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Alien Creatures, by Richard Siegel and J-C Suares (Reed Books, 1978) From Oxfam in Nottingham. 1) Cover 2) The original shooting script from Robert Wise’s classic The Day The Earth Stood Still. 3) Republic Pictures classic Zombies of the Stratosph
Spectreman: Terror From The Sea & Spectreman: Man Turned Monster VHS covers (Date and distributor unknown) From a car boot sale in Nottingham.
Endpapers, by Uwe Bremer, to a German translation of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein. From The Science Fiction Book: An Illustrated History by Franz Rottensteiner (Thames & Hudson, 1975). From Nottinghamshire County Council Library Sale.
Cat O’Nine Tails, Directed by Dario Argento, VHS tape.(Warner Home Video, 1987) From a charity shop in Nottingham.
Advert for Killer Karate Course. From Male magazine, July 1968. From a charity shop in Nottingham.
Boris Karloff undergoing make-up application during the filming of Frankenstein (1931). From The Essential Frankenstein: The Monster, the Myths and the Movies, by Robert Jameson (Magna Books, 1992). From an Oxfam shop in Sherwood, Nottingham.
Cover and splash page from Secrets Of The Unknown No. 133 (Published by Alan Class & Co. Ltd.) featuring I Found The Girl In The Blue Glass Bottle by Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers. From a junk shop on Mansfield Rd. in Nottingham.
The Cave Girl, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tandem, 1977). From a bookshop on Charing Cross Road, London. “Suddenly Waldo became conscious that something was creeping up on him from behind out of the dark cave, and he swung his cudgel, aiming a wicked
The Horror From The Hills, by Frank Belknap Long (Belmont Productions, 1965). From a charity shop in West Bridgford, Notttingham. THE VAMPIRE FROM THE FOURTH DIMENSION I knew that something unspeakably malign was crouching on the ground beside me.
High Rise, by J.G. Ballard (Popular Library, 1978) From a charity shop in Sherwood, Nottingham. TENANTS OF TERROR The architect - suddenly the prisoner of his own proud creation. The liberated woman - in the embrace of brutal sexual ravishment and
Male, Vol 18, No.7 (July 1968) From a charity shop in Nottingham.
California’s Hell-On-Wheels Cycle Girl Gangs, from Stag Magazine, Vol.18 No.11 (Nov. 1967) From a charity shop in Nottingham.
Frankenstein, Ladybird Horror Classics (Ladybird, 1984) From Oxfam in Nottingham.
Dracula, Ladybird Horror Classics (Ladybird 1984) From Oxfam in Nottingham.
Eight Tales of Hoffmann, translated with introduction by J.M. Cohen (Pan, 1952)From a bookshop on Charing Cross Road, London. A bookplate inside the front cover reads ‘From the Library of Angela Carter’, indicating that the book had previousl
The Ultimate Warrior, by Bill S. Ballinger, based on a screenplay by Robert Clouse (Star Books, 1976) From Oxfam in Nottingham. THE TWILIGHT OF MAN This is the future. Earth, mortified by man’s greed and bloodlust, is on the edge of extinction.
Wildcat Adventures, June 1964. From a charity shop in Nottingham.
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett (Mayflower Sci-Fi, 1962) From a bookshop on Charing Cross Road, London. The war is over… The great cities of the world have been razed to the ground. Once more the people have returned to the country - frightene
Pages from Trip to Tullum, by Federico Fellini and Milo Manara. From CRISIS No. 61 (Fleetway Publications, August 1991). From a car boot sale in Nottingham.
The 2nd Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories edited by Michel Parry (Mayflower Books, 1974). From a car boot sale in Nottingham. ‘Step by step they dragged him, violently resisting, and now out of the door there came a swarm of large fat flies
The Hands of Orlac, by Robert Bateman (Four Square, 1961). From a charity shop in Canterbury, Kent.
Splash page from The Worst Man On Earth by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, from Uncanny Tales No. 26 (Published by Alan Class & Co. Ltd.) From a junk shop on Mansfield Rd. Nottingham.
