seen disclosed to be only one of many
that they avoid the infected village. is almost as frantic as the freak-out scene messengers of destruction, stalking the
He retreats to his castle, a fortress against the Red Death with his com- in the British classic DEAD OF NIGHT. countryside with _the grim determination
panion, Alfredo (Patrick Magee), his guards, and the three prisoners. whose After the Red Death spreads its of the damned.
struggles for survival, he hopes, will provide some entertainment.
While the two men are flung into dungeons, Francesca is given jewels and
gowns, and instructed in the ways of the Court by Juliana (Hazel Court),
Prospero's companion. She is taken into his confidence, and shown the dark
workings of his mind, tortuously intent on evil, as a follower of Satan.
Gino and Ludovico are brought before the assembled guests in the banquet-
ing hall to provide amusement. Each is ordered to cut himself with daggers,
one of which is tipped with poison. Ludovico lunges swiftly by Prospero who
impales him on his sword. Gino is freed-but only to return to his village where
the Red Death is rainpant. But he promises to come back and rescue
Francesca.
Juliana calls on all the evil spirits to give her strengt h stemming from total
underst anding, and triumphantly announces that she has survived her own
sacrifice. Elated, she faces the slow swinging pendulum of the dimly-lit clock.
from the recesses of wh ich she hears a ·hollow, echoing voice, The gla!>S shat-
ters, and a scimitar-like blade thrusts hard at her crumpled body, as midnight
strikes the hour.
Unperturbed by her death , Prospero assembles his guests for the commence-
ment of the Masque Ball; a Ball which is transformed into a Dance of Death
as an uninvited guest. a man in red. passes amongst the revellers.
As death comes to the corrupted. the dancing is transformed into a sur-
realistic waltz to hell and Prospero, Prince of Evil, meets his Satan. as Gino
and FraJ1cesca are re-united.
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" . A crawling shape ... a blood-red thing that writhes.

vermin ... fangs in human gore inbued!"

THE TOMB OF LIGEIA was British-based Poe films but fails to evoke
considered by many as a slight step down either Edgar Allan or even a genuine setlse
from MASQUE. Missing the epic scope of Hollywood or Hammer horror. Maybe
and unique mood of Masque, TOMB was Corman realized that he was losing the
still one of the best of the Corman-Poe Poe touch he had struggled so hard to
collaborations. Intense and imaginative, it achieve, and so gave up trying to graft the
spins an intriguing web of ghostly master to the screen. At any rate, THE
confrontations, grand holocausts, and the OBLONG BOX was not the impressive
usually cryptic capers, but all threads are farewell that the TOMB OF LlGEIA
woven tightly and expertly, and the would have been.
revived.corpse of Poe's tale is given fresh
fascinating life. Corman's second British According to someone who worked
film , the TOMB OF LlGEIA features sets for him, Corman has pretty much
constructed by Britisher Colin Southcott, despaired of bringing even minor works
who contrasts the gray shades of an old of filmic art to the screen. Unhappy at
abbey where the film was shot with the the reception his statement on American
yellows and blues of the interior of the "youth culture" (GASSSS) received,
old house and the greens and reds of the Corman informed friends that he felt
fields where the hunting scenes take more comfortable turning out (in the role
place. The overall effect is one of rich of producer this time) the less ambitious
contrasts and one that adds tremendously efforts associated with him during the
to the macabre atmosphere of the film. early years of his career. For all his flaws
THE OBLONG BOX, Corman's final and defects, Corman is still capable of
entry in the Poe series, signalled a return turning out an occasional mm of real
to sensationalism and the abandonment merit (witness THE INTRUDER, his
of many of the subtler aspects that made powerful drama of racial bigotry and the
the MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH and civil rights struggle down South - with
the TOMB OF LlGEIA so effective. With William Shatner cast in the role of a
voodoo rites, human sacrifices and a power-crazed right-wing rabblerouser!)
es of violent murders, all mixed into a and, instead of turning his back on his
melodramatic re-working of Poe's original audience, we would hope that he
material, the film manages to sustain the continue taking cinematic risks.
higher production values that Corman Sometimes the payoffs are more lucrative
was able to maintain throughout the than probably even he imagines. •

"TOMB OF lIGEIA" (the story)

Verden Fell (VINCENT PRIet:. . is hurying his deceased wife Ligeia in
a n English country churchyard in IS~1 when the local parson protests that the
ceremony should not take place hecause the woman was not a Christian. Fell
counters that his wife will not rest 'hecause she is not dead' and he quotes her
philosophy: 'Man need not kneel before the angels nor lie in death forever but
for the weakness of his feeble will. '
Suddenly a hlack cat screeches and Ligeia's eyes open. Fell appears stunned
but triumphant as he explai ns to the parson that the eye movement was
merely muscular contra ction .
A few months later as nearby residents of an affluent community are on a
fox hunt, Lady Rowena Trevanion (ELIZABETH SHEPHERD) wanders
from the hunt and fins herself staring unaccountahly at the strange inscrip-
tion on Ligeia's tomhstone. A cat hisses, her horse panics and she is thrown.
Simultaneously, the hlack-dad figure of Fell appears and Rowena faints.
Her hunting compan ion, Christopher Gough (JOHN WESTBROOK)
reaches the spot. recognizes Fell as an old friend. Fell carries the injured Ro-
wena to his home. a vas! Gothic abbey. Rowena 's father , Lord Trevanion
(DEREK FRANCIS) comes in, holding the fox from the hunt which Fell re-
vea ls was Ligeia's pet. While they talk , the fox disapepars strangely but Fell
explBins that the cat has made off with it.
Some days later, Rowena visits Fell an d as they are about to kiss. the cat
darts between them and scratches Rowena's face. Fell resolves to have the
canine destroyed. hut the cat lures Rowena to the bell tower of the abbey
where she is nearlv killed before Feil re~('ues her.
The pair grow ~'!oser and are m arri2d and after a honeymoon Fell absents
himself from the abbey on the first night of their ret urn and several strange
events occur to frighten Rowena.
Suhseq uently nther stra nge events ,,('('Ill' as Fell expresses a wish to sell the
abbey onl y to find t h is implls;.:ible "lll('P no death certificate for Ligeia can be
fou nd . In another odd dc \'{dopment Fpi] hypnot izes Rowena who recit.es the
words of Ligeia 's phi loso phy of deai hl6sncss while unrler t he spell. Then , a
cu ri ous Chri~t()lihpr l'l'''pt' ns LgcI" '", ,<;;:',,'.'e (n dis('O\'~r anI,,' 11 wax effi gy in t he

