Postcards From Shadowland: Huge Halloween Edition! 2013

09_metropolis_workers — Metropolis 1927

earth vs the flying saucers — Earth vs the Flying Saucers 1956

uninvited_610 — The Uninvited 1944

Bedlam — Bedlam 1946

103-MadMonster4 — The Mad Monster 1942

masque-du-demon-1960-15-g — Black Sunday 1960

Annex - Veidt, Conrad (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)_01 — The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920

Tales From the Crypt — Tales from the Crypt 1972

1941_Wolfman_img5 — The Wolf Man 1941

a NightMonster2 — Night Monster 1942

Bela Island of Lost Souls — Island of Lost Souls 1932

carnival-of-souls — Carnival of Souls 1962

Annex - Chaney Jr., Lon (Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man)_05 — Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man 1943

Annex - Chaney Sr., Lon (Hunchback of Notre Dame, The)_01 — The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939

Annex - Chaney Sr., Lon (London After Midnight)_05 — London After MidnightÂ 1927

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein — Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948

Annex - Chaney Sr., Lon (West of Zanzibar)_02 — West of Zanzibar 1928

una O'Connor — The Invisible Man 1933

Annex - Cushing, Peter (Daleks' Invasion Earth - 2150 A.D.)_02 — Daleks’ Invasion Earth -2150 A.D. (1966)

The Man from Planet X — The Man from Planet X (1951)

Annex - Karloff, Boris (Bride of Frankenstein, The)_05 2 — The Bride of Frankenstein 1935

Chaney in the unknown — The Unknown 1927

amityville_horror — The Amityville Horror 1979

Annex - Karloff, Boris (Man They Could Not Hang, The)_NRFPT_03 — The Man They Could Not Hang 1939

Corridors of Blood — Corridors of Blood 1958

Annex - Krauss, Werner (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The)_01 — The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920

Annex - Lugosi, Bela (Ape Man, The)_01 — The Ape Man 1943

Annex - Lugosi, Bela (Chandu the Magician)_01 — Chandu the Magician 1932

time-of-their-lives — The Time of Their Lives 1946

Annex - Lugosi, Bela (Ghost of Frankenstein, The)_01 — The Ghost of Frankenstein 1942

Invisible-Man — The Invisible Man 1933

Annex - Lugosi, Bela (Raven, The)_03 — The Raven 1935

Annex - Churchill, Marguerite (Dracula's Daughter)_02 — Dracula’s Daughter 1936

bloody-mama — Bloody Mama 1970

Annex - Lugosi, Bela (Son of Frankenstein)_02 — Son of Frankenstein 1939

Annex - Lugosi, Bela (White Zombie)_01 — White Zombie 1932

Annex - Marshall, Tully (Cat and the Canary, The)_01 — The Cat and the Canary 1927

Annex - Naish, J. Carrol (Dr. Renault's Secret)_NRFPT_02 — Dr. Renault’s Secret 1942

black sunday — Black Sunday 1960

Kill Baby Kill — Kill Baby Kill 1966

Annex - Price, Vincent (Abominable Dr. Phibes, The)_01 — The Abominable Dr. Phibes 1971

Bela-Dracula_04 — Dracula 1931

Annex - Price, Vincent (Dragonwyck)_01 — Dragonwyck 1946

Annex - Price, Vincent (House of Wax)_01 — House of Wax 1953

Annex - Price, Vincent (Raven, The)_01 — The Raven 1963

Dracula's+Daughter — Dracula’s Daughter 1936

Annex - Rathbone, Basil (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The)_01 — The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 1939

annex-karloffborisbrideoffrankensteinthe_03 — the Bride of Frankenstein 1935

Beauty and Beast — Beauty and the Beast 1946

shrinking man — The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957

32093_Invasion-of-the-body-Snatchers-1 — Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956

tarantula — Tarantula 1955

village-of-the-damned-original — Village of the Damned 1960

catandcarary2 — Cat and the Canary 1927

silent-night-bloody-night — Silent Night, Bloody Night 1972

Freaks wedding-feast — Freaks 1932

west-of-zanzibar — West of Zanzibar

Chaney He Who Gets Slapped — He Who Gets Slapped 1924

Family Plot Karen Black RIP — Family Plot 1976Â (rip Karen Black)

