Thursday, April 12, 2007

'MONSTERBACK' books

Of all the books on
monsters, ghosts,etc that are aimed at children, this set of books are certainly the best I have seen, not only do they have fantastic covers, but the stuff inside is just as impressive. I bought these from a shop called 'The book cellar', before it became 'The Works' back in the early 80's. The Monsterback series of books was first published in 1980 by Marshall Cavendish. The books covered a broad range of topics such as stories, frightening facts, games, projects etc. Illustrated throughout with fantastic artwork and photographs. Examples of the contents include: For the Vampires book - What is a vampire?, Curse of the undead, Vlad the Impaler, Make a Dracula's castle, The Croglin Vampire, How to tell a vampire, The film Dracula, what is blood, etc. MONSTER OR MAN? book - The Minotaur, Fiends and Fairies, The Gorgons, King Kong, Make a monster mask, The film monster, The Red death, Frakenstein's monster, etc. WEREWOLVES AND OTHER WEIRD CREATURES book - Legend of the werewolf, Wolfman, Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, Werewolf in film, Island of Dr.Moreau, Loup-Garou, Invisible man, Wolf boys, Wolves everywhere, etc. GHOSTS, GHOULS AND SPIRITS book - What is a ghost?, Things that go bump in the night, Film ghosts, The Brown lady, Sea ghosts, Ghosts of the Tower of London, Church ghosts, Canterville ghost, Theatre ghosts, etc.
These four books are certainly worth checking out, keep a look out for them, I am sure you will be able to get them at a reasonable price. A light, ghoulish read.



2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi there.
I think this is the book I looked at when I was around 7-8 years old in the 80s. I don't recall much but for sure the illustrations and pictures were very impressive.

I guess it's hard to find it now at the old bookstores. Is it possible if you can snap shot some of the content of this book? Just for my viewing pleasure as I know it's impossible to obtain a copy of it.

Thank you so much and you're one lucky person to have this book!

Warmest regards,
Calvin from Malaysia
calpkooi@yahoo.com

Unknown said...

Where can I buy these books...ive searched everywhere