Finaih-, the hn lTor -.:tru,·k Hov·:pna f-.rn;;..;he~.:; a Inirror \o.:hicn reveals a hidden
;:. O:;'Hlu!1 to thE' rny~u'ry of the black cat

CATorWOMAN
or a too evil to rnentiOh?
thing
listeh for the SCREAM in the night
lOOK into the eyes of the creature
who rules tile land of the living dead!
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Brave-robbing may be out of style, but fan exploitation isn't. Monster fans deserve a reliable
w.arket· test to rely upon befQfe 'sending money to all·too monstrous manufacturers. Therefore, to dull
the fangs of some vamp ires of our industry , we at MT innovate The Monster Market to product t est
items, and report accurately on them - and about the bargains, too!
IMPORTANT! If we are really going to be able to keep the monster magnates in line, we' ll need
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Thecaseof
the $2-
su~r
mask
"Fastest Gun in
the GriMlyard," is
what we called Mrs
almighty publisher,
Larry Brill, when he
. dolWled the
ZOMBIE mask and
weilded a cowboy
capgun he found in
an antique store, and
walked into the
Chase-Manhattan
Bank. "I didn't
know I was loaded," rvunc:h l
No. 3 Giant Bugs on the .
said larry.

larry's graveyard~een mask cost $2 at Horror House, altho they tried to get $3 ... but as the
mask wasn't advertised at $3, they let it go for $2, " As a favor." MT reaters shOuld make sure
they also get the same "favor" as the June FOR MONSTERS ONLY advertises the mesk' at $2.

Product Tested: Zombie Mask for sale at $2.00 instead of their off any tall buildings in a single
Available at: Horror House, new $3 .00 price. Well, blame "The bound.
235 Park Avenue South, Economy" for that. Everybody If you get this mask , take care of
New York, N.Y. 10003 does, y'know, these days. it .. . and a spec ial tip to the
Price: $3.60 plus 25c postage. The ad is a bit misleading, in a health-conscious, it is wise to rinse
sort of positive way. It says the out the inside of the mask before
zombie mask has black hair. The putting it on your face. Who knows
Yes, gang! You've seen zombies in hair is blue. Aha! A pleasant how long it was sitting around in
the movies, read about zombies in surprise, that! No one could the rubber factory, accumulating
books and magazines and comix possibly think the mask is your real chemical dust? . . or paint and
and THE MONSTER TIMES. Now face, with that there blue hair. So lac quer fumes? .. or polyester

TMTBACK
nobody would certainly try to do filaments? Hate to sound like the
you in. school nurse about this, folks, but
The hair is stitched into the what with all the problems people
rubber mask in one straight seam . are having with tainted tuna and

I1UDEPf.
The rest of the hair area is other edibles environmentally
temporarily attached with what polluted, you just can't be too
appears to be spray-lacquer. Pull it careful.
lightly, and it removes. We can It's a fun and freakish-looking So many of you have been
forsee a day when all that will hold fright-mask, we assu re you . But it's writing in for 'em, we've
the hair: onto the mask is that one not permanent, and needs to be decided to start a special
seam. cleaned and groomed as any pet MONSTER TIMES BACK
It's not real hair, either . . . a might. ISSUE SERVICE. Due to costs
sort of polyester fabr ic , resembling It m ight be wise to cut a large in postage and handling, all
spun nylon o r rayon. We took a hole in the recess indentat ion t hat back issues cost $1.00 apiece,
HORROR ZOIBIE lock of the hair and gave it the old suffices as the interior of the except for our rare collectors'
flame test. It d idn't burst into HORROR ZOMBIE mask 's mouth .
The zombie walks again prize, Issue No.1 at $2.
when you wear this mask
of mystery. Made of
flames, but z imply crizzled up into
a little ball of ash . Which is the
As the wrap-around mask fits
snugly over the head, and t he on ly ' ._.--._.. - - ---=-. ~ . -- .---
MIke a..dcs..,..... to:
...
safety feature, gang. If someone h oles for ventilation are two sl its in THE MONSTER TIIIB.
heavy latex rubber. should accidentally set fire to the the nose and two eye-holes, you . P.O.ac.5I&
.0Id'a......sen-
Grave-yard green skin, mask's hair while you have it on, might find yourself fall ing into
New VOIlE. N.V_10011
the hair will just crinkle up into a zombie-like fits of unconsciousness
twisted teeth and black knot of ash at the top of the mask for lack of oxygen from time to
•
hair. and go out. You'll be moderately time. Might! that is. Enclosed is s--'for the back issues.

safe, having time to get it off your With these simple precautions,
head. Or so we think. and careful treatment of th is Name________________~Age~----
you, too can become a HORROR Now don ' t go letting zombie mask, you could have many
ZOMBIE! this information inspire you to start hours of enjoyment with this ~e~_~---- ________________
We've gotta admit, Horror sett ing f ire to people's heads HORROR ZOMBIE mask, running City_______________
House's zombie mask is pretty (monsters or otherwise). Just around and upsetting adults and
good, although it was a better buy a because a person has a parachute other dull people. State,_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Zip
_ _ __
month ago, when they advertised it doesn't mean he should go jumping a"CM. Richards
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BADTIME STORIES by Berni Wrightson,

Graphic Masters Publishers, 48 pages, available
via mail order, $5.00 per copy.

