Television Horror Movie Hosts

<p> 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.</p><p> 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.</p><p> 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.</p>