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Sphere horror paperbacks [updated]
Sphere horror paperbacks were published in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s. They were hugely popular and many – such as Lust for a Vampire, Blind Terror, The Ghoul, Squirm and Dawn of the Dead – were...
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Emanuele Taglietti (artist)
Emanuele Taglietti (born in Ferrara, January 6, 1943) is an Italian designer, illustrator and painter. Born to an artistic father, Emanuele Taglietti graduated from his local art institute, then moved...
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Shako (comic strip)
“This is no cute and cuddly polar bear. He’s a blizzard of white hot horror, the terror of the frozen wastes, he is SHAKO – and he is death!” Shako was a horror comic strip published in legendary...
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Tender Dracula
Tender Dracula, or Confessions of a Blood Drinker (French: Tendre Dracula or, alternately, La Grande Trouille) is a 1974 French horror film directed by Pierre Grunstein. It stars Peter Cushing, Alida...
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Fleshbait (novel)
Fleshbait is a British horror novel, published in 1979 by New English Library. It was written by David Holman and Larry Pryce. Published at the height of the ‘animal attack’ craze that swept British...
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Bigfoot
Bigfoot is a 1969 (released 1970) American horror film. Despite its low budget, it featured some well-known actors and family namesakes in the cast, including John Carradine as “Jasper C. Hawkes”, a...
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Scream Inn (board game)
Scream Inn is a horror themed board game, first produced in the UK by Strawberry Fayre from 1974. Scream Inn was a a comic strip that ran in British weekly Shiver and Shake during 1973-74, and this...
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The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio
The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio is a 1971 horror film directed by Eric Jeffrey Haims from a screenplay by Donn Greer (assistant director of Satan’s Cheerleaders), based on a story by Bonnie Jean, very...
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House of Whipcord
House of Whipcord, made in 1973 (released April 1974), is one of the most significant British horror films of the 1970s, a bleak, grim and unsavoury slice of cinema that helped signal the end of the...
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House of Mortal Sin (aka The Confessional)
House of Mortal Sin (also known as The Confessional and The Confessional Murders) is a 1975 horror film directed by Pete Walker, and scripted by David McGillivray (House of Whipcord, Satan’s Slave),...
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Croc (novel)
Croc is a 1976 horror novel written by David James. One of the few US novels in the ‘nature strikes back’ subgenre, the novel was first published by Belmont Tower books, and was later picked up by...
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Tales of Mystery and Horror (audiobook)
Tales of Horror and Tales of Mystery and Horror are audio books released on cassette in the UK. They feature stories by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Christopher lee. Tales of Horror was first released in...
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Horror Pinball Machines
Pinball machines as we now know them first appeared in the early 1930′s and almost immediately were seized upon as opportunities for branding and cash-ins of all shape and form, from sports to popular...
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Dogs
Dogs is a 1976 American horror film directed by Burt Brinckerhoff and starring David McCallum, Sandra McCabe and George Wyner. Plot: On the quiet campus of the remotely-located SouthWestern...
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Pop-Up Frankiestein (toys & novelties)
Pop-Up Frankiestein was a plastic toy manufactured in the late 1960′s and early 1970′s by the Wilkin Toy Company of Hong Kong. Atop his turreted castle, Dr Frankenstein’s ghastly creation looms over...
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Genuine Soil from Dracula’s Castle
Soil from Dracula’s Castle was a novelty sold by Warren Publishing, through ads in their magazines such as Famous Monsters of Filmland, Eerie, Creepy and Vampirella. Launched to coincide with the...
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Ozploitation Trailer Explosion (compilation)
While Intervision’s Ozploitation Trailer Explosion is ostensibly a companion piece to Severin’s Aussie horror Blu-rays, it’s real connection is to 2009 documentary Not Quite Hollywood – they’d make a...
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Vampyros Lesbos
Vampyros Lesbos (Spanish: Las Vampiras) is a 1971 West German-Spanish horror film directed and co-written by Jesús Franco.It is, arguably, Franco’s best known film today, having reached a certain cult...
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Poor Albert and Little Annie (aka I Dismember Mama)
Poor Albert and Little Annie is a 1972 psychological horror film directed by Paul Leder (A*P*E, Sketches of a Strangler, The Baby Doll Murders, Vultures) from a screenplay by William W. Norton (Day of...
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Don’t… (film titles and tag lines)
In 1972, Poor Albert and Little Annie was advertised by Europix distributors with the huge tagline: “Don’t Open That Door!”. This low-rent film subsequently became better known by its 1974 re-release...
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