When a comic book editor wants a horror

co mix script illustrated with a shiver-ish style,
these days, the first name on his lips is _Berni
Wrightson : Berni's terrorific touch is so in
demand, and so effective, that both of those
giant comiconglomerates DC & Marvel use hini
to render their horror comic-zine covers as often
as possible.
Even though he's just a couple of years past
teen-hood (aged 23), Berni has had the honor of
J~~tn~_ ~Jh_~ BoXis_ Ka~loft~ian -or Alfred
- Hitchcock-ian host to comic collections - -of
horror, sci-fi stories in the DC line, drawing
bimseH into splash panels, introducing the terror
tales which are to foIl ow. This is pretty rare in an
industry where most comix artists and writers
remain relatively anonymous, and
unappreciated.
Now we have the first permanently-printed
soft-cover slick paper collection of Berni
Wrightson's own BADTIME STORIES.
Not only is Berni's work mysterious, it
manicly shifts from mood to mood with each
story .. . and each story is drawn in a different
media, black ink, or tone board, or painted grey
wash, etc. as if each story were culled from
different convohltional cubby-holes of Berni's
bwgeoning brain. -
And what worlds are kept hidden in those
creeping convolutional creases?! One of them is
our world in the not-so-far future ... our world, You have to ad mit,
that is, if we don't control our environmental that this fellow·feller's
KING OF THE MOUNTAIN, MAN!
mucker-uppers . .. a world where TH E LAST
HUNTERS stalk their prey. There's writing in

this; Wrightson word-smithery at its best ... '" UNCLE SILL NEVER DID BELIEVE
palpitating prose well-worthy of regaling SICFNS .. . IN A MATTER Of: WEEKS I ~E WA~
UP AN' OUT, ..
remark;
"They sat in a world of bilious black slime ...
the shore of a once green and living ocean; a sea
whose foamy brine once licked white sand ...
whose breakers once roared out its ceaseless
symphonies in an endless ode to the miracle of
creation. They waited... the After Men ...
'they waited in silence, like the now silent
waters ... they waited ... for the coming of the
dawn . •.
"The silence before the dawn was no different
now than the silence that followed it. The world
was all but dead, now ... dead, -except for the
After Men. Those pitiful, tenacious remnants of
a once-proud arrogant humanity ... the hunters
whose existence ' was little more than a
AlN"T HE SWEET? ..• 188 him screaming down the street.
near-useless struggle for survival in a polluted UNCLE BILL'S BARREL never waren't the same. after Undtl
and dying world ... " Bill got into it. He hunted moonshine in the moonshine!
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THEY SAT ON A BEACH OF BILEOUS BLAC K SLI ME , " THE SHORE The truly LAST
page 25

OF A ONCE GREEN AND LIVING OCEAN ; A SEA WHOSE FOAMY E'>RINE HUNTER; that prowls
ONCE LICKED WHITE SAND , " WHOSE BREAKERS ONCE ROARED OUT Wrightson's fearful
ITS CEASELESS SYMPHONIES IN AN ENDLES5 ODE TO THE MIRACLE future world:
OF CREATION , THEY WAITED -THE AFTER MEN -WAITED IN SILENCE , takes no pleasure.
LIKE THE NOW SILENT WATERS , . , THEY WAITED IN THE DARKNESS, and no pain in
AS THE MEN OF THE VIRGIN DAYS MUST HAVE WAITED FOR THE killing the last
COMING OF THE DAWN , , , remnants of the
THE SILENCE BEFORE THE DAWN WAS NO DIFFERENT NOW humanity that
THAN THE, SILENCE THAT FOLLOWED IT, THE EARTH WAS ALL brought him into
BUT DEAD, NOW , , , DEAD, EXCEPT FOR THE AFTER MEN , that world .. .
THOSE PITIFUL , TENACIOUS REMNANTS OF A ONCE PROUD his rifle shots, the
AND ARROGAN T HUMANITY , , , THE HUNTERS , WHOSE EX- crack of doom for our
, .., " ISTENCE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A NEAR USELESS descendents, as he
STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL IN A POLLUTED AND hunts them down and
kills them with all
the calculating
coolness of a
machine .

. --- ~ ::::---~

.~ --.. -. - - '"'" ---- -

The After-Men survey their world of soot and grime and oil-slicks and dim sunrises, in THE LAST HUNTERS.

A grim world, indeed.. . and a little more racket inside the coffin, in front of the grave, we
eloquent than "It's clobberin' time!" or other put a stone sayin' 'Rest in Peace' ... "
coined comiX phrases we've all heard. KING OF THE MOUNTAIN, MAN is a more
Not to give you the idea that this is a heavy recent Wrightson merging of the macabre with
book, ' tho . There's plenty of gore and grue and pioneer humor. .. but with an ending that is
fiendish fun to be found amongst the other definitely not for minors. . . so all you under
BADTIME STORIES. 17's out there, be ye warned ... this book is not
Forinstance, there's the last story in the book, for you . As far as 01' John Law is concerned.
UNCLE BILL'S BARREL, which was originally That's sort of a shame, but that's the way things
drawn for a defunct horror comic called WEB are ... a badtime story of another nature.
OF HORROR . .. in 1968. There are few more The $5.00 price on this volume seems a little
humorous horror stories ever done ... than this steep, but it is well done, and the paper is slick
gleeful tale of a hillbilly corpse who kept rising and the covers are kneat... partiCUlarly the
from his grave for his nightly swig 0' moonshine. back, which is an almost same-size full-color
Upon Uncle Bill's first rising from his grave, reproduction of Berni Wrightson's version of the
his hillbilly kin-folk grab his "animated prune" devil ala FANTASIA'S Night on Bald Mountain
corpse and shove it into a store-boughten coffin sequence.
(nailed shut) and bury him again. As the hill-tad So it's worth $5.00 to us .. . we're really into
narrator observes; " 'Cause he was raisin' such a Wrightson's writhing work . •

