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Forrest J Ackerman Portrait 1
Here’s the article I wrote for Bizarre Magazine:
Back in the age of chrome, goggle-eyed lovers of werewolves, mummies and monsters were a disparate, lonely and voiceless community of movie geeks. Without videotapes, computers or easy access to any film archive, resources about their favourite creature-features or Boris Karloff frighteners were extremely limited. Lovers of fantastic film were forced to make scrapbooks and write lists, treasuring every frame of each movie release at their local picture palace or fuzzy midnight television screening introduced by Vampira.
But everything changed in 1958 when a magazine called Famous Monsters Of Filmland was launched as a one-off special. Like an angry mob of villagers from a Universal horror, kids across America attacked newsstands for the first ever chance read about their favourite subject matter, uniting together a group of monster-loving misfits and inspiring a generation of future filmmakers and writers. A second printing followed to fulfill eager chubby children’s demands for more thrilling chills and the magazine quickly flourished into a monthly form.
Deep in the bloody heart of Horrorwood, Karloffornia we find its creator Forrest J. Ackerman, also known as Dr. Acula, Mr. Science Fiction or just plain Uncle Forry to his many famous friends and devotees, a man regarded as the world’s number one fan of fantastic film. So successful was his landmark release, he wrote and edited Famous Monsters for over two decades, its influence spawning spin-offs at Warren Publishing such as Monster World, Famous Westerns Of Filmland, Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella (the sexy vampire from outer space, also created by Ackerman). A whole new wave of writing for monster movie fans had been unleashed.
“I sat with an old mechanical typewriter for twenty-hours a day working on the first issue,” explains Forry, celebrating his ninetieth birthday this year. “The publisher sent across an imaginary sign saying, ‘I am eleven and a half years old and I am your reader. Forrest Ackerman make me laugh.’”
As a consequence, every single edition was filled with delightfully goofy puns that made gory guys and ghouls laugh all the way to the morgue. The magazine was dripping with salivating monster interviews, terror-ific articles on retrospective and contemporary genre flicks, creepy comic strip adaptations of classic movies, petrifying picture galleries, a popular letters page called ‘Fang Mail’ and regulars like ‘You Axed For It’ where readers could request certain photos to appear and ask all sorts of questions to Forry.
Ackerman was the ideal choice for New York publisher James Warren to helm the monster mag. Forry had literally lived in the vicinity of the Hollywood ‘nightmare’ factory all of his life, not only amassing a huge knowledge of these films but also his fanatic enthusiasm saw sympathetic studio workers donating film stills previously destined for the dustbin, while establishing good relationships with many of the stars of the day.
Forget Harry Knowles or his entourage of techno nerds, Forrest J. Ackerman was the original super-fan. In 1954, Forry even coined the phrase “sci-fi”, now found in every modern dictionary. The flash of inspiration came one day while driving with his wife, when he heard some mention of ‘hi-fi’ on the radio.
“Since science fiction had been on the tip of my tongue ever since 1929, I looked in the rear view mirror, stuck out my tongue and there tattooed on the end was sci-fi,” he recalls excitedly, his eyes squinting with delight as he begins a trip down memory lane. “To her immortal embarrassment my dear wife said, ‘forget it Forry, it will never catch on.’”
The kindly Mr. Ackerman has managed to acquire an astounding 300,000 science-fiction items, including those rare photographs (he had over 35,000 tempting terrors to offer the publisher when Famous Monsters was first published), props, books, artwork and memorabilia, a collection the Smithsonian once described as “one of the ten best private collections in the country.” Originally, it was all housed in the ‘Ackermansion’, an astounding 18-room giant cavern, cram-packed with all things fantastic including stop-motion models from King Kong, a signed first edition of Dracula and even a Martian spacecraft from War Of The Worlds.
But fangs aint what they used to be though for Forry. After an extensive legal battle in the US courts and a serious life-threatening illness, he very sadly had to strip down his collection to pay for all the expensive medical and legal costs. But with such marvelous items still surviving, Forry still gives tours around his downsized bungalow, which has been dubbed the ‘mini-Ackermansion’. There are still plenty of horrific delights to behold in the bastard offspring and a treasure trove of golden tales to entr
Forrest J Ackerman Portrait 5
The creator of Famous Monster of Filmland, who coined the term ‘sci-fi’, here poses (aged 89), sporting one of Bela Lugosi’s capes and the original Dracula ring.
