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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Dig Site Dispatch: Early Recon on Halloween Masks, Etc.

Not long until Halloween.

While the best time to shop for masks, costumes, and decorations is probably November 1st onward, let's do a sneak peek at what is out there on Ebay. 

With an eye to stocking your collection, appointing your Horror Host set, or just dominating the Neighborhood Halloween Decor for 2026.

Fair Use Image of Jack Pierce in Action

Here are some “raw pull” Halloween masks. 

A pull is what artists call the latex (or silicone) casting that’s pulled out of the mold.

The mask is in its earliest, unfinished state.

The finishing process usually includes trimming the flashing, washing and curing, painting (airbrush, hand‑brush, washes, dry‑brushing), adding gloss or matte sealers, installing hair, teeth, or eyes adding straps or padding and final distressing or aging.

Raw pulls are opportunities to channel your inner Jack Pierce or Rick Baker.


Makeup Packages


24 Pcs Neon Face Paint Crayons - UV Glow Body Makeup Kit for Halloween & Parties

Face Paint Kit – Non-Toxic & Hypoallergenic – Professional Face Painting Kit for

Halloween Makeup Kit Pro SFX Makeup Kit Special Effect Makeup Kit for Kids Adult

Modeling Wax 

Synthetic modeling wax is used to build, block out, shape, or modify facial features for Halloween masks, prosthetics, and special‑effects makeup.

It’s a pliable, non‑skin‑irritating sculpting wax formulated for direct application to the face or to a mask surface. Unlike traditional sculpting waxes (which can be brittle, oily, or temperature‑sensitive), synthetic modeling wax is engineered to hold detail, resist cracking, blend smoothly, and stay put under heat from lights or body temperature.

It’s used in Halloween mask work to block out or alter facial features.

Artists use it to temporarily reshape brows, cheekbones, noses, chins, knuckles or bone ridges, monster brows, snouts, or exaggerated wrinkles.

It’s the fastest way to “grow” a new face.

You can create small prosthetic details.

Synthetic wax is perfect for scars, warts, boils, raised veins, torn flesh edges, or subtle texture work. These details can be sealed and painted directly on the mask or on skin.

You can smooth transitions.

When you’re blending a latex appliance into skin or into a raw pull mask, wax can feather the edge so it disappears under paint.

You can test shapes before committing to latex or silicone.

Mask makers often use wax to prototype brow shapes, cheek structures, nose extensions, or creature contours. Once the shape works, they sculpt it properly in clay for molding.

You can repair or modify existing masks.

Wax can fill dents, cracks, uneven seams, or small tears. It’s not a permanent fix, but it’s a reliable temporary one.

Why synthetic wax instead of traditional sculpting wax?

Because it adheres better, blends more cleanly, doesn’t melt as easily, accepts paint and sealers, is safer for skin contact, and it is easier to remove without damaging the underlying mask.

It’s the workhorse of quick prosthetic shaping.

Mehron SynWax Synthetic Modeling Wax 1.5oz SFX Theatrical Makeup - New

GRAFTOBIAN MODELING WAX_SPECIAL EFFECTS STAGE THEATRICAL MAKEUP_1OZ PICK ANY 1

GRAFTOBIAN LIQUID LATEX 2OZ CLEAR&MODELING WAX 1OZ LIGHT FLASH SPFX MAKEUP -SET

Fake Beards, Mustaches, Wigs

Self-Adhesive Fake Mustache & Beard - Gray & White Novelty Costume Accessory

Realistic Stick-On Fake Mustache Beard, Salt & Pepper

Men's Animated Mythical Death God Wig,12" Flame Style Spiky Blue Wig,HM-1445

Lawn Ornamentation

Halloween Scary Outdoor Decorations 6 Corrugated Yard Stake Signs For Lawn Joyin

Lighted Mummy Hands Halloween Yard Stakes LED Outdoor Lawn Graveyard Decor Set

8 Pcs Halloween Yard Signs - Vintage Lawn Decorations, Black Cat, Pumpkin, Witch

Self Help Videos

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Dig Site Dispatch: John Carradine Week

A Visitation to the Carradine Corpus

John Carradine Public Domain Image

Long before he became the cosmic voice of mid‑century sci‑fi or the skeletal menace of Poverty Row horror, legend has it John Carradine was a presence on the street: a tall, ascetic silhouette in a cape, reciting Shakespeare to the indifferent traffic of Hollywood Boulevard.