.. ,MY WEAPON IS USELESS , , . ,HEMOVES,EASILY,AND , , ,THE OGRE GASPS

ITS BLADE BURIED TOO DeEPLY E MISSLE STREAKS BY HIS AND STRUGGLES BUT I
IN THE LOG TO REMOVE, I HEAD , , ,BUT, THE FORCE CLING TO HIM LIKE THE
KNOW WHAT TO DO , ,.IT IS OF THE THROW PULLS ME WOLF TO THE BEAR, ..
REFLEX RATHER THAN STRAT- FORWARD AND THE HEAVY THE SWEAT BEADS AND
EGY THAT 8UIOES MY ARM CHAIN ENCIRCLES HIS ENCIRCLES MY BROW AND
... r THROW THE RIDICULOUS THROAT , , ,r CATCH THE PRO- THE OGRE SCREAMS. , .
THING AT THE FACE OF MY JECTILE WITH THE SAME HAND HIS MOVEMENTS SLOW
ATTACKER , .. HE GRINS, THAT LOOSED IT AND HOLD I AND FINALLY CEASE , , ,
AND COLD,DEAD LAUGI-HER IT IN A GRIP THAT ONLY TILL HE DROWNS IN HIS
ESCAPES HIS LIPS, ' . DEATH WILL BREAK , , , OWN BLOOD , , ,

THE TASK ... is the title of a fine story .about a contest between "good" and evil! Beware THE REAPER OF LOVE. He eats broken hearts and
drinks shed tears and even sleeps with Teddy .Bears.
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MT's BETTER THAN WHOM?

Dear "Monster Times" staff:
I have so far bought and read all issues
of MT, and, to my great pleasure, have
found them excellent. I am glad to see
To . that you have different articles than other
the EdIt magazines, sUch as "Famous Monsters of
MONSTER TI 01" ••• Filmland," which are reprints usually, or
Bo" S9S MES crummy film synopses. Also, I have
Old Chel found that you have excellent pictures
N S
eli Y01"k sea
1 ta. and drawings, I especially like the big
0011 2-page poster in each issue. In future
articles I would like to see-
Frankenstein photos and inside stories,
,. maybe an article on how to use make-up
c'" to become a "monster", and a story on
u. the life of Boris Karloff. Keep up the
c
'g' good work .
>,. Matt Klyppes
.c
c P.S. : I liked the fantastic STAR TREK
.2 issue and Mushroom Monsters and King
Kong.

Aw, Pshaw! We aren't really better than

Famous Reprints of Synopsisland, are
we? Shuck ~ ! That's a might cordial thing
to say Matt! Thank ya kongly!

HE BUYS TWO REVIEW OF

FOR THE PRICE OF TWO! CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Dear Sirs, Dear Sirs:
As a comic and monster magazine On Dec. 19, 1911 Stanly Kubricks "A
collector, I was thrilled to see your Clockwork Orange" premiered at
publication on· the news stand. Hollywood, New York, and at the Metro
It was love at first sight when I gazed Theatre in San Francisco, where I
through The Monster Times. Your articles attended. Since then I have seen it three
and format are. excellent. more times, and unlike 200 I: A Space
Since issue No. I, I have made it a Odessey, I cannot ·take my eyes off the
habit to buy 2 copies of each issue and I screen. Unlike 200 I it is fast paced and
have placed an ad in issue No. 3. the plot and message are understandable.
mu'RE THE lIED MONSfER! I hope Monster Times will continue to
be published just as long as monsters keep
A Clockwork Orange is, like Dr.
Strangelove a black comedy . It is sad,
on enchanting us and needless to say, that sardonic, satirical and lavishingly sadistic.
Yep, you are the Head Monster, balance . ... balance isn't an easy thing. could be forever. Like 200 I it is brilliantly visual and his
around here, as far as we're concerned. Kong had balance, 'till they shot him Yours Truly, ingenious use of music helps heighten
You, the Reader. You, the Subscriber. down. Frankenstein had balance with Anthony Capialbi your emotions to the violence on the
You, who digs monsters and horror and those monster shoes of his, but Der New York City screen.
science fiction and fantasy in movies & Golem had no balance when he lost his Yet the violence is not used as gore or
So you're the guy who's responsible for attradion as in other ftlms. In Sam Pekin
romix & TV & records & books; the star, and flopped right over. A monster
our phenomenal success! We thought all p ah's St raw Dogs the audience is anxiously
whole carnival-fuI of wonders that is the newspaper must walk a fine tightrope of waiting for the violence to occur from the
along it was two people buying one copy.
Mass-Media Renaissance of this century. avid but varied reader interest. It must beginning of the movie. Well directed and
Just goes to show ya!
These modern, imaginative wonders were present not only what it THINKS the performed, Straw Dogs is of fine quality.
made for You, and Your Journal, THE reader wants, but what the reader DOES However one is repulsed by the rape
MONSTER TIMES, is also made for want. INSECTX IN COMIX HE LlKEX and violence in "A Clockwork Orange,"
YOU! We gather news and info about So help us keep our balance. Tell us by due to the realistic style that Kubrick has
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We've got an overload of material, and in MT: monsters, comix, sci-fi, TV, I have to walk seven blocks to get to almost feels that he is there, a witness to
reviews, nostalgia, records, fiction, the nearest newsstand - but I'd walk all the brutality that is in the film.
don't know where to begin. We've got so
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much great stuff on hand, and so many product tests, news, etc. We will tally up
It's really great. I really enjoyed your rogue who is a cunning Psychopathic liar,
SPECIAL ISSUES already in the works your responses as percentages third issue. And since I'm an avid comic a thief, a sadist, a rapist , and a murderer.
(like a FLASH GORDON ISSUE, and a scientifically, using the largest hat any of book fan, I truly de-sected your article on Why then does the audience like him?
FRANKENSTEIN ISSUE, and a RAY our editors wears. super ·heroes modeled after insects. Well, he's intelligent, self-reliant,
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and .. . well we don't want to tell you goodies as .. . The Shadow, Spy Smasher, have been done without the dynamic
Captain Marvel, Flash Gordon, The performance of Malcom McDowell.
too much, some of the competition may
Spider, Capt. Midnight, The Green The main theme deals with taking a
be reading!), and we've got so many
Hornet etc. etc. - Since your author, criminal and making him incapable of
special features in the works, too. Jimmy Thornton, is such an expert on choosing between right or wrong. This is
We are planning more columns, The Green Hornet .. . why not have him achieved by having him become (through
reviews, news scoops, listings of events of do a big, detailed article on him. I hypnotics, drugs & other brain-washing
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publications planned ... top secret stuff, - Ronnie Howard. achievement has far more disastrous
and we've even planned a special X-mas New York City results as it leaves him less than human.
supplement combination gift-buying To me A Clockwork Orange is the best
guide of monster products and curios and We've got a Flash Gordon/Buster movie of 1911. I do not expect the
Crabbe ish in the works, Ron! readers to take my word for it, but to
a section we cheerfully call THE
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Filmed in Pennsylvania, w ith actual Pennghoulvanians as the canniballistic zombies , NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD became an overniqht li ving un-dead legend.

THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING Canby , reviewer for the New York Times, R omero has obviously st udied the mot ionless all through the flick. A small
DEAD is a strange film. It's sort of sai d in esse nce that the film looked masters. but he has far from copied them. f:ntlt to be sure. yet it still mars the
_abouCghouls.....and 'science fiction. amateurish in that he noticed many A better word would be emulate, as his overall plot stru cture.
-But ,ghouls are living who feed on scenes where the camera was not held style is definitely all hi s own . His irony
Karl Hardman . one of the fIlm's
the dead. In NLD, the dead rise up st eadily . resulting in jerky screen with all the characte rs (i.e .. the sister
producers. also Ilad the insistence to
to devour the living. So it's sort of a movements. Perhaps he refers to the finally being killed by her living-dead
include himself among the cast as the
middle of the picture when the audience . brother ; and the hero Ben, who fought to
zombie picture, too.Thenagain .. character of Harry. Although I cannot
as well as the characters on the screen , stay alive most . being killed not by
But whatever ' it is, it's been watch television newsreel footage that zombies but by the local sheriff who
quibble with Mr. Hardman 's talent for
making waves of controversy. First recounts the ever increas ing number of mistakes him for a member of the army
turning out a great motion picture on a
. it was eaten alive by the critics. minor budget . his talent as an actor
bodies which are rising from their graves of the dead) creates a very disturbing
Later, they ate their words of leaves something to be desired. Try to
to feed on the flesh of the living. There mood which canno t be easily shaken ,
scorn, and have praised the film to imagine a balding, 5' 5" Vincent Price
are scenes of panic-stricken people , high even after the movie concludes and one
and you've visualized him to a tee.
the skies. The most amazing aspect government officials being mobbed by leaves the theatre. All these elements.
of NIGHT OFTHE LIVING DEAD newsmen in Washington , D.C. , and an then , taken in total, provide fOT a picture
interview with the local county of classic calibre. Bu t aside from these two small flaws,
is that it was made by amateurs on NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD comes
a grant from a Pennsylvania sheriff-all done in a hand-held camera
style. It' s obvious that Romero intended Night of the living Die-gest close to perfection. There is no story
university. In many ways it looks padding, the actors (with that one
Iike a grade B product ... but One interesting sidelight on NIGHT exception) are all very good to excellent
keeping in mind the way it came OF THE LIVING DEAD was a Readers' in their performances. These , as well as
about, it's a grade A effort. But Digest review/ article in regard to the so und , lighting , make-up ,
Americas lax censorship problem. The photography, and direction combine to '
author Jim Wnoroski thinks it's
Digest article by author Roger Ebert make the picture the superb creation that
even better than that .... seems to see nothing but the blood in the it is.
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is a picture , feeling that this type of film has
classic film ... but nobody seems to no redeeming value and is unsuitable for Within a year since its critics predicted
realize it yet! the eye~ of the young- an adult being too it would die & stay dead , NIGHT OF
sophisticated to even bother with a THE LIVING DEAD achieved the
picture of this class. It seems, from all recognit ion it so well deserved in the first
"Say something against Readers' Digest, eh!"
11e horrifying opening scenes of scream MT-hating Middle-America zombies. this , that Mr. Ebert just wanted to speak place. Rex Reed and other major movie
NIGHT OF THE LlVTNG DEAD came on out on the condition of current film critics have all re-eval uated it - some
the screen. Direc tor Geo rge Romero set s thi s footage to be done in this manner. even comparing it to Don Seigal's 1956
trends , and N IGHT OF THE LIVING
the eerie mood right off in a cemete ry. simulating to perfection the condit ion of classic 'INVASION OF THE BODY
DEAD was the closest film at hand when
Johnny and Barbara arrive early on a act ualit y . so -necessary for beli evability. SNATCHERS' And the public has caught
the article was written , thus becoming an
gloomy evening to place a wreath at their 1n fact. this lack 0" si udio perfection is
already pre-judged scapegoat. An on too , as booking agents have well
grandfather' s grave. Romero. who :.1Iso whal probably contributes most to the re alized in billing the fIlm witheverything
interest ing sidelight too is the fact that
doubles as the film's cinematographer. is pic tur e's overall Sllccess with ' the from Tod Browning's FREAKS to Woody
Mr. Ebert later wen t on to write the
evidently a student of the old "Universal " movie-going publ ic. I t's almost Iike Allen's BANANAS. The picture has even
screenp lay of Russ Meyer' s sex pose of
school of the thirties. Directly from the watch ing what you could call a demonic had the distinction of playing six and
blood and violence . BEYOND THE
start in the cemetery, where brother and documentary . seven month engagements in both New
VALLEY OF THE DOLLS.
sister come under attack by a frightening Another big objection to the film is its York and Los Angeles - as well as being
disheveled stranger, there are a number of tastelessness in showing explicit gore I n all fairness. however , to the art of added to the French · Film Archives for
James Whale-like slanted shots with scenes. A few in particular reveal several criticism , the film does have a few minor classic cinema.
additional high and low level angles. members of the living dead literally inconsistancies. One of which is a scene
James Whale you may recall was one of ripping apart the dead bodies of a young where Barbara flees to a seemingly All in all , it seems the true key for
Universal Pictures' most talented couple and devouring them in full deserted house, only to find the appreciating NIGHT OF THE L VIING
directors of the thirties, turning out such close-up. Romero stays with the walking occupant , a woman , severely mangled at DEAD is involvement. Engrossing oneself
classics as FRANKENSTEIN and THE zombies, in all states of decomposition. as the top of a flight of stairs. Throughout in the film , which most critics failed to
INVISIBU; MAN. the audience watches them sal ivate ove r th e film the audience is led to accept the do the first time out , will put the viewer
an arm , liver, brain , eye. or what have fac t that soon after death the corpse will right in the middle of a "plausible
Canby can be a dead-head you . In another scene, a small girl rise and seek out human flesh (and indeed fantasy" - a paradox to be sure , but
Some reviewers have argued over and repeatedly stabs her frantic mother with a this is the case with all others in the there's always something different and
picked at the movies finer points. Vincent sharp garden hoc . picture), yet this woman remains still and unusual abou t a classic. •
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I am the Le gend of the

