HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GODZILLA!

Released to general audiences in Japan on November 3, 1954, 71 years ago today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ROBERT E. HOWARD!

The creator of Conan and many other memorable characters from the pulps' Golden Age born this day 118 years ago.

HAPPY 128TH BIRTHDAY, H.P. LOVECRAFT!

Art by J.K. Potter

HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY, JACK!

Today marks the centennial birth date of Jack "King" Kirby, arguably the most famous artist/creator in comics history. Not only was he the genius behind countless now-iconic super-heroes, Kirby also drew scads of monsters and other assorted creeps. Happy Birthday, Jack. You were the greatest!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JACK PIERCE!

HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY, SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHAS ADDAMS!



Chas Addams with wife Morticia -- er, Barbara (1955).



HAPPY 121ST BIRTHDAY, HPL!

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890 - 1937)

LON CHANEY SHALL NOT DIE!!! (APRIL 1, 1883 – AUGUST 26, 1930)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RICHARD MATHESON!

HAPPY 81st BIRTHDAY, RICOU BROWNING!

DRACULA FEST (DAY 1)

The first film version of DRACULA (not counting NOSFERATU, of course) premiered in New York City at the Roxy Theatre on February 12, 1931. It opened nationwide on February 14, 1931 -- a more fitting date on which to celebrate, don't you think?

MONSTER MAGAZINE WORLD is kicking off a week-long celebration in honor of The Count. Included today are stills, a poster, and a clip from the film. Also check the "Dracula Fest" tab at the top of this blog for more pics 'n stuff in the special DRACULA Gallery.

Bram Stoker, author of DRACULA

The first edition of the DRACULA novel (1897).

Tod Browning, Director of the 1931 Universal Pictures DRACULA.

HORROR HOTTIE: MAMIE VAN DOREN, HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY!

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HAPPY 71ST BIRTHDAY, GEORGE A. ROMERO!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, H.P. LOVECRAFT (AUGUST 20, 1890)

Birthday salutations are in order for HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT, the legendary "Rhode Island Recluse" who suffused the American literary tradition with what is arguably the best horror and science fiction of modern times. Within his concept of "cosmic horror", Lovecraft produced some of the most inventive and original ideas in fantastic literature. In a letter to Farnswroth Wright, then editor of the famous WEIRD TALES magazine, he elaborated: "Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.....one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all."

It is Lovecraft who has given us such unsavory characters as Cthulhu, Nyarlothotep, Yog-Sothoth and Azathoth. He is also the creator of the dread NECRONOMICON, a book of eldritch magic by the Mad Arab Abdul-Alhazred. It is plain to see that Lovecraft's legacy is firmly planted in the canon of fantastic literature.

Following is a monster magazine tribute to H.P. Lovecraft from RUE MORGUE #50. You will see just how far Lovecraft's ideas and characters have permeated into world of literature, films, and pop culture.