Scary Monsters Magazine - The Real Monster Magazine
Official Scary Monsters Magazine page. Website: scarymonstersmagazine.com Smeraldi, Editor, and Vicki (Piazza) Smeraldi, Designer.
Scary Monsters, The REAL Monster Magazine, is published by MyMovieMonsters.com husband and wife team: Don A.
01/12/2025
“We Belong….ALIVE!” Sam Scare invited Valentina from Castle of Frankenstein magazine over to celebrate issue #138 of Scary Monsters magazine! Scary Monsters #138 hits the stands in March and is all about “Fantastic Forgotten Frankenstein Films”!! This issue also puts the scary spotlight on classic but lesser-known monster, sci-fi, and fantasy film adaptations of Mary Shelley’s influential 1818 Gothic novel “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus.” Go to www.mymoviemonsters.com today to pre-order a copy!
01/09/2025
Scary Monsters 138th “Fantastic Forgotten Frankenstein Films” Issue is our annual Monster Memories edition featuring nostalgic Monster Kid recollections from our readers. This issue also puts the scary spotlight on classic but lesser-known monster, sci-fi, and fantasy film adaptations of Mary Shelley’s influential 1818 Gothic novel “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus.” Plus, popular columns Trilogy of Terror, Kaiju Korner, Strange Days, and comic strip Roomies from the Tomb on 128 square-bound retro “pulp” pages loaded with photos. COMING mid-to-late March 2025. Reserve your copy now through Diamond Comics DEC241718 or get your copy direct from us: https://www.mymoviemonsters.com/store.php/mymoviemonsters/pd10851452/scary-monsters-138-fantastic-forgotten-frankenstein-films-preorder
HAPPY NEW SCARE: Readers and contributors respond to issue #137 ... instead of crickets we'd like to hear your thoughts on the latest issue in the comments below, your response just may appear in the letters section of an upcoming issue of Scary Monsters ...
"I went to my local public library yesterday and brought along SM so I could read it without being disturbed. Great stuff, so far! Love the cover (really, has there ever been one Scott hasn't knocked out of the park?), and the first article I read brought a smile to my face: Attack of the 50 ft. Woman. I can actually remember seeing this at the movies in 1958, thanks to my older sister, Suzanne (known as "The Scary Movie Girl"). I could never figure out how she grew so huge in a bedroom and home designed for normal sized humans. When we'd see her walking, she's wearing bedsheets that would probably fit King Kong's bed, and her booming voice calling for "Harry" was about as horrifying as it got. Fl**zy Yvette Vickers finds out it's not nice to steal the husband of a 50 foot woman, especially if his name happens to be Harry! In the end, a handy-dandy power line comes into play, and Harry turns from being a doll to being a real man. Yvette just shows up squished.
Next, I read about Bert I. Gordon, affectionately known as "Mr. BIG." I'll say it here and now, I never liked his movies. They either had to do with giant "monsters" or shrunken people, and the effects leave much to be desired. His most famous film is undoubtedly "The Amazing Colossal Man," followed by its sequel, "War of the Colossal Beast." Again, we have half-naked "monsters" running around in sheets. Sometimes, we can see through them (the monsters, not the sheets), and mostly, they have a line around the actors (poor process work). If your idea of "horror" is a 50 foot bald man with a dad bod, this is it. Lots of stomping, lots of magnified yelling, even a stroll down the Vegas strip. Its sequel has the Colossal Man sporting injuries to his face from a fall. Here the make-up actually looks good. Likewise, Mr. Big's make-up fx in The Cyclops is good, too. Really quite innovative for its time. Then there's Attack of the Puppet People. For one, they don't attack. For another, they're not even puppet people! At least they're not wearing sheets!"
12/22/2024
The subscriber mailing is complete! Everyone should be receiving their copy of 137 just in time for Christmas!
12/16/2024
Scary Sam's Santa helpers are busy bagging and boarding copies of issue #137 for all the good little boils and ghouls, and maybe with a little help from Gorgo and the postal Gremlins you'll get it in time for the Horror Daze!
12/06/2024
Appearing on the back cover of issue #137, this AMAZING Colossal painting by Jeff Farley!
12/06/2024
Getting ready to make a New Years resolution, I'm shooting for 10%
BECAUSE YOU AXED FOR IT! In tribute to the releases of Scary Monsters #133, #134, and #136, we're offering one-time-only limited edition "Artist Proof" posters DIRECT from cover artist Scott Jackson.
Only 25 of each vibrant version are being offered. Each edition is a large 16" x 20" format on museum quality archival poster stock.
Printed by the artist, these are signed and numbered artist proofs which will surely be a welcome addition to any horror collection, dungeon, or mad laboratory.
