The Monster Club

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a dark and dreadful establishment known as The Monster Club where vampires indulge in a rather different kind of Bloody Mary and ghouls tear into their gruesome repasts. Here along with the usual monsters - vampires werewolves ghouls and some of Dr Frankensteins more freakish creations - youll find other less familiar ones. Youll meet the frightening Fly-by-Night the hideous shaddy the horrible mock and the dreaded shadmock perhaps the most terrible of all. When Donald McCloud offers a starving man a meal he unexpectedly discovers that the man is a vampire - and hes the main course! Accompanying the vampire Eramus to The Monster Club Donald encounters a whole host of strange monsters who in a series of five linked stories recount to Donald their monstrous exploits. But as Donald is regaled with these tales of monsters and their unfortunate human victims it gradually dawns on him that as the only human in a club full of bloodthirsty monsters he might be in a bit of a predicament. . . . First published as a paperback original in 1976 R. Chetwynd-Hayess The Monster Club was adapted for a 1981 film starring Vincent Price John Carradine and Donald Pleasence and both book and film have gone on to become cult classics. Told in a wry tongue-in-cheek style the tales in The Monster Club are simultaneously horrific comical and curiously moving. This edition is the first in more than twenty years and features a new introduction by Stephen Jones and a reproduction of John Boltons painting from the comic book adaptation of the film.