Shakespeare recitations are a mnemonic device for many Actors. It could have been Carradine sharpened his memory with this ritual. 

How Hard Did Carradine work?

The Most Prolific Horror Actor in Film History

Carradine’s filmography is staggering—"351 film and television credits, making him one of the most prolific English‑language actors in history."  

Across Universal classics, Poverty Row quickies, TV horror, and late‑period microbudget films, Carradine amassed approximately 70 horror film credits, placing him at the top of documented genre output.

Carradine’s willingness to appear in ultra‑low‑budget films created a template for later genre icons (e.g., Christopher Lee, Barbara Crampton, Lance Henriksen): the idea that a performer can oscillate between prestige and pulp without losing artistic identity. 

Below is the comparative landscape.

🕯️ The Horror Actor Leaderboard

A curated snapshot of the genre’s most prolific performers.

🥇 John Carradine — ~70 Horror Films

The undisputed titan. His gaunt silhouette and Shakespearean cadence appear across more horror decades, studios, and production tiers than any other actor.

🥈 Christopher Lee — 60+ Horror Films

Hammer’s Gothic monarch. Dracula, Fu Manchu, and a constellation of occult villains.

🥉 Vincent Price — ~50 Horror Films

The velvet-voiced aesthete. From Poe adaptations to psychological horror, Price defined mid‑century dread.

Lon Chaney Jr. — 30+ Horror Films

Universal’s tragic monster man. Wolf Man, Frankenstein’s Monster, Kharis the Mummy.

Bela Lugosi — ~30 Horror Films

The iconic origin point. His Dracula remains the genre’s primal silhouette.

Linnea Quigley — nearly 40 Horror Films

The modern scream queen. A late‑20th‑century explosion of cult and splatter roles.

Brad Dourif — almost 30 Horror Films

The voice of Chucky and a master of possession‑era horror.

🩻 Why Carradine Stands Alone

Carradine’s record isn’t just about quantity — it’s about range:

  • Universal prestige horror

  • Poverty Row quick-turn productions

  • 1970s occult thrillers

  • 1980s microbudget sci-fi/horror hybrids

  • Television horror anthologies

  • Public domain curiosities that refuse to die

He is the genre’s connective tissue — a wandering relic who appears wherever horror needed a voice, a silhouette, or a presence.

This week, we descend into the Ebay crypt to dig for artifacts from that prodigious spirit.

Field Report: Excavations from the Carradine Stratum

Original Movie Still Press Photo John Carradine in Waterfront 1935 T069

HOLLYWOOD John Carradine ACTOR STUNNING VINTAGE ORIGINAL MOVIE PHOTO

John Carradine BW 8x10 Glossy Photo

John Carradine SIGNED BAH HUMBUG! Theater Flyer JSA LOA Charles Dickens Dracula [Carradine played Scrooge for the California Performing Arts Centre for Children]

John Carradine as Dracula 1944 House of Frankenstein 8 x 10 Autographed Picture

The Cosmic Man (1959) - VINTAGE "11x14 " Lobby Card #6 John Carradine

THE COSMIC MAN 1959 Original Vintage Lobby Card w/John Carradine & Angela Greene

Bluebeard (Blu-ray ~ 80th Anniversary Edition) [1944] John Carradine

1944 Bluebeard Original 11x14” Lobby Card John Carradine Jean Parker

Bluebeard Original Lobby Card John Carradine Jean Parker Teala Loring 1944

John CARRADINE THE WIZARD OF MARS movie poster SPACE-AGE shock show 20x30

BILLY THE KID VS. DRACULA, Original 1965 John Carradine Vampire, Horror Photo #2

Doctor Dracula Pressbook 1980 John Carradine, Don 'Red' Barry, Larry Hankin!

