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horror tv
vampires
Product details
- ISBN 9780786409402
- Weight: 345g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2000
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Midnight, 1954. A striking woman in a torn black dress slinks down a cobwebbed, candelabra'd corridor. She stops, shrieks hysterically into the camera, then solemnly says, "Good evening, I am Vampira."
Her real name is Maila Nurmi and she was the first in a long line of television horror movie hosts, commonly seen on independent stations' late-night "grade Z" offerings dressed as some zany ghoul or mad scientist.
This book covers the major hosts in detail, along with styles and show themes. Merchandise tie-in and fan reactions are also chronicled. The appendices list film and record credits.
The late Elena M. Watson was an editor for the National Capital Area Skeptical Eye.