Here’s the article I wrote for Bizarre Magazine:
Back in the age of chrome, goggle-eyed lovers of werewolves, mummies and monsters were a disparate, lonely and voiceless community of movie geeks. Without videotapes, computers or easy access to any film archive, resources about their favourite creature-features or Boris Karloff frighteners were extremely limited. Lovers of fantastic film were forced to make scrapbooks and write lists, treasuring every frame of each movie release at their local picture palace or fuzzy midnight television screening introduced by Vampira.
But everything changed in 1958 when a magazine called Famous Monsters Of Filmland was launched as a one-off special. Like an angry mob of villagers from a Universal horror, kids across America attacked newsstands for the first ever chance read about their favourite subject matter, uniting together a group of monster-loving misfits and inspiring a generation of future filmmakers and writers. A second printing followed to fulfill eager chubby children’s demands for more thrilling chills and the magazine quickly flourished into a monthly form.
Deep in the bloody heart of Horrorwood, Karloffornia we find its creator Forrest J. Ackerman, also known as Dr. Acula, Mr. Science Fiction or just plain Uncle Forry to his many famous friends and devotees, a man regarded as the world’s number one fan of fantastic film. So successful was his landmark release, he wrote and edited Famous Monsters for over two decades, its influence spawning spin-offs at Warren Publishing such as Monster World, Famous Westerns Of Filmland, Creepy, Eerie and Vampirella (the sexy vampire from outer space, also created by Ackerman). A whole new wave of writing for monster movie fans had been unleashed.
“I sat with an old mechanical typewriter for twenty-hours a day working on the first issue,” explains Forry, celebrating his ninetieth birthday this year. “The publisher sent across an imaginary sign saying, ‘I am eleven and a half years old and I am your reader. Forrest Ackerman make me laugh.’”
As a consequence, every single edition was filled with delightfully goofy puns that made gory guys and ghouls laugh all the way to the morgue. The magazine was dripping with salivating monster interviews, terror-ific articles on retrospective and contemporary genre flicks, creepy comic strip adaptations of classic movies, petrifying picture galleries, a popular letters page called ‘Fang Mail’ and regulars like ‘You Axed For It’ where readers could request certain photos to appear and ask all sorts of questions to Forry.
Ackerman was the ideal choice for New York publisher James Warren to helm the monster mag. Forry had literally lived in the vicinity of the Hollywood ‘nightmare’ factory all of his life, not only amassing a huge knowledge of these films but also his fanatic enthusiasm saw sympathetic studio workers donating film stills previously destined for the dustbin, while establishing good relationships with many of the stars of the day.
Forget Harry Knowles or his entourage of techno nerds, Forrest J. Ackerman was the original super-fan. In 1954, Forry even coined the phrase “sci-fi”, now found in every modern dictionary. The flash of inspiration came one day while driving with his wife, when he heard some mention of ‘hi-fi’ on the radio.
“Since science fiction had been on the tip of my tongue ever since 1929, I looked in the rear view mirror, stuck out my tongue and there tattooed on the end was sci-fi,” he recalls excitedly, his eyes squinting with delight as he begins a trip down memory lane. “To her immortal embarrassment my dear wife said, ‘forget it Forry, it will never catch on.’”
The kindly Mr. Ackerman has managed to acquire an astounding 300,000 science-fiction items, including those rare photographs (he had over 35,000 tempting terrors to offer the publisher when Famous Monsters was first published), props, books, artwork and memorabilia, a collection the Smithsonian once described as “one of the ten best private collections in the country.” Originally, it was all housed in the ‘Ackermansion’, an astounding 18-room giant cavern, cram-packed with all things fantastic including stop-motion models from King Kong, a signed first edition of Dracula and even a Martian spacecraft from War Of The Worlds.
But fangs aint what they used to be though for Forry. After an extensive legal battle in the US courts and a serious life-threatening illness, he very sadly had to strip down his collection to pay for all the expensive medical and legal costs. But with such marvelous items still surviving, Forry still gives tours around his downsized bungalow, which has been dubbed the ‘mini-Ackermansion’. There are still plenty of horrific delights
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