American Scary Conversations with the Kings Queens and Jesters of Late-Night Horror TV Volume 1

<p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lon Chaney Famously Observed</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There's Nothing Funny About a Clown in the Moonlight</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lon Chaney Never Met a Horror Host</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From the Dawn of Broadcasting Horror Hosts</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Flickered on the Murky Fringes of Television.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With the release of Universal's SHOCK! Movie Package in October of 1957</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>These Graveyard Gadflies Exploded Out of the Shadows and into</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Nation's Living Rooms.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Michael Monahan and Sandy Clark spoke with the Pioneers of this Distinctly American Genre and came away with Stories that reach far beyond the Restrictive</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Frame of the TV Screen and Root themselves Deep in the Heart</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>of American History and Culture.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The place to begin when examining the horror host phenomenon is Michael Monahan's American Scary. Conversations with the Kings Queens and Jesters of Late-Night Horror TV. Monahan loves and understands the genre and his interviews including his interview with Vampira are an amazing archive of television and horror history. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- W. Scott Poole author of Vampira - Dark Goddess of Horror</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This book is an indispensible chronicle of the local ghost hosts and friendly phantoms that beckoned young and old alike into the dark ride...a séance resurrecting voices from a bygone era that still have the power to frighten and delight </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- Heath Holland Cereal at Midnight</span></p><p></p>