Monsters from Royal Books, Inc.

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Draft script for an unproduced film. After being sexually assaulted by her ex-boyfriend and his friends, a girl teams up with a bloodthirsty monster to take her revenge. Set in Biloxi, Mississippi. White untitled Paul Kohner agency wrappers. Title page present, undated, with credits for screenwriter Donald L. Gold and story credits… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film, here under the working title "House of Monsters." Copy belonging to screenwriter John D.F. Black (writing under the nom de plume "Geoffrey Dennis"), with his manuscript pencil and ink annotations on virtually every page, noting deletions and revisions, and revising pagination. In his quest to discover… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1978. Draft script for the 1978 film. Laid in with the script is a typescript revision page, not numbered or dated. A satirical, low-budget cult classic, wherein a school of flesh-eating piranhas is released into a summer resort's river. Purportedly named by Steven Spielberg as "the best of the Jaws rip-offs." Shot on location in… Read more about this item

Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1944. Vintage press portrait studio still photograph of actress Blanche Yurka from the 1944 film. The lost daughter of a New Orleans debutante is raised by a Romani tribe, who help her hide her ability to change into a wolf at will, which she inherited from her mother. 8 x… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1943. Vintage reference photograph from the 1943 film, showing actor Lon Chaney Jr. in costume as Count Alucard Dracula. The third Dracula film from the Universal Classic Monster series, preceded by "Dracula" (1931) and "Dracula's Daughter" (1936). Count Dracula's son, Count Alucard, is invited to the Louisiana swamps by a young heiress,… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1958. Final script for the 1958 film. Missing page 70, likely as used or issued. Based on a 1957 short story by George Langelaan, about a scientist who is transformed into a grotesque, human-fly hybrid after his experiments with a matter-transportation machine go very wrong. A breakthrough hit for actor Vincent Price as well… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1945. Vintage reference photograph of actor Lon Chaney Jr. as The Wolf Man for the film "House of Dracula" (Erle C. Kenton, 1945), getting his makeup applied by legendary Universal Pictures makeup artist Jack Pierce, circa 1940s. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Chaney appeared as The Wolf… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1943. Vintage publicity photograph of Lon Chaney, Jr. and Louise Allbritton from the 1943 film. Mimeo snipe and "Photofest" label, obscuring a "Carlos Clarens Collection" stamp, on the verso. The third Dracula film from the Universal Classic Monster series, preceded by "Dracula" (1931), directed by Tod Browning, starring Bela Lugosi, and "Dracula's Daughter"… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1945. Vintage photograph of Onslow Stevens lighting Lon Chaney, Jr.'s way up a macabre stone stairway from the 1945 film. The last entry in Universal's famed "monsters" canon, a direct sequel to 1944's "House of Frankenstein," which appropriately hosted Universal's "big three" monsters, all in Dracula's house, including the Prince of Darkness himself… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: American-International Pictures, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film, here under the working title "The Spider." SIGNED by director Bert I. Gordon. With manuscript pencil annotations throughout. Fodder for for an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Season 4, Episode 13, Sept 14, 1991), where Gordon was resurrected as a master of bad taste. Small-town teenagers… Read more about this item

Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Vintage photograph from the 1944 film. Universal Pictures' follow up to "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man," ups the ante on its predecessor with the addition of Dracula (John Carradine), a mad scientist (Boris Karloff) and a hunchback (J. Carroll Naish). Glenn Strange takes up the role of the creature (the fourth actor to… Read more about this item

Beverly Hills, CA: Outpost Productions / Multicom Entertainment, 1994. Revised Shooting script for the 1995 film "Mind Ripper," seen here under the title "Wes Craven Presents: The Outpost." Round robin copy, SIGNED on the front wrapper by director Joe Gayton, producers Jonathan Craven and Peter Shepherd, cast members Lance Henriksen, Adam Solomon, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Giovanni Ribisi, and Dan… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1982. Draft script for an unproduced play. A play about an author attempting to write a story starring Jack the Ripper. Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), "Donovan's Brain" (1953), and many other science fiction and horror classics. His work consistently revealed an… Read more about this item