"Wicked Wife" One Sheet

I watched "The Unholy Wife" the other night with Diana Dors and Rod Steiger. It wasn't the greatest noir, but the costuming was beautiful and of course DD looked stunning. So, having watched a noir about a femme fatale wife, I thought I'd post this one-sheet for "Wicked Wife."

Victorian Trade Card Ad for Roller Skates

Victorian Trade Card Ad for Roller Skates

Perhaps the Most Disturbing Object in My Collection...

This Victorian trade card just might be the most bizarre/disturbing/creepy item in my entire collection. It certainly wasn't the most expensive item, but it's WAY up on the creepy hierarchy. I won't write any commentary, because this truly speaks for itself. As a Trevor Brown collector, I find this piece particularly intriguing.

Godzilla-Esque Monstrosity on Vintage PB

Highly collectible vintage paperback that is a novelization of a 1957 movie of the same name. The movie looks to be high-cheese and so is this cover. Methinks this monstrosity looks vaguely like godzilla. On a personal level, I've always preferred the giant spiders. Maybe cuz they scare me more than lizards. Just my opinion, but lizards are kinda cute.

First Edition "Dwellers in the Mirage" by A. Merritt

This is a first edition (1932) in DJ of A. Merritt's "Dwellers in the Mirage." It's highly collectible for the rare art deco pulp art dust jacket, and of course, Merritt is a notable fantasy/horror author. The look is quite Egyptian and hearkens to the Egyptian Revival movement of that period.

First American Edition of Bram Stoker's "Dracula"

From our rare book collection, a first USA edition of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" from 1899 by Doubleday & McClure. It was originally published in the U.K. in 1897 by Archibald Constable & Co. but the US edition features much better art than the plain yellow covers and red text of the UK edition. Dracula's castle high on a mountain with bats flying overhead just shout vampire! The relevance and importance of this title is pretty obvious, so I won't give a big history lesson here. For that, I send you to Wikipedia.

Think the price of this has gone up with the appearance of teeny bopper vampire lovers? Eh, probably not. I didn't read THAT book, but I have seen THAT movie. Yeah, pretty much no reason to think fans of this would be fans of "Dracula" based on the movie.

"Drugged Dolls" Vintage Sleaze Paperback

I've collected vintage drug paperbacks since around 2000. I'd always wanted this one, but I never won it for the $30 it always seemed to get. Just the other day, I win a bid on eBay for $8 total. Go figure. Anyway, I always prefer cover art to photos, but this particular photo is pretty kitschy, and you can't go wrong with the title either.