A MONSTER MISCELLANY

For your enjoyment today, another batch of stills and photos from miscellaneous monster movies dug up from the archives here at the Mysterious Mansion.

The Alligator People.

Barnabas Collins.

The Bat People.

Curucu, Beast of the Amazon.

Dwight Frye.

The Earth Dies Screaming.

Frankenstein 1970.

Gorgo.

Hedora, The Smog Monster.

How to Make a Monster.

I Walked With a Zombie.

It, The Terror From Beyond Space.

The Mad Ghoul.

Mark of the Vampire.

Monster on the Campus.

Paranoiac.

The Screaming Skull.

Tarantula.

Theseus vs The Minotaur.

The Vampire.

IT'S TOUCH AND GO!

Ray Bradbury's tale of murder, obsession and paranoia, "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl", appeared in ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE (January 1953). Since it was first published as "Touch and Go" in DETECTIVE BOOK Winter 1948, it has proven to have some longevity, being reprinted numerous times in books, magazines, and adapted for a TV episode of THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER broadcast on January 28, 1988, starring Michael Ironside and Robert Vaughn.

I first read it in this paperback edition of THE GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN (Bantam, 1967).

Here is the story as it appeared chronologically in three different magazines:

DETECTIVE BOOK (Winter 1948)

ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE (January 1953)

CAVALIER (February 1960)

It was also adapted in EC's CRIME SUSPENSTORIES #17 (April–May 1953) as "Touch and Go",  with script and art by Johnny Craig.