I'm sure it's been discussed previously but do we have any fans of the crestwood series here? I wouldn't be here if not for these publications, they kept my interest sparked in the pre vcr "late show" days. I still have a few from my childhood kicking around.
poseablemonster:
Oh, yeah. I'm a big fan of these books.
typhooforme:
Many Crestwood House fans here, yes. I was a librarian and teacher in another life, and had the Crestwood books on my shelves--and they certainly were popular! i can't recall now if there was a different publisher or just a different "line", but some were purple and some were orange. Maybe horror set vs sci fi set? I found the best info about them in UMA member Rick Stoner's MONSTER MAYHEM periodical, which was the first place I ever got a monster-collector article published (thanks, Rick!). And also through him I made my first "meeting" with Richard Olson...and with Dr. Monster/Dustin Jablonski--both UMA members today as well.
I don't have complete sets of the series, but I guess I have a dozen or so titles. I know they turn up from time to time on Ebay and on abebooks.com as well.
Marsha:
Yes..my son loves them. We check out the same books from the library every couple of weeks. They have about 10 titles in stock..so we do 5 one trip and 5 the next. I just recently started buying Matt his own copies on abebooks.com thanks to a great tip from a fellow UMA member. Now I just have to remember to keep them apart! :)
typhooforme:
Marsha, Those books are the coolest things for a young monster kid. The basic story of classic movies, told in basic language! What more could we want? I surely wish they'd been around back in the Dark Ages when I was a kid. I had EC Comics (and look what they did to my brain! bwahahahaahahahahaaaaaaaaaa!). I'm glad you're using abebooks.com--I keep that site bookmarked and visit it...oh....waaay too often, I guess. I get to looking up an author or a subject via key words, and before I know it, I've put 6 or 8 or 10 titles on my wish list.
I googled around a bit and found this partial/complete (?) list of titles that were published: Frankenstein, The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Dracula, The Mummy, The Blob, The Wolf Man, Godzilla, Mad Scientists, King Kong, The Phantom of the Opera, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, The Invisible Man, It Came From Outer Space, and The Deadly Mantis