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As Ive said, Im spending this year indulging mostly in nostalgia, recuperating from the terrible events of 2010. In moving some books in storage, I came across my copy of this. My copy has no covers, the pages are barely held together by the strip of exposed glue on the binding. The title page is hanging by a thread and is stained. All the pages are dog-eared and curled. Why all this damage? Because I carried it everywhere. I read it in the bath, in the pool, on vacations, during meals, I looked at it over and over and over again. I know every single page by heart. This, my friends, is the granddaddy of them all - this is, hands down, my favorite book from childhood and the most important book of my young life.The oldest memory I have of it is that it was bought in the book section of a department store. I was probably around 8 years old, so 1975 seems likely. I dont recognize the sleeve image shown here, so it likely did not have a sleeve or my edition was sold without one. It was not bought used, I know for sure, because this was one of those perfect moments of childhood - youre in a boring store and suddenly you find something that looks like the GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD but theres no way your parents will buy it for you - its a new book, way too expensive. And yet they did. God bless them, Mom or Dad, they did...I remember, when the book HAD a cover, they were stiff board covers, red in color. I always referred to it as the Red Book. This book is choc-a-bloc with pictures from a full range of horror movies - stills, promotional shots, lobby cards, posters. ALL kinds of horror films (it is a history, after all) - silents, Universals, Monogram programmers, early Brits and Hammers, indie films, Japanese movies from Toho, German films, on and on. The text is amazingly informative and this was probably the first reference book I ever owned, the first book that taught me what a reference book was and what it was for (I distinctly recall that this is the book wherein I figured out what indexes and bibliographies were and how they worked) - realizing over the years that there was just goldmines of information to be gleaned from the text as I moved from reading the obvious sections I cared about (Godzilla and giant monster movies) into the parts that seemed boring when younger, but took on greater significance as I grew older and my tastes broadened and deepened. And that broadening and deepening was in part BECAUSE of this books existence.This is not a childrens book. There are some very spooky pictures, some disturbing, some bloody (some funny, as well). There are flashes of nudity from Hammer films. Every picture in this book is near talismanic to me. I can distinctly remember sitting with my Mother on the front porch, obsessively paging through it and showing her certain pictures and she suddenly asked me if I ever got scared looking at things like this (she would ask me the same questions years later after she heard me listening to a cassette recording I had made of an TWILIGHT ZONE episode the night before). And I was dumbfounded by the question. Of course I did, I thought, wasnt that the point? But heres the thing, when youre a kid (or at least when I was a kid, with nascent anxiety problems still getting ready to unfold) the world is a terrifying place. Watching scary films allowed me to control that terror. Having a book like this to look at allowed me to control that terror as well. There were some pictures in this book that were so scary that I couldnt actually look at them... until I *could*, finally, look at them. Other pictures implied scariness without actually being obviously scary, and so I had to try to figure out why there were in the book. Special effects and makeup were on grand display, to be examined thoroughly. This book, the Red Book, was like an entire run of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND condensed into one package and missing the corny jokes. This book and Fantastic Television were the two seminal books of my youth.So thank you, Mr. Gilford, wherever you are. You are one of the primary reasons that I am who I am.And, oh, to be 11 years old again - sitting in the shade on a cool concrete stoop, with the entire world buzzing around you on a summer afternoon, the future yet to unfurl, waiting until DR. SHOCK came on in a hour or so and you could see what this weeks movie was (ROBOT VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY, according to your much-examined TV guide - if the clunky UHF antenna could pick up the signal from Philadelphia through the haze), ice cream sandwich in one grubby mitt, a newly purchased copy of a HOUSE OF MYSTERY comic book waiting by your side, and the Red Book open on your lap, daring you to finally look at that photo from The Phantom of Soho full in the face and not.. be... scared...[EDIT] - and how strange, the memory, to closely examine this tattered document and to *NOT* see some pictures I distinctly remember. And to suddenly wonder if I had *two* books, which I have conflated in my memory. I think this may be so. I see no glimpses of Hammer nudity here, no horrifying picture from THE BLIND DEAD, no shots from the British TALES FROM THE CRYPT. And so another book must await me in storage, I hope. I hope.
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