Any time we at Cinema Retro might feel self-congratulatory about staying in print for sixteen years, we're immediately humbled by the fact that Dick Klemensen has been publishing Little Shoppe of Horrors magazine since 1972. You read that right...1972, the same year it seemed like a good idea to re-elect Richard Nixon in the biggest landslide in American history and Marlon Brando regained his mojo as The Godfather. Since then, Dick's magazine has been the gold standard for coverage of everything and anything to do with the Hammer films horror classics. The vast majority of every issue is dedicated to Hammer and yet he never gets repetitive. Dick started to reach out to the Hammer stars, directors, producers and technicians in the early 1970s and thus acquired a priceless archive of their stories and memories during an era in which most critics didn't take the films seriously. Dick's latest issue features the wonderful Hammer version of the Sherlock Holmes classic "The Hound of the Baskerville" on the cover and the interior is chock full of informative and entertaining articles. Click here to visit Little Shoppe of Horrors site and prepare to go on a shopping spree. Remember, print media needs your support!
Here is official list of contents for the latest issue:
v The Hyman Horrors.
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Denis
Meikle examines producer Kenneth Hyman's Trio of Terror for Hammer Films -
The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Stranglers of Bombay and The Terror of the
tongs.
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v 'Behind the Scenes' on The Hound of the Baskervilles
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Peter
Cushing, Christopher Lee, Terence Fisher and many of the people involved talk
about the making of the film.
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v 'Murder Their Religion!'
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The
Making of The Stranglers of Bombay by Bruce G. Hallenbeck.
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v Murder By Hatchet!'
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The
Making of The Terror of the Tongs by Bruce G. Hallenbeck.
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v 'He Painted With Light! Jack Asher'
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A
tribute to Hammer's great Director of Photography by Emmy Award winning
cinematographer - David J. Miller & Asher's daughters & Hammer film
co-workers.
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v 'Michael
Medwin: Hammer's First Star'
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Interview
by Denis Meikle.
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v Dracula
2020 — The recent BBC/Netflix/Hartswood Film version of Bram Stoker's classic
Novel.
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Interviews
with Mark Gatiss (Writer/Producer/actor - as Renfield), Steven Moffat
(Writer/Producer), Claes Bang (Count Dracula), Dolly Wells (Sister Agatha Van
Helsing/Zoe Helsing), Cathering Schell (the Grand Duchess Valeria of
Habsburg) and Dave Elsey (with his wife Loue responsible for all the FX
makeups and effects).
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v 'The
Hammer Diaries of Christopher Wicking - 1975 - Part 2'
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Edited
by Mitchel Wicking.
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v Vampirella Live
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Jonathan
Rigby on the recent reading of Christopher Wicking's Vampirella script.
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All our regular features - Letters to LSoH - Ralph's
One-and-Only Traveling Reviews CVompany - Hammer News.
Covers
Front Cover by Mark Maddox
Back Cover by David
Robinson
Inside Front Covers by Paul
Watts & David Brooks
Inside Back Cover by
Alistair Hughes