It Was The Day Of The Robot by Frank Belknap Long (Dobson Books, 1963) From a bookshop on Charing Cross Road, London. “You stand before the humming computers and you fight off terrors. You feel a more-than-human wisdom crushing you to the earth,
Alfred Hitchcock presents Death Bag (Mayflower Books, 1974) From a car boot sale in Nottingham (for 5p). A SACK OF TERROR If you like your pages chilled, with a little blood spattered here and there, and a whole amount of diabolical cunning then Alfred
The Animal-Lover’s Book of Beastly Murder, by Patricia Highsmith (Penguin, 1979) From a bookshop on Charing Cross Road, London. Samson is a magnificent French pig who has been trained to sniff out truffles. But his owner never lets him taste one…
Behind The Mask: The Secrets of Hollywood’s Monster Makers, by Mark Salisbury and Alan Hedgcock (Titan Books, 1994) 1) Cover 2) Rick Baker stares out from the underskull on to which the mechanics are installed for Sidney the gorilla from The Incredible
Breakout, by Frederick Oughton (Digit, 1959) From a car boot sale in Nottingham. True, factual and immensely thrilling behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the most startling and hair-raising escapes from prisons. This is the story of BREAKOUT. It
The Holmes-Dracula File, by Fred Saberhagen (Ace Books, 1978) From a second-hand book shop on Charing Cross Road, London. From the writings of the late John H. Watson, M.D. It is with emotions doubly strange that I at last take up my pen to write
Tanner’s Twelve Swingers, by Lawrence Block (Fawcett, 1967) From a book shop on Charing Cross Road, London. In a moment of drunken sentiment, Tanner had made an absurd promise to a friend - sure he’d smuggle himself into the Soviet Union,
‘Space Wreck’: Section Of A Wrecked Space Craft Transformed Into An Anti-Gravity Lifeboat. Wonderwall. Gyroscopically Balanced Single-Tracked Linked Modular Crawler Units For Mass-Transportation Over Difficult Terrain. From Sentinel by Syd
The King Kong Story, written and edited by Jeremy Pascall (Phoebus Publishing Co. 1976) From a second-hand shop in Sherwood, Nottingham. “Did you ever hear of…Kong?” “Some Malay superstition. A god or spirit or something?” “
Shock 2, by Richard Matheson (Sphere, 1978). From a charity shop in Nottingham. THIRTEEN STORIES - THIRTEEN SHOCKS! Master of the macabre Richard Matheson presents his second collection of stories to chill and terrify - thirteen SHOCKing tales that will
The Vampire: An Anthology, arranged and selected by Ornella Volta and Valeria Riva, with a foreword by Roger Vadim (Neville Spearman Ltd, 1963) From a charity shop in Arnold, Nottingham.
The Lair Of The White Worm, by Bram Stoker (Arrow, 1960) From a charity shop in Canterbury, Kent. ’“Am I looking grave?” asked Sir Nathaniel inconsequently when he re-entered the room. “You certainly are, sir.” “We
Videodrome, by Jack Martin, based on a screenplay by David Cronenberg (New English Library, 1983). From Oxfam, Nottingham. In the world that lies ahead of us all, reality and hallucination will merge and interchange. So when Max Renn saw the flesh of
Illustration of Alfred Hitchcock from Alfred Hitchcock presents Stories My Mother Never Told Me: Part One (Pan 1964).
Alfred Hitchcock presents Stories My Mother Never Told Me: Part One (Pan 1964). From a charity shop in Nottingham. Anthology of stories featuring Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Shirley Jackson, Richard Matheson and more. From the Introduc
Adam Link - Robot by Eando Binder (Paperback Library 1965) From a book shop on Charing Cross Road. “Adam Link - the first of the robot race - had photoelectric eyes, an iridium-sponge brain and the soul of a man!” Eando Binder was the pen
Starburst Classics of the Horror Film (Marvel/Grandreams 1982) From a charity shop in Hounslow.
Only By Daylight, Edited by Christine Campbell Thomson (Arrow, 1972) From a charity shop in Sherwood, Nottingham.