House of Dracula Original Lobby Card John Carradine Martha O'Driscoll Horror

Face of Marble 1946 DVD Classic Thriller Horror John Carradine Claudia Drake

Monsoon/ Bluebeard John Carradine Double Feature DVD

John Carradine: The Films by Tom Weaver New Hardcover Book 396 Pages

John Carradine sons Christopher Carradine Keith Carradine Robert C- Old Photo

Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, John Carradine and Peter Cushing Photo

Closing the Visitation

The Dispatch closes here, but the week continues. Saturday, Carradine steps off the "boulevard" and onto the screen.


 

Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Dig Site Dispatch: Invasion of the Animatrons

I used to imagine the Fake Alien Invasion scenario would make extensive use of Animatrons.

Unmanned drones with Alien Animatrons tucked inside.

Christmas Lights circling the drone signifying antigrav propulsion. 

Space Bastards shot down by farmers. 

With the fortune cookie strip printed out by the saucer's onboard printer triggered by crash alarms.

Reading: "Surprise sucker!"

But now they're e-ticket lawn items. Halloween Party Staples. Droll decor for Hollywood Costume Balls

Props for Horror Host People. SmartPhone directors of "analog horror". Out-of-focus long shot Slapped Ham renditions. 

When the Alien Archaeologists dig us up in the Year 2525, chances are they will mistake these things for us Earthlings. 

Our animatrons will populate their dig tent. 

Definitely going to derail their culture studies. 

This week's dig tent: 

Member's Mark 8.5' Pre-Lit Animatronic Alien Spooky Outdoor Halloween Decor Prop 

Spirit Halloween 6.5 Ft Martian Warrior Animatronic Mars Attacks Pre-owned w box

Home Accents Holiday 7 Ft. Animated THD 3000 Halloween Yard Decoration Motion

3 FT ANIMATED GROWLING PUMPKIN HENCHMAN HALLOWEEN ANIMATRONIC PROP

7.5 Ft Animated Monster Halloween Animatronic Prop LCD Moving Eyes Sound Outdoor

68 In. Touch Activated Animatronic Witch

Gemmy Life-Size Animated, Dancing Monster Frankenstein Halloween Animatronic

68" Animated Light-Up Butler with Raven Talking Halloween Animatronic Prop

6 FT ANIMATED WEREWOLF HALLOWEEN ANIMATRONIC PROP

Spirit Halloween 6 Ft 6 In Michael Myers Animatronic Halloween Prop 2026

Spirit Halloween 2019 It Pennywise Life-Size Animatronic Clown

7 Ft Gruesome Grounds Animated LED Guardian Of The Gourds Halloween Animatronic

VTG Telco Phantom of The Opera 24" Motionette Animated Halloween Figure WORKS

 

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Dig Site Dispatch: Boris Karloff

BORIS KARLOFF: THE GENTLE MONSTER IN A THOUSAND SHADOWS

A Dig Site Dispatch Biography for Boris Karloff Week

Boris Karloff—born William Henry Pratt in 1887—remains one of the rare figures in horror whose legacy is defined not by a single role, but by a vast, almost geological strata of work. His career is less a filmography than a sedimentary record: stage, screen, radio, television, children’s programming, anthology hosting, voice work, and even union activism. To excavate Karloff is to discover a man who never stopped working, never stopped experimenting, and never stopped surprising the public who thought they already knew him.

The Monster Who Never Stopped Moving

Karloff’s breakthrough in Frankenstein (1931) is well‑documented—his gauntness, his patience under Jack Pierce’s makeup, his instinct for pathos—but what often gets lost is how late this success arrived. He was 44, with over 80 silent films behind him, most uncredited. That long apprenticeship forged a performer who treated every job as essential. After Frankenstein, he didn’t slow down; he accelerated.

Across his lifetime, Karloff amassed over 200 film credits, dozens of stage roles, and hundreds of radio broadcasts. He worked with the stamina of a vaudevillian and the curiosity of a character actor. Christopher Lee once said Karloff possessed “a gentleness that made the monstrous humane,” and that gentleness extended to his work ethic: he simply showed up, again and again, and gave everything he had.


THE RADIO YEARS: A VOICE BUILT FOR THE DARK

If film gave Karloff his silhouette, radio gave him his soul.

