As Peter Mitchell’s retrospective opens at The Photographer’s Gallery in London, we look back at our coverage of the show’s opening in Leeds last year| 1854 Photography
As a life-long Land of the Lost fan , I'd been toying with the idea of putting together a timeline chronicling the arrival and exit of all ...| the-haunted-closet.blogspot.com
I first became aware of Scott Corbett's 1972 ghost story The| The Haunted Closet
It was somewhat confusing for me to learn that Walt Disney was, in fact, dead.| The Haunted Closet
One of my favorite treasures from the haunted library is the 1970's UsborneWorld of the Unknown series, particularly the tome dedicated to Ghosts, which I covered in a previous post here.| The Haunted Closet
As my third-grade school year (circa late 70s) began to wind| The Haunted Closet
Pick any date landing somewhere in my first year of grade school and chances are I had "Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Animals" (1970) on loan from the school library that day. "...Animals" was just one of many books by Ed Emberley that taught children how to draw cute, cartoonish characters using just a dozen or so simple shapes and lines. | The Haunted Closet
Dead fish are popping up at the local fishing hole and grade schoolers Billy and Gobby are determined to find out why in “The Battle of Billy’s Pond” (1976), a Children’s Film Foundation (CFF) production I happened upon during “TV time” at my pre-school daycare in 1977.| The Haunted Closet
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In grade school, I was a regular patron of the Scholastic Book Club, the children's reading program that let kids order books and records from a catalog once a month and have them delivered right to their classroom.| The Haunted Closet
Read about Fourth of July, 1963 here.| The Haunted Closet
This entry in the "Golden Family Funtime" series is called (take a breath...) "Monsters: Fiendish Facts, Quivery Quizzes and Other Grisly Goings-on", a collection of essays, puzzles, games and trivia revolving around all things monster. Written by Donald F. Glut (he also wrote, interestingly, the novelization of The Empire Strikes Back, among other comic and horror titles for kids) and illustrated by Dennis Hockerman (cover only) and Carole Jean Bourke (interiors), "Monsters" offers a fairly ...| The Haunted Closet
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