Curse-of-the-Demon-5 — Curse of the Demon 1957

Devil_Girl_From_Mars03 — Devil Girl From Mars 1954

Doctor Cyclops still — Dr Cyclops 1940

evelyn-venable-doubleWeb — Double Door 1934

rosemarys-baby-1968- — Rosemary’s Baby 1968

barbara-steele-and-vincent-price-pit-and-pendulum — Pit and the Pendulum 1961

experiment-in-terror — Experiment in Terror 1962

eyeswoaface — Eyes Without a Face 1960

demon fireball its in the trees — Curse of the Demon 1957

a behemoth PDVD_000 — The Giant Behemoth 1959

frankenstein bride Mae Clarke — The Bride of Frankenstein 1935

ghost-of-frankenstein — The Ghost of Frankenstein 1942

haunted_palace_23 — The Haunted Palace 1963

night of the demon true believers — Curse of the Demon 1957

he_who_gets_slapped — He Who Gets Slapped 1924

Hitchcock's Blackmail — Blackmail 1929

House on Haunted HIll -Nora-Mrs.Slydes — House on Haunted Hill 1959

house — House of Frankenstein 1944

images — The Haunting 1963

Night of the Living Dead — Night of the Living Dead 1968

Island of Lost Souls — Island of Lost Souls 1932

MetroÌpolis — MetroÌpolis 1927

it-came-from-beneath-the-sea — It Came From Beneath the Sea 1955

The-Crawling-Eye — The Crawling Eye 1958

itcamealien2 — It Came from Outer Space 1953

it-came-from-outer-space-07 — It Came from Outer Space 1953

Lifeboat — Lifeboat 1944

lionelatwill8 — Man Made Monster 1941

Lon Chaney in The Monster — The Monster 1925

Murnau's Faust 3 — Faust 1926

night-demon-macginnis — Curse of the Demon 1957

NightMonster1 — Night Monster 1942

Poster - Day the Earth Stood Still, The_30 — The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951

r2 d2 4The Thing-0 — The Thing from Another World 1951

The Devil Commands — The Devil Commands 1941

stepford wives — The Stepford Wives 1975

screaming-skull2 — The Screaming Skull 1958

Smoking Frankenstein friends are good — the Bride of Frankenstein 1935

Swimming with Julie — The Creature from the Black Lagoon 1954

The Black Cat Karloff and dead wife — The Black Cat 1934

The Black Cat Ulmer Karloff & Lugosi — The Black Cat 1934

fly — The Fly 1958

The Ghost Ship Lewton — The Ghost Ship 1943

The Invisible Ray — The Invisible Ray 1936

the leopard man — The Leopard Man 1943

freaks — Freaks 1932

The Man They Could Not Hang Karloff in Lab — The Man They Could Not Hang 1939

The Man They Could Not Hang — The Man They Could Not Hang 1939

The Mummy Karloff — The Mummy 1932

psycho — Psycho 1960

The Thing From Another World — The Thing from Another World 1951

The-Mummys-Ghost — The Mummy’s’ Ghost 1944

the undying monster — The Undying Monster 1942

jane_eyre- — Jane Eyre 1943

The Woman Who Came Back — The Woman Who Came Back 1945

the-amazing-colossal-man-pic-4 — the Amazing Colossal Man 1957

the-incredible-shrinking-man — The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957

the-seventh-seal- — The Seventh Seal 1957

The+Haunting — The Haunting 1963

The Devil Commands — The Devil Commands

thing-from-another-world-pic-3 — The Thing From Another World 1951

UndyingMonster+%2836%29 — The Undying Monster 1942

Unholy 3 Lon Chaney — The Unholy 3 (1925)

Vampyr — Vampyr 1932

I walk with a zombie — I Walked with a Zombie 1943

the exorcist — The Exorcist 1973

carnival-of-souls- — Carnival of Souls 1962

White Zombie — White Zombie 1932

Zita JohannIsland-of-Lost-Souls-3 — Island of Lost Souls 1932

Zounds-Herman Munster — Munster, Go Home! 1966

Special appreciation for several of the fabulous images courtesy of Dr. Macros High Quality photos!

HAVE A VERY SAFE & HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM YOUR EVERLOVIN’ MONSTERGIRL!!!!!!

Postcards From Shadowland’s Big Fat No.10

Alexandra Schmidt in Mother Kraus' jounrey to happiness mutter-krausens-fahrt-ins-gluck-schmidt — Alexandra Schmidt in ‘Mother Krause’s Journey to Happiness’ (1929)

all-about-eve-anne-baxter-bette-davis-marilyn-monroe-richard carlson-george sanders-celeste holm — Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s brilliant satire- All About Eve (1950) starring the inimitable Bette Davis as Margo Channing and Ann Baxter as the cunning Eve Harrington.

All's Quet on the Western Front — Director Lewis Milestone’s All’s Quiet on the Western Front-(1930) starring Lew Ayres

anatomy of murder scene — Otto Preminger’s riveting court room noir Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

battleship-potemkin-odessa-steps-sergei-eisenstein — Battleship Potemkin (1925) Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece about the great Russian naval mutiny.