From the late 1930s through the 1950s, Karloff became one of the most recognizable voices in American audio drama. His radio work is astonishing in scope:

He was equally at home in horror, melodrama, and gentle storytelling. The Flapper Press retrospective notes that Karloff’s radio persona was “a masterclass in vocal shading”—he could suggest menace, melancholy, or mischief with a single breath.

Radio also allowed him to escape the typecasting of his film career. On the air, he played:

  • weary detectives
  • doomed lovers
  • philosophical murderers
  • kindly narrators
  • and, occasionally, himself

The medium loved him because he understood the intimacy of the microphone. He didn’t perform at the audience; he whispered to them.


THE GREAT ABSENCE: ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

One of the strangest footnotes in Karloff’s career is his absence from the 1944 film adaptation of Arsenic and Old Lace.

On Broadway, Karloff originated the role of Jonathan Brewster, the homicidal brother whose botched plastic surgery leaves him looking “like Boris Karloff.” The joke only worked because Karloff himself delivered it. Audiences roared.

But when Warner Bros. adapted the play for the screen, Karloff was contractually trapped. The producers of the Broadway show refused to release him—they needed his name to keep selling tickets. So while Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, and Peter Lorre filmed the movie, Karloff stayed on stage, performing the role night after night.

The irony is exquisite:
Karloff was too valuable as Karloff to play the character who looked like Karloff.

It remains one of the great “what‑ifs” of Golden Age horror and comedy.


A CAREER OF IMPOSSIBLE RANGE

Karloff’s productivity borders on the mythic. A partial excavation reveals:

  • Stage: From Shakespeare to Broadway farce
  • Film: Universal classics, Val Lewton masterpieces, Mexican horror, British thrillers, and late‑career psychedelic oddities
  • Television: Thriller, The Veil, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Route 66
  • Children’s Entertainment: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966), where his narration became immortal
  • Radio: Hundreds of broadcasts across genres
  • Voice Work: Animation, commercials, and narration
  • Union Work: Founding member of the Screen Actors Guild

He was a man who could terrify adults at night and soothe children in the morning. A man who played monsters but lived with extraordinary kindness. A man who worked until the very end—his final films released posthumously in 1971.


THE GENTLE MONSTER

What makes Karloff endure is not just the volume of his work, but the humanity inside it. He brought dignity to roles that could have been grotesque, humor to roles that could have been stiff, and compassion to roles that could have been cruel.

He was, in every sense, a craftsman.
A laborer of the uncanny.
A gentleman of shadows.

For a dig site dispatch, he’s the perfect figure: a man whose career is a treasure trove, whose artifacts are everywhere—lobby cards, radio transcription discs, Mexican lobby books, Thriller tie‑ins, Grinch vinyl, and endless press stills.

Karloff didn’t just leave a legacy.
He left layers.


Artifacts Tent

RARE BORIS KARLOFF FRANKENSTEIN ILLUSIVE ORIGINALS BUST 3D TRIBUTE DISPLAY HUGE

 

Ciprano Studios Mad Monster Party Boris Karloff Uncle Boris Statue 9” Maquette

 

Boris Karloff as FRANKENSTEIN Monster Cine Art Collectible Bust Full Size w/COA

 

2000 SIDESHOW UNIVERSAL MONSTERS BORIS KARLOFF SON OF FRANKENSTEIN FIG ONLY

 

Bride of Frankenstein 1935 from Mobius Models

 

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind The Monster | FULL MOVIE | Horror Biography Documentary

 

Christopher Lee on Boris Karloff

 

https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/actors/boris-karloff

https://www.flapperpress.com/post/from-chills-to-children-the-radio-career-of-boris-karloff

 

Boris Karloff: The Gentle Monster | Frankenstein Documentary | Classic Monsters

 

https://martingrams.blogspot.com/2011/05/boris-karloff-lost-radio-broadcasts.html

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Karloff_performances 

 

https://nypost.com/2014/10/17/13-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-arsenic-and-old-lace/

 

HOHC #19: Discusses the back story to Boris Karloff in the 1931 Frankenstein

 

