This week’s Horror Roundtable is about horror stuff we’ve forgotten the names of but remember enjoying. Mine are all books from my youth, and by the look of it ol’ Horror Blog Steven has at least one of the answers I seek.
I had so many of these forgotten horror touchstones on my mind that I didn’t even bother talking about the unbelievably awesome classic-monsters activity book I had, but I wish I could track down a copy of that thing too. There was one activity where you had to match the monster to its weakness. It was SO RAD. I feel like I did every activity twelve times, or maybe I just studied them once I completed them.
Related: This “Science Over the Edge” page at a site called The Un-Museum that I came across just so happens to contain information on two of my young self’s favorite scary “true” stories: the disappearance of David Lang (from a book whose title I can’t remember, which I mention in the roundtable) and the Berkeley Square Horror (from Daniel J. Cohen’s The World’s Most Famous Ghosts). The best thing about the latter was that it combined the usual apparition and poltergeist stuff with the possibility of some sort of monster/demon thing, that I think might have come up from the sewers, and had the awesome tagline that anyone who spent the night in the haunted room either died or went mad. Try to imagine how awesome that would sound to a second-grader.