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

<p></p><p>Lon Chaney Famously Observed</p><p>"There's Nothing Funny About a Clown in the Moonlight"</p><p>Lon Chaney Never Met a Horror Host</p><p></p><p>From the Dawn of Broadcasting, Horror Hosts</p><p>Flickered on the Murky Fringes of Television.</p><p>With the release of Universal's SHOCK! Movie Package in October of 1957, </p><p>These Graveyard Gadflies Exploded Out of the Shadows and into</p><p>The Nation's Living Rooms.</p><p></p><p>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</p><p>Frame of the TV Screen, and Root themselves Deep in the Heart</p><p>of American History and Culture.</p><p></p><p>"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." </p><p>- W. Scott Poole, author of Vampira - Dark Goddess of Horror</p><p></p><p>"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" </p><p>- Heath Holland, Cereal at Midnight</p><p></p>

• American Scary Conversations with the Kings, Queens and Jesters of Late-Night Horror TV Volume 1, (Paperback)
• Author: BearManor Media
• ISBN: 9798887718002
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2025-07-23
• Page Count: 368