Boris Karloff in Alberta

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Dig Site Dispatch: Maria Ouspenskaya

Maria Ouspenskaya: The Gypsy Who Warned the Wolf Man

for The Dig Site Dispatch

Public Domain Image

Maria Ouspenskaya (1876–1949) remains one of classic horror’s most indelible presences—a performer whose gravity could bend a scene around her. Born in Tula, Russia, trained under Stanislavski, and later a revered acting teacher in the United States, she carried the old world with her like a mantle. Her Hollywood career began with Dodsworth (1936), earning her the first of two Academy Award nominations and making her the first Russian actress ever nominated for an Oscar. She followed with Love Affair (1939), proving she could compress entire emotional histories into a few measured syllables.

But it was in The Wolf Man (1941) that Ouspenskaya achieved cinematic immortality. As Maleva, the mournful Romani seer, she delivered the franchise’s two most enduring lines—lines that have outlived every sequel, remake, and reboot. It is she who warns, with the weight of ancient sorrow: “Whoever is bitten by a werewolf becomes a werewolf himself.” And it is she who offers the cycle’s most haunting benediction, spoken like a prayer over the doomed: “The way you walked was thorny…”

These phrases became the mythic spine of Universal’s werewolf lore, and Ouspenskaya delivered them with such conviction that they feel less like dialogue than prophecy. In both The Wolf Man and Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, she stands as the films’ moral axis—the only character who understands the curse, pities the cursed, and speaks for the dead.

Offscreen, she shaped generations of actors through her Hollywood studio, transmitting Stanislavski’s discipline into American performance culture. Her influence helped lay the groundwork for what would become the Method.

Stanislavski's Plan of Experiencing

 

Her death in 1949 ended a career defined by rigor, mystery, and a rare emotional authority. Yet her presence endures every time fog curls across a backlot forest and a doomed man hears a voice in the dark reminding him of the thorny path he walks.

Maria Ouspenskaya didn’t just appear in horror films—she haunts them still.

Items in the Dig Tent: 

Outrageous Fortune - Broadway Playbill - Dec 1943 - Mario Ouspenskaya

 

Maria Ouspenskaya Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man Actress Autograph Signed Photo

 

Charles Boyer Maria Ouspenskaya CONQUEST R1960S original photo 53242

 

Maria Ouspenskaya - Star Portrait Magnet

 

MARIA OUSPENSKAYA - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH

 

Mystery of Marie Roget Maria Montez Patric Knowles Maria Ouspenskaya 11x14 photo

 

Basil Sydney & Mary Ellis "The Taming of the Shrew" 1927 Playbill BROADWAY [Featuring Maria Ouspenskaya!]

 

WATERLOO BRIDGE ‘40 VIVIEN LEIGH IS BALLERINA WITH MARIA OUSPENSKAYA LC

 

Mystery Marie Roget Original Lobby Card Maria Montez Maria Ouspenskaya Leopard

 

Kiss in the Dark 11"x14" Lobby Card #3 David Niven Jane Wyman Maria Ouspenskaya

 

Stanislavski Acting Books Lot An Actor Prepares 1958 + Building a Character

 

Konstantin STANISLAVSKI "My Life in Art" - Rare Soviet Theater History USSR


Sources Consulted in Synthesis 

https://actingmagazine.com/2025/03/7-facts-about-maria-ouspenskaya/

https://www.riova.org/ma-ouspenskaya 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_Academy_Award_winners_and_nominees

https://grokipedia.com/page/Maria_Ouspenskaya

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

THE DIG SITE DISPATCH: Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Lanchester: A Brief Bio for a New Bride of Frankenstein Era

Elsa Sullivan Lanchester (1902–1986) remains one of cinema’s most indelible presences — a performer whose eccentricity, intelligence, and sly theatricality made her unforgettable long before she was crowned with the lightning‑streaked coiffure of The Bride of Frankenstein.

Born in Lewisham, London to fiercely unconventional socialist parents who rejected marriage on principle, Lanchester grew up in a household that treated rebellion as a birthright. She trained in dance as a child, studying briefly under Isadora Duncan in Paris before World War I forced her return to England. By her teens she was teaching dance, founding a children’s theatre, and immersing herself in the bohemian London arts scene.

