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by **Thomas** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:23 pm

Anybody else remember these books with hardcovers that would focus on a single movie monster like Dracula, Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and of course Godzilla? I used to check these out of the library constantly when I was little kind in the early 80's. What were they called and who published them?

by **Legion** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:49 pm

by **briizilla** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 4:21 pm

by **Joseph Goodman** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 4:21 pm

by **The Giant Pacific Octopus** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 4:47 pm

I always loved this picture.

by **MouthForWar** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 4:51 pm

When I was in 2nd grade, I checked this book out from the library so much that my grandparents photocopied the whole book and made me my own copy, which I still have.

And how did this guy write a whole book on the Deadly Mantis?

by **king_ghidorah** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 5:04 pm

by **RaymondBurr** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:38 pm

by **metal_bryan** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:03 pm

by **MekaGojira3k** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 10:12 pm

I have The Blob, The Deadly Mantis, and Godzilla somewhere at my dad's house. I effectively just stole them from my Library. I loved those things.

by **ebirahsmeg1** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:28 am

by **MekaGojira3k** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 9:09 am

by **Thomas** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:30 am

by **Hybrid Gojira** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:19 am

by **mr.negativity** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:41 am

The Ian Thorne books were amazing.

by **The Top Crusader** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 1:18 pm

I loved that series as a kid... I ended up working at the library in 1998 or so and searched the basement of withdrawn books (because I hadn't seen them on the main floor in years) but alas I couldn't find them, or the purple ones.

I have been meaning to try to pick up those books when I have the chance... some of them go fairly cheap on ebay, but of course I REALLY want the Godzilla one and that one tends to cost more.

As has been said, a lot of the information in the book about Godzilla was wrong, but a longtime friend of mine and I were talking about those books and it occurred to us... back in the late 70's when that was written, how much information would Ian Thorne have even had access to? I'm assuming the book wasn't written in conjunction with Toho (although it did have some neat behind the scenes photos), and if that's the case his information would have been limited. Not to mention he couldn't just pop in a VHS of the films to get a better idea of what was going on, although I'd assume if he was really trying to write that series he had access to film reels or something, not just going off his memory.

Then again, as accurate as they were, maybe he WAS just going from memory.

by **Kaiju Nexus** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 2:28 pm

by **The Top Crusader** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:51 pm

by **RyanClark** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 1:35 am

by **MouthForWar** » Sun Aug 07, 2011 2:04 am

This pic was posted up at the Classic Horror and Sci Fi Movie Books Facebook page (a great page). I think this is the box they came in when libraries got them.

Anyone else see the Nintendo Nerd's video tribute to these books?

http://cinemassacre.com/2010/09/12/the- ... er-series/

Brings back a lot of memories.

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