Souvenirs Of Terror

Alexander Thynne – Blue Blood

demonik — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:14:58 +0000

Alexander Thynne – Blue Blood (Star, 1974)

Blurb:
Possessed by the devil in a MANSION OF MADNESS
An English Lord who covers the walls of his stately home with erotic art…
A beautiful wife caught up in the maelstrom of being a film star and international jet. setter…
A butler who can turn his hand to anything, until you wonder what he might turn his hand to next…
A young simple-minded nanny, a stranger in a still stranger setting…
And, at the centre of the mounting suspense, a young daughter whose mysterious cuts and bruises suggest the presence of forces beyond the imagination…

Thynne’s violent psychological thriller leaves it open until the final freakish finale when subtle suggestions of indefinable menace become reality.

James Moffat – Queen Kong

demonik — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:17:15 +0000

James Moffat – Queen Kong (Everest, 1977)

Blurb:
QUEEN OF A LOST WORLD

The legend travelled far: from an unknown tropical island all the way to the heart of London.
It told of a great beast, fifty feet high, ruling a jungle where time stood still.
It told of a bizarre native sect of monster-worshippers.
It told of savage rites and human sacrifice.
The team of explorers set out to film the mythical giant. They found that the truth was even stranger than the legend.
For the beast was an ape.
A lady ape…

QUEEN KONG

Gilbert Pearlman – Young Frankenstein

demonik — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:14:52 +0000

Gilbert Pearlman – Young Frankenstein (Star, 1975)

Cover painting: Anthony Goldschmidt & John Alvin

Blurb;
“You know, darling” Inga said, “I meant to ask you about that operation. During the transference the monster got a part of your wonderful brain. But what did you get from him?”
Dr. Frankenstein pressed closer to her.
“Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, that’s what you got!” she cried out delightedly, “Sweet Schatzi … ah … wait… ahhh … sweet mystery of life..:’

THERE WAS NEVER ANYTHING LIKE YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN A TERRIFYINGLY FUNNY MOVIE FROM MEL BROOKS (mad genius creator of Blazing Saddles)

Dean Owen – Reptilicus

demonik — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:40:26 +0000

Dean Owen – Reptilicus (Monarch, June 1961)

Blurb
SPAWN OF HELL
Reptilicus, the gargantuan prehistoric monster, crouched on the ocean bottom, ready to take off on another destructive rampage. A depth charge thundered. One of the beast’s legs ripped from the body and was blown out of the sea. General Grayson looked at the girl beside him, wondering if he would live to enjoy Connie’s warm, vibrant flesh again. Svend Alstrup, his aide, was remembering Karen’s wanton seduction of him and hoping for a repeat performance.
Suddenly, Grayson panicked, realizing that if they blew the animal to pieces, each section could grow into a new monster. That was the ultimate danger — a whole new generation of giant, reptilian monstrosities roaming the earth and annihilating civilization.
He gave the order to cease firing …

see also the Reptilicus thread on the Vault Forum

Antonia Barber – The Amazing Mr Blunden

demonik — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:35:26 +0000

Antonia Barber – The Amazing Mr Blunden (Puffin, 1972)

Blurb:

It was such an old house it sometimes seemed to Lucy that all the past was gathered up inside it as if in a great box; as though it had a life of its own that continued to exist just beyond the reach of her eyes and ears. And did the amazing Mr Blunden, who knew so much about them, mean to hurt or help them? Could she really help those troubled ghosts from another age?

The cover shows Laurence Naismith in the Hemisphere production of The Amazing Mr Blunden. Produced by Barry Levinson. Written for the screen and directed by Lionel Jeffries, the film also stars Lynne Frederick, Garry Miller, Rosalyn Landor and Marc Granger. The film is released by Hemdale.

Morton Cooper – The Munsters

demonik — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:57:35 +0000

Morton Cooper – The Munsters (Avon, 1964)

A Monster-ously Funny Original Novel Based On The Sensationally Successful Spook-tacular TV Series.

Blurb:
The Munsters live in a great big haunted house – in fact they haunt it. They are like any family you might know, except that Pop is Frankenstein’s Monster in a kindly mood; Grandpa, the Count, is a semi-retired vampire; Mama is ghoulishly gorgeous and Eddie-boy likes to to perch in a corner of the ceiling with his pet-vulture. And then there is niece Marilyn. She’s – ugh – beautiful! Ugh – normal!

Read the book and rock with laughter. Watch THE MUNSTERS every Thursday night on CBS Television.

Joseph Howard – Damien: Omen II

demonik — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:31:44 +0000

Joseph Howard – Damien: Omen II (Futura, 1978-1987)

From the Screenplay by Stanley Mann & Michael Hodges

Blurb

Robert Thorn saw Satan in his child. And Thorn died violently. Seven years later, Damien has been adopted by his uncle. Richard Thorn commands an international industrial empire.
A position of awesome potential power.
A position for which Damien is the heir apparent.
And as he grows in knowledge, he grows in evil …

Gordon McGill – Amityville 3-D

demonik — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:28:40 +0000

Gordon McGill – Amityville 3-D (Futura, 1984)

Blurb:

EVIL NEVER DIES…

When John Baxter falls in love with the house at 112 Ocean Street, Amityville, he is not impressed by the tales of horror that come with it.

That is his first mistake.

His second mistake is to ignore the warnings: the bizarre ‘accidents’ to those around him, the sudden plunging into darkness, the freezing wind, the
mysterious photographs. Nothing can convince him.

Until the hand of death reaches out to touch his loved one. And suddenly he is caught up in the terror and anguish that every occupant of that
house has known – cursed forever, never to be free.

Edgar Rice Burroughs – At The Earth’s Core

demonik — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:24:21 +0000

Edgar Rice Burroughs – At The Earth’s Core (Tandem, 1975)

Blurb

Forseeing only a dreadful death when their scientific experiment went wrong, David Innes and his company hurtled through endless subterranean miles until they broke through into a strange inner world at the earth’s core.

Pellucidar! A land of no horizon and eternal day. A world of weird beauty and terrifying peril, where ferocious monsters unknown to man, and beasts from a prehistoric age long forgotten on earth, roam the forests and swamps, and where the hideous and savage Mahars keep a race of primitive men and women in abject slavery.

MAX J. ROSENBERG and MILTON SUBOTSKY present AN AMICUS PRODUCTION starring DOUG MCCLURE & PETER CUSHING in EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS’ AT THE EARTH’S CORE
with CAROLINE MUNRO, CY GRANT and GODFREY JAMES, SEAN LYNCH
producer JOHN DARK
director KEVIN CONNOR
screenplay by MILTON SUBOTSKY
A film from British Lion

Kingsley Amis – The Green Man

demonik — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:31:29 +0000

Kingsley Amis – The Green Man (Penguin, 1990: originally Jonathan Cape, 1969)

Photo: Barry Boxall

The Green Man’s Maurice Allington is a worldly publican, but haunted. His pub is inhabited by the spirit of Dr. Thomas Underhill, the seventeenth century scholar rumoured to have killed his wife. The local sexton had refused to dig Underhill’s grave. And the rector had declined to officiate at his funeral.

And there are skeletons in the cupboard of Allington’s own domestic affairs – just rattling to get out.

For review and alternate covers see Vault Of Evil forum