William Peter Blatty on The Exorcist: From Novel to Film (Bantam 1974) From a charity shop, Nottingham. “It is Friday, July 13, 1973. As I write, Billy Friedkin, the director of The Exorcist, is returning from northern Iraq where he filmed at Nimru
Italian poster for Vampire Circus (Dir: Robert Young, 1972). From Cinema of Mystery and Fantasy by David Annan (Lorimer Publishing, 1984) From Oxfam, Nottingham.
French poster for Le Frisson des Vampires (The Shiver of the Vampires) (Dir: Jean Rollin, 1971). From Cinema of Mystery and Fantasy by David Annan (Lorimer Publishing, 1984) From Oxfam, Nottingham.
Italian poster for Dracula A.D. 1972. From Cinema of Mystery and Fantasy by David Annan (Lorimer Publishing, 1984) From Oxfam, Nottingham.
Cover and frontispiece from The Mammoth Book of Thrillers, Ghosts and Mysteries (1936) From a charity shop in Canterbury. A collection of stories from the likes of G.K Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Joseph Conrad, Guy de Maupassant, Aldous Huxley, M.R.
Breakdown, Edited by Dashiell Hammett (New English Library) From a charity shop in Canterbury, Kent. “The best horror stories of a generation selected by the author of The Maltese Falcon. DASHIELL HAMMETT is best remembered as America’s most
Psycho, by Robert Bloch. (Corgi 1977) Bought from a charity shop, Nottingham.
Vincent Price presents The Price of Fear (Everest Books, 1976) From Oxfam in Nottingham. “For the actor these kinds of stories in radio, film or theatre are an enormous and satisfying challenge. They call upon us to make the unreal real, the someti
Hollywood by Garson Kanin (Viking Press, 1974) From a charity shop in Sherwood, Nottingham. Garson Kanin (1912-1999) was a writer and director of plays and films. His works include My Favourite Wife (as director) with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, and,
The Tattoo Switcheroo by Martin Pasco, J.L. Garcia-Lopez & Vince Colletta. From Superman Official Annual 1980 (DC Comics/Egmont Publishing). From a car boot sale, Nottingham. Silver Age Superman story checklist: Previously unnoticed exact doppelgang
The Devil’s Home On Leave, by Derek Raymond (Serpent’s Tail, 1984) From eBay. After reading ‘I Was Dora Suarez’, I went and sought out the other books in Raymond’s Factory series, including this, the second. The back of the
Somebody Owes Me Money, by Donald E. Westlake (Hard Case Crime, 2008). From eBay. “I went up the stairs. Our six feet made complicated echoing dull rhythms on the rungs, and I thought of Robert Mitchum. What would Robert Mitchum do now, what
‘Where’s Your Love Been’ by Sandra Rhodes, Vinyl LP (Fantasy, 1974). From eBay. I first heard the title track from this album on Country Got Soul Vol 1, a great compilation released in 2003 (with a follow-up Vol. 2 in 2004), which featur
The Mighty Marvel Comics Strength and Fitness Book, Marvel Comics 1976 From a charity shop in Nottingham.
Bank Shot, by Donald E. Westlake (Book Club Associates, 1972). From a charity shop in Victoria Centre, Nottingham. “May dropped backward into the sofa again; she always sat down as though she’d just had a stroke. ‘What’s the story?
I Was Dora Suarez by Derek Raymond, Abacus 1991. Bought from a charity shop in Nottingham. “I see now clearer than I have ever done, that my work is a matter not just of my personal honour, as if, in spite of everything, there were still a spark
Bressonisms, From Sight and Sound, Winter 1976/7 Free from Broadway Cinema, Nottingham.
The Man In The Cryogenic Freezer: Interview with John Carpenter, from Sight and Sound Magazine, Spring 1978. Free from Broadway Cinema, Nottingham. “Do you really see yourself as belonging with the older generation of film-makers, people like Howard
Dark Star, by Alan Dean Foster (Futura 1979) Bought from a charity shop, Nottingham. “‘Listen bomb,’ Pinback pleaded, 'pretty bomb, logical bomb, lovely reasonable thermostellar triggering device…” 'Flattery will get you
Collection of old photos from various East Midlands portrait photographers (including Roberts & Son, Derby; G. Caldwell, Nottingham; Phillips and Freckleton, Nottingham). From a junk shop, Mansfield Road, Nottingham.