Last Omega--Man on
Earth-Blues
Continued from page -11

doubts. Oh, he's heroic - downing '

baddies with the casual earnestness of a
camp counsellor inveighing against the
evils of smoking - but he man;lges to hint
that he regrets his bloodletting.
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Good as Heston is, he looks POSTERS
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Brother Matthais. I'm coming to believe FRANK FRAZETTA. 3 awe and fascination. The
Zerbe i.s the finest young character actor ~For mood and tone and colors and details are re-
in the movies. His redneck cop in THE anatomy and stark por- produced magnificently.
lrlB-ERATION OF L.B. JONES is a lesson traits of wonder, Frazetta Breathtaking to see and
in the art ot portraying pitiful creeps. In is the master! Each poster
THE OMEGA MAN , Zerbe 's task is
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 into a room where Marlowe and hIS
assistant, Nicholas (George Zucco), are
performing a voodoo ceremony over
Betty and the doctor's wife. Marlowe had
kidnapped the girls for the purpose of
bringing his wife back to normal, for
which he needs a girl with the exact
Continued from page 5 mental plane that his wife formerly had.
After failing on the others, the girls had
become zombies and were kept in upright
Altermann succeeds in quell ing
coffin-closets and attended to by
skepticism. He further points to Lazarus
dim-witted Job (John Carradine's all-
as yet another of his creations. However,
degrading role worse than his
as he continues to rave about an
ASTRO~ZOMBIES or BLOOD OF
invincible army, he is shocked to hear a
DRACULA'S CASTLE). As the police
hollow-sounding " No! " emerge from his
interrupt his final attempt at restoring his
dead wife's lips. He remarks that he must
wife to normalcy , Marlowe is shot, but
continue to experiment on her, so that before he dies he destroys his wife and
her brain will be capable of only receiving releases the other girls from their
a nd obeying or ders, rather than zombie-like state. Yes it was another one
questioning th em. of " them"
Von AIterm an n wills his bride to
remain in he r dead state , bu t her will is
strong enough so that she rises on her I Walked with a Zombie
own power and disappears into the
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE opens
jungle. The hero convinces one Mammy
with a romantic , almost humorous charm
Beulah · (Madame Sul-te-wan) to aid him
in the form of a narration . I t is seemingly
in a fight against her master. She calls to
bare of macabre, but as with all of
Lila (in a high, wailing moan) who comes
director Val Lewton's films , there is to be
and tells him that only her husband's
found an underlying premise of terrors to
death can free her. The Nazi scientist calls
come. As the credits fade from the
out his zombies to stop, but Lila appears
screen, and while ocean. waves calmly
and her will power triumps ; the zombies It stalked from out of the tin mine! Really. That's where this zombie actually came from, in
pound against a desolate beach, the light
slowly lumber toward the petrified Hammer Films' PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIeS ... tho it sounds like a rot-tin yag.
voice of Betsy, the film's heroine
doctor. Von Altermann escapes from his
(portrayed by Frances Dee) delivers the
mdead creations, but in fleeing through
short prelude: "I walked with a zombie!" title is Jessica Holland Holland's wife, Unknown to the Americans, their
he treacherous swamplands, both he and
she laughs... with a soft, tinkling ghostly who is first proclaimed a zombie by Dr. arrival has been noted by Doctor Renault.
is zombie wife perish in quicksand.
laughter. Then the voice continues, "Does Maxwell, though only in jest. Mrs. Rand's Renault has succeeded in turning humans
REVENGE OF THE ZOMBIES was
seem an odd thing to -say. If anyone had story of voodooism is discounted by into zombies through scientific means,
oli6we d ' by another Monogram
said that to me a year ago, I'm not at all Maxwell when he recalls that Jessica but his guinea pigs have always reverted
emi-zombie mm in 1941 VOODOO
sure if I would have known what a never really died. What Lewton has neatly back to themselves... or died., .shortly
MAN.
zombie was! Ah well , I might have had accomplished in I WALKED WITH A after Renault injected them with his
In VOODOO MAN, Young Women
have been disappearing mysteriously near
some notion that. .. he was strange and ZOMBIE is giving us a zombie m·· serum, Nevertheless, he continues to
frightening . .. even a little funny. It all .without zombies! strive to create a being such as Kalaga
