Time-trip back to the frightening era of 1957-1972 when monsters stomped into the American mainstream! Once Frankenstein and fiends infiltrated TV in 1957 an avalanche of monster magazines toys games trading cards and comic books crashed upon an unsuspecting public This profusely illustrated full-color hardcover covers that creepy kooky Monster Craze through features on Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine the 1 hit "Monster Mash" Aurora&39;s model kits TV shows (Shock Theatre The Addams Family The Munsters and Dark Shadows) Mars Attacks trading cards Eerie Publications Planet of the Apes and more!It features interviews with James Warren (Creepy Eerie and Vampirella magazines) Forrest J Ackerman (Famous Monsters of Filmland) John Astin (The Addams Family) Al Lewis (The Munsters) Jonathan Frid (Dark Shadows) George Barris (monster car customizer) Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (Rat Fink) Bobby (Boris) Pickett ("Monster Mash" singersongwriter) and others with a Foreword by TV horror host Zacherley the "Cool Ghoul"by Basil Gogos Mark Voger