In the 1920s she became a fixture of avant‑garde cabaret, co‑running the Cave of Harmony — a nightclub frequented by Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells, and James Whale. Her revues mixed bawdy music‑hall numbers with modernist theatrical experiments, and her impish features, expressive eyes, and bright, trilling voice made her a natural performer.

Her film career began in earnest in Britain, but her life changed when she met actor Charles Laughton in 1927. They married in 1929 and became one of Hollywood’s most distinctive artistic partnerships, appearing together in a dozen films. Lanchester’s turn as Anne of Cleves in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) first brought her international attention.

Whale Knew His Creature

James Whale didn’t cast Elsa Lanchester by accident; he cast her because he already knew the voltage she carried. Long before Bride of Frankenstein, he had watched her command London’s bohemian cabarets with a mix of mischief, intelligence, and eerie physical precision. She was a performer who could shift from comedy to grotesque in a single breath, a woman whose body language could tell a story without a word. Whale needed someone who could embody a creature born fully adult yet utterly newborn — curious, terrified, rejecting, radiant. Lanchester’s training in dance and mime, her avant‑garde instincts, and her refusal to behave like a conventional Hollywood ingénue made her the only choice. He knew she would understand the assignment’s strangeness, its humor, its tragedy. And she did: appearing for mere minutes, she created a figure so iconic that it eclipsed the film itself. Whale wasn’t gambling. He was calling forth a force he already recognized.

The Bride and Beyond

Though she would later joke that the Bride “dogged” her for the rest of her life, Lanchester built a remarkably varied career. She earned two Academy Award nominations for Come to the Stable (1949) and Witness for the Prosecution (1957), performed in Disney classics like Mary Poppins (1964), and became a beloved character actress across film and television. Her nightclub acts — ribald, witty, and defiantly un‑Hollywood — remained her true artistic home.

Her personal life with Laughton was complex, affectionate, and unconventional, marked by artistic collaboration and mutual independence. She wrote two autobiographies, Charles Laughton and I (1938) and Elsa Lanchester Herself (1983), both filled with candor and mischief.

Elsa Lanchester died in 1986 at age 84, but her legacy has only grown stranger and more luminous. The Bride — hissing, horrified, magnificent — remains one of cinema’s most iconic images, a creation as startling today as it was in 1935. And behind that image stands Lanchester herself: dancer, rebel, comedienne, character actress, and eternal original.

Artifacts Table 

Elsa Lanchester. Songs for a Shuttered Parlor.

Elsa Lanchester. Autographed Inscribed Photo

Elsa Lanchester "Bride of Frankenstein" Signed Iconic Photo with PSA

Elsa Lanchester Herself

6ft Animated LED Bride of Frankenstein Halloween Animatronic Home Depot NEW

Citations 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_Lanchester

http://elsalanchester.freeservers.com/main.htm

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006471/

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/17/books/the-bride-of-frankenstein.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-12-27-mn-730-story.html

Elsa Interludes 

The Yashmak Song 

Songs for a Shuttered Parlor 

Passport to Destiny In the which Elsa personally sees to the destruction of Adolf Hitler.

Blue Bottles 

Everybody Scream 


 

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

THE DIG SITE DISPATCH: Creature from the Black Lagoon


 

People think the Id Monster was in Forbidden Planet

But up from the depths of the primal unconscious surfaces the Gill Man. A Man obsessed with finding a mate.

"Even I--Lucas--have heard de tales of de Gill Mon."

There's a love triangle between Richard Denning, Richard Carlson, and Julia (a.k.a. Julie) Adams.  

But the Gill Man doesn't bother with the human chumps. He just takes his woman. Like a Hero in a Barbara Cartland fantasy. 

He fully intends to rip a bodice. But there is only a white bathing suit. 

So he carries her off to his cave for a mating ritual.

But the Gill Man is shot by supposedly civilized Human Chumps. He is left for dead.

While the exanguinated civilized Anglo Saxon Zombies, who wouldn't know life if it kissed them in the spear gun, make off with his mate. 

