Television Horror Movie Hosts: 68 Vampires, Mad Scientists by Elena M. Watson

By Elena M. Watson

hour of darkness, 1954. A extraordinary girl in a torn black costume slinks down a cobwebbed, candelabra’d hall. She stops, shrieks hysterically into the digital camera, then solemnly says, “Good night, i'm Vampira.”
Her actual identify is Maila Nurmi and she or he was once the 1st in a protracted line of tv horror motion picture hosts, mostly visible on self sustaining stations’ late-night “grade Z” choices dressed as a few zany ghoul or mad scientist.
This ebook covers the main hosts intimately, in addition to kinds and express issues. item tie-in and fan reactions also are chronicled. The appendices checklist movie and checklist credits.

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