Scary Monsters #137 is BIG…really BIG! It’s the “Mammoth to Miniature” issue!! For starters, we kick things off with two of the biggest names in monster history…Gorgo and King Kong from 1976. How’s that for big? We follow that up with other Tinseltown titans like Attack of the Crab Monsters, Killer Crocodile, Alligator, Frankenstein Conquers the World, The Amazing Colossal Man, The Cyclops, The Black Scorpion, Empire of the Ants, and much, much more! Then we shift gears and size to spotlight those little troublemakers…the Gremlins! But wait…there’s MORE miniscule monsters and tiny terrors including The Devil-Doll, Attack of the Puppet People, Dr. Cyclops, and Grizzly! Plus, popular columns Trilogy of Terror, Kaiju Korner, Strange Days, and the comic strip Roomies from the Tomb. So, after you finish rampaging through the city with your favorite gal (or ghoul), stomp on over to the nearest laptop and pre-order your copy of Scary Monsters #137 at www.mymoviemonsters.com!
11/07/2024
For those who order Scary Monsters at your local comic shop through Diamond Comics!
Our Scary Monsters "Mammoth to Miniature Movie Monsters" issue puts the scary spotlight on classic monster, sci-fi, and fantasy films featuring humans and creatures big and small that haunted Monster Kids' nightmares and daydreams in the 1950s and '60s and still thrill us today - sometimes with prac...
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NOW IN ITS 29th YEAR!: Scary Monsters, The REAL Monster Magazine, is published by MyMovieMonsters.com’s husband and wife team and monster kids, Don (Editor) and Vicki (Art Director and Designer) Smeraldi.
Scary Monsters is the only real “all classic, all the time” movie monster magazine — like ones published in the ’50s and ’60s — featuring colorful wraparound cover art and 144-plus jam-packed pulp pages. The terrifyingly fun and informative content includes in-depth articles and interviews, dozens of photos celebrating classic horror/sci-fi films of yesteryear, plus a fangtastic catalog of scary stuff in the back pages for you to order by mail just like when you were a kid!
Revitalized in 2016 with this new publishing team and updated, professional design, regular features include Trilogy of Terror, Kaiju Korner, Dr. Gangrene’s Mad Interviews, Strange Days, Dry Ice & Cobwebs, new Blu-ray/DVD releases, and much more!
Widely distributed at Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, comic shops and newsstands across the USA and UK, as well as Chapters/Indigo stores in Canada. Not in your town? Subscribe by mail (write for details to Scary Monsters, PO Box 567, Wildomar, CA 92595 or email [email protected]) or online at ScaryMonstersMagazine.com.
We also publish a Monster Memories edition of Scary Monsters. It’s an annual publication issued every February, featuring nostalgic, personal monster memories from celebrities and readers from around the globe, plus other special treats every Monster Kid loves.
WANTED: Monster Kids of all ages, from every city, town and solar system are invited to submit to us their monster memories of favorite films, creatures, and monster makers of the silver screen. Write [email protected] for instructions.
We are really blessed to have a great team of contributors who volunteer their talents to help make the magazine what it is. Many have stayed on with us since we took over. We also are thrilled to have Scott Jackson crafting each cover. He just keeps outdoing himself each time! Of course, the biggest hurdle is the cost of printing and distribution. We’re always looking for ways to save on those costs. Our readers have done a great job supporting us by subscribing and ordering from the “Scary Stuff” catalog section that’s in the back of each issue. One way to support us even further is to consider buying one copy of each issue to read and one copy to put away, which many collectors already do. Another is to share those reader copies with children and grandchildren — if you can get them to put down their handheld device for a little while! It’s no secret that the fan base is dwindling because most of the movie stars (even child actors back in the day) and caretakers like Forry Ackerman and many others have passed on. But that doesn’t mean we can’t continue to celebrate the classic films and the movie makers and stars for generations to come — and we hope to be a part of that for a long time!
Back in the late 1990s Don began buying new VHS tapes promoted via email of classic horror and sci-fi movies he remembered enjoying as a kid. It became a hobby and then, by 1999, a business. MyMovieMonsters.com initially offered classic horror and sci-fi VHS tapes then transitioned to DVDs. Over the years we’ve focused more on monster magazines (both domestic and international), comic archives, books, action figures of all sizes (mostly monsters and sci-fi creatures but some superheroes), model kits, collector cards, bobble heads, and more. We have a vast selection of Godzilla figures, bust coin banks (both monsters
and superheroes) and Sideshow classic monsters that are either brand-new and purchased by us or pre-owned but their display boxes have not been opened. We always try to have the latest classic horror and sci-fi magazines and model kits in stock. Other retailers tend to emphasize pre-orders and make their customers wait sometimes months for product. We only do that for the most current issue of our magazines. Anyone can register on our website to receive email updates on new product — and unlike others we don’t spam you and only send an occasional message when new items warrant it.
In terms of what attracted us to the scary publishing world, Vicki and Don had worked together years ago at U.S. Postal Service Headquarters designing and editing/writing (respectively) national publications. Since we also ran MyMovieMonsters.com and Don was planning retirement, taking on Scary Monsters was a natural. It really was a dream come true … a bucket from Don’s wish list he thought he’d never have a chance to fill.