Never to return. (Though eventually the Creature DOES get the girl.) 

So this week's Dig is into the tumultuous waters of the Black Lagoon. 

In search of the erotic masterpiece that was vacuum packed into a letter box of simmering repression. 

Shooting Scripts

NEW CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON 1954 ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT 1992 1ST/ED 

 

1953 Creature From The Black Lagoon Original Movie Script Signed Adams Chapman

 

Creature From the Black Lagoon Script Signed- Autograph Reprints- 116 Pages

 

Publicity Photos, Lobby Cards ETC. 

Ricou Browning Creature From The Black Lagoon 11x14 Signed Certified Autograph

 

Ricou Browning Creature From The Black Lagoon 8x10 Signed Certified Autograph

 

VINTAGE - CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON Lobby Card 7 Lot - Reproduction

 

Ricou Browning Creature From The Black Lagoon 8x10 Signed Certified Autograph

 

Julie Adams

Film Creature From The Black Lagoon With Julie Adams Color 8x10 PHOTO PRINT

 

THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON KIDNAPS JULIE ADAMS CLASSIC 8X10 PHOTO

 

Actress Julie Adams Autographed 8x10 Photo Creature of the Black Lagoon Movie

 

Julie Adams Creature from the Black Lagoon Autographed 8x10 Photo Signed REPRINT

 

Toys, Action Figures, Statues, Busts ETC.

1999 Universal Monster Figure, Creature from the Black Lagoon Toy Action Figure

 

Moebius Models Creature from the black lagoon 1/8 scale Model Kit Factory Sealed

 

Creature Black Lagoon Lifesize Gillman Bust - Rare Vinyl Monster Model Classic

Monday, May 25, 2026

THE DIG SITE DISPATCH: A Dark Shadows Dig

DARKNESS has fallen upon the Lawns of Collinwood. Freshly mowed grass glistens in the moonlight. Magda Rakosi vows to continue the yard sale which will save the Collins Estate from abject bankruptcy, little knowing that the Collinwood Werewolf stalks her every move.

Darkness and night will not stop her from pitching her wares: 

A Dark Shadows Pub Sign

Diana Davila Playbill. Davila opens as Jenny in the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. For a discussion of the luminescent Davila, see Supernatural Being within this blog. The Diary of Anne Frank

Jonathan Frid. Barnabas Collins Bust. Signed 8X10 Photo featuring Collinwood and Maggie Evans. Afternoon TV Magazine 1968. Famous Monsters of Filmland. Malia Howard. Jonathan Frid: An Actor's Curious Journey

Lara Parker. Angelique. Race With the Devil. RWTD Pressbook. RWTD Lobby Card. Lara Parker Author. Dark Shadows: Angelique's Descent. Lara Parker Author. Heiress of Collinwood. Lara Parker Author. Dark Shadows: The Salem Branch.

David Selby. Lincoln's Better Angel. Foreword by David Selby, Katherine Leigh Scott & Jim Pierson, Editors. Dark Shadows Almanac. Night of Dark Shadows.

Dark Shadows Figurines

What Tarot Decks might Magda Rakosi have used?

The New Rosenwald Tarot 

The Burning Serpent Oracle 

Rare Tarot Cards Circa 1890s/1900s 

Dark Shadows Concordances

The Dark Shadows Concordance 1795  

The Dark Shadows 1840 Concordance  

The Dark Shadows Concordance 1897 Vol. 1 

The Dark Shadows Concordance 1897 Vol. 1A 

The Dark Shadows 1968 Concordance Vol. 1

The Dark Shadows 1968 Concordance Vol. 2 

The Dark Shadows Concordance 1970 Parallel Time 

More Reading Material

22 Issues of The World of Dark Shadows 

Dark Shadows Paperbacks Lot of 23 

Big Finish Audiobooks

The House of Despair 

Dreaming of the Water 

The Death Mask 

Big Finish Dark Shadows Audio Dramas 

Magda finishes her corned beef sandwich. She uses the hand of Count Petofi to draw from her Tarot Deck.

It is the Nine of Cups

Enjoy your own Dark Shadows Dig at:


 

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