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Where my monster love comes from

Growing up in my neck of the woods, we didn’t have a horror host and getting a copy of Famous Monsters wasn’t easy but we did have the Monsters Series of Books from Crestwood House. My local library had all of the ones pictured (and I swear a Creature one) and they fed my mad […]

Monsters on Wheels

What do you get when you mix Evel Knievel with the Universal Monsters? You get Ideal’s Scare Cycles, daredevil biker monsters is the perfect way to kick off our Halloween festivities this year.

Toys that should have been made: Maxx Fx

Friday the 13th seems to be the perfect day to showcase the Maxx Fx items from the 1989 Matchbox Catalog, sort of a monster version of Captain Action, had Matchbox not made a grave marketing error we would have had 10″ Mego bodied versions of Jason, Alien, Frankenstein and the Creature from the Black Lagoon […]