Love the Beatles! Any era! Even their brief famous monster phase.

Hard Day’s Night – Dickie Goodman

The idea for this t-shirt came from the B-Movie Cast podcast. Really, anyone who can make it all the way through Manos: The Hands of Fate should proudly declare their success to the world.

More Info:

• The B-Movie Cast
• Watch “Manos: Hands of Fate” for free at Archive.org
• Hotel Torgo: The Making of Manos (YouTube)

Forgetting You (Closing Theme from Manos)

So far, the subjects of my Countdown to Halloween have been slightly … eclectic? Obtuse? Obscure. I’ll be getting into some more famous monsters starting tomorrow.

Don’t pick up strange, skinny toes. What sort of germs do you think are on that thing?

“Skinny Toe” is a story off the old “Scary Spooky Stories” record and is a variation of the “Golden Arm” story that Mark Twain loved to tell. Many kids had great giggling fun speeding up the story on the record player. Courtesy of the awesome WFMU blog, I present “Skinny Toe” at scary, spooky speed.

Skinny Toe, 45 rpm

More:

• WFMU Blog: An Aural Halloween Trinity: Scar Stuff, Arch Oboler, Reverend Frost
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The Countdown to Halloween continues! Shrimpenstein! (Adobe Illustrator.) Dr. Von Schtick’s creation, patterned after Frankenstein’s similar but taller experiment.

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Here’s a Frankenstein tune from Dr. Von Schtick himself, Gene Moss, off his album “Dracula’s Greatest Hits.”

The New Frankenstein and Johnny Song – Gene Moss