the town of Twin Falls. A retired
began in such an ordinary way . . . " (Darby Jones), a zombie created by
phYSician, Doctor Richard Marlowe
(Lugosi), lives near the small village with Indeed. Betsy takes a vacation in San Zombies on Broadway lVoodoo which he took from the natives
his wife, who suffers a strange malady. A Sebastian, in the West Indies. She meets a RKO, seeking to capitalize on what for his servant 20 years before. Enter
young scriptwriter, Ralph Dawson man named Paul Holland (Tom Conway) seemed to be a dying (yet still profitable) Jean LaVance, a torch singer. Mike is
(Michael Ames), becomes involved when who employs her as his housekeeper. ge nre, rei eased ZOMBIES ON turned into a zombie by Renault. But
a· girl from whom he hitched a ride Holland then takes Betsey downstairs BROADWAY, which combined witless before the doctor can inject his most
disappears near Marlowe's home. in his home where he introduces her to humor with low-grade horror. Top-billed recently developed serum into Miles, the
Dawson and the abducted girl's sister, Doctor Maxwell (James Bell) . It is the 'in the affair were comics Wally Brown heros get free and make their way from
Betty Benton (Wanda McCay) , report the phYSician who first calls her by her and Alan Carney who can only be the castle. Renault orders Kalaga to kill
disappearance to the local authorities, supernatural name , when he tells Betsy , charitably described as a pre-Martin and them , but the zombie kills his master
then journey out to the Marlowe "She makes a beautiful zombie, doesn' t Lewis team with none of the few instead , throwing his body into a grave
residence. They c\evise a plan to locate sh e?" "What is a zombie?" qu estions the endearing qualities which resulted in the which Ren ault had dug for the others.
Betty's miSSing sister, but Betty herself nurse. "A ghost! a living dead! It's also a success of the latter comedy duo. Sharing Jea n and Jerry lead the zombieized
disappears within the Marlowe walls. drink ." the billing (but not the sc reen time) was Mike successfully aboard the ship bound
Ralph and the police arrive and break Of course, the zombie denoted in the an already haggard-looking Bela Lugosi. for the States, and all goes well with their
The sc ript, whi~h was probably plans to display hin1 as "The Zombie
"I've heard of chicks on casting couches, but t his is ridiculous'" mumbled Alan Carney (in devised within a couple of hours (or so it Hut" attraction up until the last minute,
stitches) as Bela Lugosi's magic serum turned hi m into a cast·stiff BROAOWAY ZOMBIE seems), had Brown and Carney playing when Strager reverts to his normally silly
Jerry Miles and Mike Strager, a couple of self. Miller is about to personally shoot
press age nts for supposedly reformed the boys when the lights go off during
gangste r Ace Miller (Sheldon Leonard) , some scu me. Ou tsi de the office, the
who is attempting to finaiize plans for the capacity audience (including Walker and
open ing of his nightclub, "The Zombie Pro fe ssor Hopkins) con tinu e to chan t for
HuL" Problems arise when Miles and the proi11ised zombie. When the
St rager promise a zombie on opening attract ion does ap pear, it is none other
night. Th is is quickly snatched up by than Ace Miller h imself. the victim of
ra dio commentator Douglas Walker Re nau lt's stolen hy podermic needle
(Louis Jean Heydt) who announces that wl1ich stabbed him in the fight. Hopkins
the zombie will be just another of Miller's and Wal~er are satisfied and the nigh t is a
tricks to con John Q. Public. Miller total success - until Jeny Miles sits down
threate ns to liquidate the publicists if on the hypo and rises to become the
they can' t deliver a real zombie and, after late st bug-eyed monster! Lotsalaffs!
a short sojourn to a local museum . the ZOMBIES ON BROADWAY is an
boys learn from Professor Hopkins (Ian example of talent falli ng short of its
Wolfe) that a one-time colleague of his, potential. and looks little better than
Richard Renault (Lugosi)', sailed to the BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN
isle of San Sebastian many years previous GORILLA ... an even more obscure
to make a study of the phenomenon . Lugosi opus than Z's ON B!
Miller forces the boys to sail to the
island , and in no time a calypso singe r
Valley of the Zombies
warns: "Their chance to leave may come In 1946 Republic Pictures released
too late ; and blood on the ground may what was to become the last zombie title
mark their fate. of the decade with their VALLEY OF
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"The ground broke open and a rotting

