Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in America 1957-1972

By Mark Voger

Time-trip back to the frightening era of 1957-1972, when monsters stompedinto the American mainstream Once Frankenstein and fiends infiltrated TV in1957, an avalanche of monster magazines, toys, games, trading cards, and comicbooks crashed upon an unsuspecting public. This profusely illustrated, full-color hardcover covers that creepy, kooky Monster Craze through features onFamous Monsters of Filmland magazine, the #1 hit "Monster Mash," Aurora'smodel kits, TV shows (Shock Theatre, The Addams Family, TheMunsters, and Dark Shadows), Mars Attacks trading cards, EeriePublications, Planet of the Apes, and more It features interviews with James Warren (Creepy, Eerie, andVampirella magazines), Forrest J Ackerman (Famous Monsters ofFilmland), John Astin (The Addams Family), Al Lewis (TheMunsters), Jonathan Frid (Dark Shadows), George Barris (monster carcustomizer), Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (Rat Fink), Bobby (Boris) Pickett ("MonsterMash" singer/songwriter) and others, with a Foreword by TV horror hostZacherley, the "Cool Ghoul."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1605490644
• ISBN13: 9781605490649
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Two Morrows Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great Book! If you can find it ...

For anyone who loved this period of history this is a must-have book. One of the best in my monster collection!