Brute Force — Jule’s Dassin’s brutal noir masterpiece Brute Force (1947)

Cat-on-a-Hot-Tin-Roof-elizabeth-taylor-scene — Richard Brooks adaptation of Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

DameJudith:MrsDanvers — Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca 1940

janet-leigh-touch-of-evil-charlton-heston — Orson Welles’ film classic Touch of Evil (1958)

notre-dame-hunchbackLaughton — William Dieterle’s adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1939

kiss of death — Henry Hathaway’s disturbing noir classic Kiss of Death 1947

Laura — Otto Preminger’s quintessential noir Laura (1944)

Lee Remick in Experiment in Terror 1960 — Blake Edwards Experiment in Terror 1960

Earth Vs The Spider — Bert I. Gordon’s Earth Vs The Spider 1958

Dracula's Daughter — Lambert Hillyer’s understated yet powerfully erotic horror classic Dracula’s Daughter 1936

Linda darnell no way out — Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s taut and thought provoking social noir No Way Out 1950

little-caesar-edward-g-robinson — Mervyn LeRoy’s gangster odyssey Little Caesar 1931

Day the earth stood still robert wise — Robert Wise’s Science Fiction masterpiece The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

long dark hall — Reginald Beck and Anthony Bushell’s suspenseful The Long Dark Hall 1951

loretta-young-lon-chaney-laugh-clown-laugh — Herbert Brenon’s beautiful Laugh, Clown, Laugh 1928

m-peter-lorre- — Fritz Lang’s notorious psychological thriller M (1931)

Monday Nights with Oscar — Otto Preminger’s noir masterpiece about addiction The Man with the Golden Arm 1955

allison hayes Attack of the 50 foot woman — Nathan Juran’s iconic 50s campy sci-fi romp Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

marsha-hunt-actress-raw-deal-john-ireland — Anthony Mann’s noir classic Raw Deal (1948)

Mother Joan of the Angels — Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s surreal and transcendent Mother Joan of the Angels 1961

Nancy Kelly in The Bad Seed — Mervyn LeRoy’s naughty tale about a child psychopath. The Bad Seed (1956)

naked kiss2 — Samuel Fuller’s irreverent noir gem The Naked Kiss (1964)

odd+man+out+1947 — Carol Reed’s intense noir thriller Odd Man Out (1947)

Norma Desmond — Billy Wilder’s iconic film noir masterwork of grand proportions Sunset Blvd (1950)

orphee-jean-marais — Jean Cocteau’s stunning Orpheus (1950) OrphÃ©e

outofthepas — Jacques Tourneur’s hauntingly mesmerizing noir Out of the Past (1947)

Peggy Cummings Gun Crazy — Joseph E. Lewis Gun Crazy or Deadly is the Female (1950)

penny_serenade — George Steven’s sadness and joyful Penny Serenade (1941)

frankenstein — James Whale’s campy take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1931

the+black+cat — Edgar G. Ulmer’s sadistic and transgressive journey into horror The Black Cat 1934

vampyr — Carl Theodor Dreyer’s masterful vision of quiet uncanny horror Vampyr (1932)

prowler-tale — Joseph Losey’s titillating noir The Prowler ((1951)

photo-Les-Diaboliques-1954-3 — Henri-Georges Clouzot’s brilliantly chilling Les-Diaboliques-1955

Seance — Bryan Forbes’ compelling suspense thriller Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)

Seven Chances — Buster Keaton’s fantastic Seven Chances (1925)

SCARFACE (1932) — Howard Hawks and Richard Rosson’s SCARFACE (1932)

sparrows-mary-pickford — William Beaudine’s haunting Sparrows (1926)

Bride of Frankestein — James Whales even campier and finest work The Bride of Frankenstein 1935

streetcar-named-desire-leigh-brando — Elia Kazan’s volatile theme of desolation and passion based on Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

SUNSET BOULEVARD — some more divine SUNSET BOULEVARD 1950

the nymph ward shock corridor — Samuel Fuller’s edgy Shock Corridor (1963)

old-dark-house-karloff-stuart — Jame’s Whale’s The Old Dark House 1932

They-Live-By-Night — Nicholas Ray’s incredibly beautiful film noir journey They Live By Night (1948)

Theo and Eleanor — Robert Wise’s uncompromising ghost story adapted from Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting (1963)

white-heat-james-cagney-600x450 — Raoul Walsh’s iconic crime thriller White Heat (1949)

Postcards From Shadowland No.7

belle et bete — La Belle et la Bete (1946)

Caged — Caged (1950)

criss cross lancaster and De Carlo — Criss Cross (1949)

Devil Girl From Mars — Devil Girl From Mars (1954)

Les Diaboliques (1955) — Les Diaboliques (1955)

experiment in terror 1960 — Experiment in Terror (1962)

eyes without a face-franju — Les yeux sans Visage (1960)

Eyes Without A Face — Les yeux sans visage (1960)