swaying uncertainly. The hand that the
support dripped clots of mud and skin."

THE ZOMBIES. Although the title is all the jewelry stores on Fifth Avenue?"
something of a misnomer - having more The weakness of the 'fIlm can be
to do with vampirism than zombies - the attributed mostly to the low budget. The
low-budgeted quickie had a thoroughly pressbook praised director Edward Cahn
engaging plot throughout its brief as an "efficiency expert" for rigging up
58-minute running time. . actors Palmer and Ashley with bubble
Ormand Murks (Ian Keith), a mach i nes resembling oxygen tanks.
pathologically disturbed scientist, has Unfortunately , the effect is hardly
been committed to a mental institution convincing even on the mini-screen of a
by Doctor Rufus Maynard (Charles television set and the slow-moving actors
Trowbridge) because of his insane belief in diving suits behind the water tank did
that blood transfusions can prolong his little to aid this fraud.
life. He seemingly dies on an operating The horror fUm epidemic known as
table a short time later, but turns up very the "Teenage Monster" craze which
much alive in Maynard's office. He reveals ravaged the genre at the end of the fifties
to the physician that his one great life's caught up with the zombie in an
ambition has been to prove that man incredibly inept fIlm called TEENAGE
could appear as though he were dead, yet ZOMBIES. Starring Katherine Victor as a
live! Murks discovered that an foreign scientist intent on making
intennediate stage between life and death mindless slaves of most of the human
did indeed exist- a world of living death! race , she conducted her experiments on a
Murks tells the doctor that he learned the lonely island off the Californian coast.
secret in a "land of voodoo rites and devil The "teenagers" arrive as a group of
potents," in "the valley of the zombies!" pre-AlP " Beach Party " kids who are
However, once the mysterious serum is quickly imprisoned by the femme
taken, the gerson must live within this scientist's stoop-shouldered zombie-man
intennediate stage 'for the remainder of (who is laughable at best)~ They
his life and subsist on constant Having just dawed his way !rom the grave, Peter Cushing as the walking dead Mr. Grimsdyke eventually foil the woman and the foreign
transfusions. After Murks tells the in TALES FROM THE CRYPT gets ready .to deliver a valentine-shaped heart . . . agents who have come to get her secret in
physician his secret, he is told by the welcome climax. Most of the fIlm was
Maynard that he does not have the ' right (1952), was an unoriginal action effort which saved VOODOO ISLAND more shot on a desolate beach , in the back yard
blood type on hand. The revelation using much stock, footage from previous than rescued ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU, of one of the cast'S or crew's home, and
causes Murks to kill the doctor for his serials. It was later released in a feature which ' was released on a double bill with on a laboratory set which is perhaps the
blood. Murks' younger brother, who is version as SATAN'S SATELLITES THE MAN WHO TURNED TO STONE worst of all time-at the very least, it's a
convinced that Mucks has gone too f:lI. (1958) , but neither title accurately by Columbia that same year. Opening runner-up.
also pays with his life. And so on, to the described its mundane plot : an alien with the tinny. "canned" music familiar
M,u rkyend. attempt to overthrow the earth. to all those who frequented theaters on
Boris · Karloff turned up in a very Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons
Zombies sizzle the '60's
cheaply produced fIlm (partially shot in during the late '50's, ZOMBIES OF
Zombies of the '50's Hawaii) called VOODOO ISLAND, which MORA TAU begins with young Jan
An obscure film called THE DEAD
ONE surfaced unobstrusively , in 1%0.
With the trend of the early and was released by United Artists in 1957, Peters (Autumn Russell) returning to her The Mexican character Santo, a
mid-fifties leaning toward science fiction Karloffs role was that of Philip Knight , a Grandmother's home on Mora Tau off combination wrestler and mask.ed
rather than horror, it comes as little professor who is skeptical in regard to the the African coast after an absence of ten super-hero who has managed to face
surprise that script writers began powers of supernatural and voodoo. He years. She is met and driven to her almost every conceivable type of monster
developing more stories in which aliens journeys to an obscure isle where he finds Grandmother. at one time or another in a series of .
were reducing earthmen to mindless man-eating plants and voodoo-practicing Off the coastline, a boat has arrived to wretched South-of-the-Border epics (the
creatures, or mad doctors were using natives who tum members of the party dive for the huge fortune in diamonds end of which are not yet in sight)
science to create zombie-like creatures. in to shrunken dolls and mindless believed to be at the bottom of the sea appeared in SANTO CONTRA EL
CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN nonentities (they are never actually off the voodO{}-haunted Mora Tau. ZOMBIES (SANTO AGAINST THE
(1955), PLAN NINE FROM OUTER tenned zombies). While the fIlm is usually Leading the expedition is George ZOMBIES) in 1962.
SPACE (1959), THE EARTH DIES considered one of Karloffs worst, his Harrison (Joel Ashley) who has come INV ASION OF THE ZOMBIES was
SCREAMING (1964), MONSTROSITY competent perfonnance and the overall with his wife Mona (Allison Hayes), diver reputedly filmed in 1963 by
(I964) and NIGHT OF THE LIVING bizarre nature of some of the scenes (i.e., Jeff Clark (Gregg Palmer) and I selin-Tenny Productions, however most
DEAD (1969) are some examples of the two young girls play around a plant archeologist Jonathan Eggert (Morris researchers are in accord that the film was
fusing of science fiction with the which devours one of them) save it from Ankrum) along with a few -crewmen. eventually retitled and distributed by
supernatu ral. total disaster, appealing to fans of Before they are even underway , a figure 20th Century Fox as THE HORROR OF
Republic Pictures' chapter play, Gratuitous Gore. slips on board ship and kills one of the PARTY BEACH. ' ,
ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE The same sort of bizarre touches crew. THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE
Legends surround the sinking of the CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING
"Thought.,. said Tijuana was that way'" demands zombie who set off looking for SANTO
on page 6, aixI .-led up here on page 30. In case you're wondering, Tijuana is famed for its "Susan Bee" 60 years previous. Captain AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES
bars, and a Mzombie" is a kind of drink. SANTO is a ' kind of Mexican wrestler. Jeremy Peters, as he appeared so long (fonnedy THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE
ago, is still the same today , "except for CREATURE WHO STOPPED LIVING
his eyes," she sadly notes. For when the AND BECAME A CRAZY MIXED-UP
"Susan Bee" put in for trade way back in ZOMBIE) speaks for itself.
1894, the sailors discovered a cask full of American-International handled the
uncut diamonds protected by the natives. stateside distribution of an Italian Galatea
Captain Peters and a number of the crew Production Roma Contro Roma, whose
were killed in the struggle over the jewels, English title became WAR OF THE
while the remainder of the men ZOMBIES. John Drew Barrymore, son of
successfully returned to the ship with the the famed thespian, played Aderbal, an
fortune. But shortly afterwards, the Annenian priest who serves a powerful
undead Captain and his crew- now one-eyed goddess. The insane priest's lust
zombies- returned to their ship to kill for power causes him to lead an uprising
those who had survived the battle and to against the Roman Empire and he is
scuttle the ship as well . Since then they initially successful in destroying large
have been doomed to walk the earth as numbers of Roman soldiers through his
undead beings, to guard the treasure from magical prowess. When the Senate in
falling into th e hands of the living. Rome dispatches Centurion Gaius (Ettore
Perhaps one 01 the most humorous Manni) to quell the rebellion, Aderbal
lines comes near the end of the picture manages to capture the officer and
when Jeff Clark is trying to convince Mrs. restores an anny of dead men to do battle
Peters that the zombies can be foiled. By with the Roman legion. But when Gaius
distributing the jewels in every part of the escapes and the sorcerer destroye~, the
world, how will the zombies be able to do undead perish as well and order is
anything? "What would they do? Picket restored to Armenia.
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