Favorite books about monster movies

[typhooforme]

If anyone want to read an interesting sci fi anthology--here's a collection Forry edited in 1981--of older sci fi stories he didn't want to be forgotten.  They're ones from pulps and so on, obscure stories by writers Forry admired.


Since the Forry book has nothing specifically to do with horror films...I'll also recommend this, a biography of Tod Browning by Skal.  Lots of info about FREAKS and other Browning films!

[garystrange]

[geezer butler]

Picked this up for $5 at used book store:

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[long live kong]

I got these from a car-boot sale recently, at the ridiculous price of 20 pence each. The Kong book is pretty concise with nearly 300 pages and packed with concept art and cool photos, and the Horror book is a great read too, and gotta love that artwork!

[Mike Scott]

I got these from a car-boot sale recently . .

Those are two great early horror movie books! I have the HC of the KONG book. It was redone, with additional info, a few years back, from Midnight Marquee Press.

[long live kong]

Those are two great early horror movie books! I have the HC of the KONG book. It was redone, with additional info, a few years back, from Midnight Marquee Press.

I was surprised at how old the Kong book was (1977), as the graphics on the cover appear quite modern. I'd like to get it in hardback, and with a little less wear and tear!

[Mike Scott]

I was surprised at how old the Kong book was (1977)

The HC was 1975.

I'd like to get it in hardback, and with a little less wear and tear!

I'm sure you can find one through abebooks.com

[long live kong]

Cheers Mike!

[Hepcat]

I got these from a car-boot sale recently, at the ridiculous price of 20 pence each. The Kong book is pretty concise with nearly 300 pages and packed with concept art and cool photos, and the Horror book is a great read too, and gotta love that artwork!

Wow! Great score.

[long live kong]

Some more of my horror/monster books....the 'Dinosaur Movie Guide' is an interesting book as it is basically a list of hundreds of movies that do not just contain Dinosaurs but any film with stop motion animation, large animals, cavemen, missing links and gillmen etc etc. The Dracula Scrapbook is an accessible history of Bram Stoker's novel and it's legacy in film and popular culture. A good read! I haven't read the Chaney biography yet!

[DBCrader]

One of the classics, first published in 1973.

      You beat me to it!!! This one is, possibly, my very first hardcover book. Still have it to this day, 40 years later!!!

[horrorhunter]

Movie Monsters (Scholastic Book Services, 1975) Alan Ormsby



I still have a well worn copy of this paperback from '75 that delighted many a Monsterkid.

Ormsby also starred in a monster flick most of us are familiar with:

[KelG1]

This was my first horror book: A Pictorial History of Horror Movies by Denis Gifford
I still have it but it is banged up something awful.
Classics of the Horror Film is in much better condition.
In those days so many movies were impossible to see on tv so looking at the pictures and imagining the stories were the only way to experience them.

I also have the Encyclopedia of Horror by Octopus press. Hope I have the title right. It has a foreward by Peter Cushing.
Instead of focusing just on movies, it talks about comics as well as historical horror--woodcuts, old paintings etc.

Another similar book I have is Penguin's Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural form 1986. In depth articles on a variety of subjects movies people.

I got the Vampire Cinema through a specialty store--and a few others, but then I ran out of money to spend on books.

[geezer butler]

Movie Monsters (Scholastic Book Services, 1975) Alan Ormsby



I still have a well worn copy of this paperback from '75 that delighted many a Monsterkid.

Man that "Movie Monsters" book is awesome! I had that as a kid. I used to read that pretty much every day. Wish I still had a copy.

[horrorhunter]

Man that "Movie Monsters" book is awesome! I had that as a kid. I used to read that pretty much every day. Wish I still had a copy.

Here's a cheap listing on evilBay, geez: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1975-Book-MOVIE-MONSTERS-Alan-Ormsby-w-Illustrations-/201779154677?hash=item2efaf98ef5:g:7KEAAOSwEzxYc9TJ

There are 3 other listings currently but the one above seems best. Make an offer and you might get it for 8 bucks with free shipping. 

If you are extremely patient you may find a copy in a used book store or flea market for next to nothing, but that could take forever.