Gloria Grahame TheCobweb — Gloria Grahame The Cobweb (1955)

I BURY THE LIVING — I Bury The Living (1958)

island of lost souls 1932 — Island of Lost Souls (1932)

kissthebloodoffmyhands — Kiss The Blood Off My Hands (1948)

lady in a cage — Lady in a Cage (1964)

Mother Joan Of The Angels — Mother Joan of The Angels (1961)

statue of diana belle et la bete — Belle et la Bete (1946)

Strait-Jacket — Strait-Jacket (1964)

Sunrise — Sunrise (1927)

The Haunting-Eleanor — The Haunting (1963)

The Queen of Spades — The Queen of Spades (1949)

Vampyr — Vampyr (1932)

world's greatest sinner — The World’s Greatest Sinner (1962)

Postcards From Shadowland No.6

49th parallel — The 49th Parallel (1949) Directed by Michael Powell and starring Leslie Howard and Laurence Olivier

Beauty and The Beast -Cocteau — La Belle et la BÃªte 1946 directed by Jean Cocteau starring Jean Marais and Josette Day

BeggarsofLife. — Beggars of Life 1928 staring Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks and Richard Arlen. Directed by William Wellman

BunnyLakeIsMissing — Bunny Lake is Missing 1965 Directed by Otto Preminger. Starring Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier, and Keir Dullea

CarnivalofSinners1943 — La Main du Diable or Carnival of Sinners 1943 Directed by Maurice Tourneur and stars Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gael and Noel Roquevert

Devil and Daniel — The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941 Directed by William Dieterle and stars Walter Houston as Old Scratch, and Edward Arnold, Jane Darwell and Simone Simon.

draculas daughter — Dracula’s Daughter 1936 directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Gloria Holden, Otto Kruger and Marguerite Churchill

Experiment in Terror — Experiment in Terror 1962 directed by Blake Edwards and starring Lee Remick, Glenn Ford, Stephanie Powers and a raspy Ross Martin as ‘Red’ Lynch

Fallen Angel — Fallen Angel 1945 Directed by Otto Preminger and starring Linda Darnell, Dana Andrews and Alice Faye

Fedra The Devils Daugter 1956 — Fedra The Devil’s Daughter 1956 Directed by Manuel Mur Oti and stars Emma Penelia, Enrique Diosdado and Vicente Parra

Joan Crawford Possessed — Joan Crawford is Possessed 1947 directed by Curtis Bernhardt, also starring Van Heflin and Raymond Massey

Les_diaboliques — Diaboliques 1955 directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and starring Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot and Paul Meurisse

Never Take Candy From A Stranger — Never Take Sweets From A Stranger 1960 Directed by Cyril Frankel and stars Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen and Felix Aylmer

Night Holds Terror — The Night Holds Terror 1955 Directed by Andrew L. Stone starring Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards and John Cassavetes

Night of The Hunter — Robert Mitchum is Harry Powell, in Night of The Hunter 1955 Directed by Charles Laughton also starring Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish

Plunder Road — Plunder Road 1957 directed by Hubert Cornfield and stars Gene Raymond, Jeanne Cooper, Wayne Morris and Elisha Cook Jr.

Seance on A Wet Afternoon — Seance On a Wet Afternoon 1964 directed by Bryan Forbes and stars Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough and Margaret Lacey

Strangers on a Train — Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers On a Train 1951 starring Farley Granger, Robert Walker and Ruth Roman

Sunset Boulevard2 — Gloria Swanson is Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard 1950 Directed by Billy Wilder and starring William Holden and Erich von Stroheim

The 7th Victim — Val Lewton’s The Seventh Victim 1943 Directed by Mark Robson and stars Kim Hunter, Tom Conway and Jean Brooks

the black cat boris and bela — Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi star in Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat 1934 inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s story.

The Killer Is Loose — The Killer Is Loose 1956 Directed by Budd Boetticher and stars Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming and Wendell Corey

The Ox Bow Incident — The Ox-Bow Incident 1943 Directed by William Wellman and stars Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes and Anthony Quinn

the Prowler — The Prowler 1951 Directed by Joseph Losey and stars Evelyn Keyes and Van Heflin

The Queen of Spades mirror — The Queen of Spades 1949 Directed by Thorold Dickinson and stars Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans and Yvonne Mitchell

The Unknown — Lon Chaney stars in Tod Browning’s The Unknown 1927 also starring Joan Crawford and Norman Kerry.

The Werewolf 1956 Ed L Cahn — Edward L. Cahn’s 1956 film The Werewolf

Usher — Jean Epstein’s The Fall of the House of Usher 1928 inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and adapted for the screen by Luis Bunuel

Vampyr — Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr (1932) Based on a story by Sheridan Le Fanu. Starring Julian West, Maurice Schutz and Rena Mandel

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