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| TERROR |
"NOW YOU CAN HEAR THESE TERROR-TALES"
These four "12" LP Records, all 33 RPM" were advertised in the back of monster magazines (Famous Monsters of Filmland, Mad Monsters, Horror Monsters, etc) throughout the sixties, and fascinated me for their visual starkness, as well as their bare-boned titles ("TERROR", "HORROR", etc), although my brothers and I never took the step of actually ordering them. Good thing! Turns out that the four albums ( "*Narrated by Richard Taylor", reading Poe stories) were a clear cut case of false advertising. The unsuspecting kids who were duped into ordering them (from "Victor Specialties" of Conn) received not the four advertised covers, but blank covers stamped with the titles (where the Beatles got the idea?). No matter, I still love theses LP con job ads:
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| HORROR |
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| NIGHTMARE |
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FRIGHT (the house of)
Original ad featured in the back of dozens of cheap 60's monster magazines. |
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| About The Narrator, the "Crown Prince of Terror" |
You can learn more about the history of the records, and listen to the actual records via this blog: SCAR STUFF...
/scarstuff.blogspot.com/2007/10/richard-taylor-nightmare-horror-terror.html
I can't decide if they're horrible or terrible, but they're great!
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