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
See that magnificent haunted house looming at the end of a crooked path atop a foreboding mountain crag? Get a good look because you won't find it anywhere inside 3-D Comics House of Terror (1953, St. John Publishing).| The Haunted Closet
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Hot on the heels of the surprising news that Usborne Publishing's World of the Unknown: All About Ghosts book was returning to print in a facsimile edition, I am pleased to discover that Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark trilogy has been rereleased with the original Stephen Gammell artwork restored!| 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
Back in fifth grade (1983), I had a wealthy friend I'll call| The Haunted Closet
Let's us sample those delights too! | 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
The year I began fourth grade, I found myself unwittingly entangled in the horrific drama of the Monticello Clown Puppet Murders of 1980. This was a side-effect of two big changes happening to me that year.| The Haunted Closet
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The Haunted Closet blog started with a book... Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures, and over the years several of my favoriteout-of-print-good-luck-finding-a-copy-on-Ebay selections have since followed. | The Haunted Closet
1985 was a long, long time ago...| The Haunted Closet
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
My name is Brother Bill and I am a Simpsons fan. | The Haunted Closet
Back in the olden days before Internet social media profiles and emoji voting buttons, if kids wanted to document and share their likes and dislikes within their circle of friends, they had to get a little creative.| The Haunted Closet
When Thundarr the Barbarian finally made landfall on the shores of the 1980 Saturday morning cartoon lineup, the accompanying shockwave upturned the nation's cereal bowls.| The Haunted Closet
Videogames were an important facet of my life back in the early 1980s (I was in grade school), and between my network of friends, I had access to all the major home systems of the day. Friend #1 had the Atari 2600 (1977), the old, reliable workhorse, a system so popular and ubiquitous that its joystick controller became a de facto symbol of the gaming industry itself. | The Haunted Closet
There are two words that distinguished NBC's Amazing Stories from the other sci-fi/fantasy anthology TV series that arrived in the mid-1980s (titles like The (New) Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Ray Bradbury Theater), and those two words are:| The Haunted Closet
What started out as a little retro-review of obscure 80s horror film "Anguish" turned into a longish piece on the history of subliminal messaging as horror film gimmick. Read all about it at We Are The Mutants...| 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
