Nov 02
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Published 1972
(Average: 7.28 out of 10)
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Tag Wizard Comments: Skulls a-Poppin’, Jazz Hands, Eye-yi-yi, BEHIND YOU! … keep spinning that tag wheel Mr Morrow. Every one’s a winner!
Published 1972
(Average: 7.28 out of 10)Loading...
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November 2nd, 2017 at 10:08 am
Maxwell Smart and Agent 99?
November 2nd, 2017 at 11:03 am
Of course, all books in the “Frankenstein Horror” series were ghostwritten.
Any attempt to make The Frankenstein Monster write or dictate a narrative led to outbursts like: “NRRRHH! Books BAD!!”
November 2nd, 2017 at 11:04 am
Was the sequel about Montezuma’s Revenge?
November 2nd, 2017 at 11:06 am
Who stole the other eye? Mike Hammer is on the case.
This series has got worthy covers, worthy titles, worthy plots.
http://toomuchhorrorfiction.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-frankenstein-horror-series-1972-1973.html
November 2nd, 2017 at 11:08 am
They tried to take a trip to France after the Brexit. Little did they know they had bought..
SEVEN TICKETS TO HELL
(I know — it’s too soon, and I apologize to all Brits who didn’t vote for Brexit, and you have my deepest sympathy. But if we can’t joke about painful subjects, what’s the point of comedy?)
November 2nd, 2017 at 11:14 am
Photobombing circa 1972
November 2nd, 2017 at 12:07 pm
Those two people appear to really hate that cover blurb.
November 2nd, 2017 at 12:49 pm
@JP—They should have used that legendary old National Lampoon cover idea. “If you don’t buy this book, we’ll kill this blurb.”
November 2nd, 2017 at 12:55 pm
@JuanPaul – I was thinking that no matter the otherwordly peril we’re seeing on the cover, whatever’s out of frame must be even more terrifying, but I like your take better.
“Frankenstein Horror Series,” eh? So am I to assume that this book is assembled from patchwork pieces of deceased pulp novels and reanimated into an undead monstrosity far worse than its creator’s hubris let him imagine? Because that’s precisely what I’m going to assume.
November 2nd, 2017 at 1:18 pm
Why just one floating eye?!? There is natural space for two.
This really bugs me. I shall write the editors.
November 2nd, 2017 at 1:24 pm
“No, I’m not conjuring up the spirit of Lord Kum Rath, or Lord Kum Quat or anything—it’s just that if I move my arms my modesty hair fails big time.”
November 2nd, 2017 at 1:28 pm
@Lillie Awesome – Let’s not confuse the monster for the name of the doctor. The Frankenstein is the editor at Popular Library, not the lousy book we have to look at.
November 2nd, 2017 at 1:40 pm
@BM, Lillie: “It’s pronounced FRAHNK-un-STEEN.”
Ta for the setup, btw.
November 2nd, 2017 at 1:42 pm
@Bibliomancer — You’re correct, of course, although I somehow doubt the good people at Popular Library parsed that distinction so finely. I feel pretty comfortable deferring to modern popular usage on this one.
November 2nd, 2017 at 1:52 pm
As is so often the case, the Frankenstein Horror Series pales in comparison to the Frankenstein Comedy Series.
November 2nd, 2017 at 3:05 pm
OMG, is that Harlan Ellison in magenta? RUN, good lady, get yourself somewhere safe!
November 2nd, 2017 at 3:10 pm
So, action hero/detective from the mid-20th century and his Girl Friday versus the mostly-naked blue priestess with convenient nipple-obscuring hair of a one-eyed necromancer god?
If I were Our Heroes, I’d have to ask: why is the god one-eyed? It’s not Odin, is it? Unless he’s moved to the Americas . . .
November 2nd, 2017 at 3:27 pm
Twas Brillig and the spies with Colts
Did fire at the Priestess in the Grave
All flimsy was the Muerte cult
And the Kum Rath outgrabe…
November 2nd, 2017 at 4:08 pm
I just want to say that Kum Rath sounds like revenge sex.
November 2nd, 2017 at 4:10 pm
@Tat: Beat me to the Jabberwocky reference by half an hour.
November 2nd, 2017 at 8:25 pm
@A.R.Yngve (5): it’s like Trump’s Mexican Wall – the more problems, the longer it takes to not happen, the more tempting it will be for the people supposed to be doing it to blame Fancy Bear for rigging the polls.
@Anna T. La Paz is to the north of Kathmandu, isn’t it?
November 2nd, 2017 at 8:52 pm
@dswbt Trolling Harlan Ellison? Talk about a ticket to hell!
November 2nd, 2017 at 9:40 pm
My first thought: AAAAAHHH!
My first coherent thought: It’s the 70’s.
I don’t know what that font’s called, but it was used all the time on 70’s SF.
Do the pink jazz hands belong to the lord of the living dead? Then who’s the belly dancer? Why is a Mideastern dancer guarding Mexican treasure?
@B’mancer (1) Would you believe? Yes, I do. You’ve got it right.
@fred (4): Good link, sir!
@JuanPaul (7): Yes, they’re ignoring belly dancer, jazz hands, eyeball, and the undead to glare at and take aim at the blurb.
@TW: yet the tags do not contain BEHIND YOU!
This link reviews all of the series, and pans this particular one. It’s written entirely in second person.
https://groovyageofhorror.blogspot.com/search/label/SERIES%20Frankenstein%20Horror?zx=112b713a9df0ca97
November 2nd, 2017 at 10:57 pm
@GSSxN: It’s the font from Hawaii Five-0, isn’t it?
November 3rd, 2017 at 10:39 pm
@Tat: No, this one is much blockier/angular and way more drop shadowed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Five-O_(1968_TV_series)#/media/File:Hawaii_Five-O_Title_Screen.png
But I’m sure I’ve got this one on a few books from the 70’s. I think more hard-SF than this.
August 29th, 2018 at 12:34 am
I started out with two tickets to Paradise. A floaty eyeball convinced me that seven was better than two. Worst trade ever.