Personal treasures - a collection of ephemera
Today I m adding three more cassettes; The Wolf Man and King Kong from the very popular Crestwood House Monster Series (see below for link) and Frozen Terror from the Crestwood House Survivor Series! As told to Ben East based on his January 1951 tale in Outdoor Life magazine, Frozen Terror recounts the true-life ordeal of Lewis [ ]
Today I m adding three more cassettes; The Wolf Man and King Kong from the very popular Crestwood House Monster Series and Frozen Terror from the Crestwood House Survivor Series! Written in the late 70s by Julian May using her pen name of Ian Thorne, each book in the Monster Series was dedicated to a different [ ]
Crestwood House Monsters Series Mad Scientists Cassette Today I m logging in with a special audio treat just in time for the holidays! I hope you ll enjoy yet another cassette in the Crestwood House Monster Series: Mad Scientists. Written in the late 70s by Julian May using her pen name of Ian Thorne, each book [ ]
Another post (just) in time for Halloween! Today s post celebrates the amazing Donald F. Glut, perhaps best known for his novelization of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. His career has seen him wear many interesting hats, including writer, musician, photographer, film historian, dinosaur expert, actor and filmmaker. He has long been celebrated by aspiring [ ]
Here s a little piece of 80s nostalgia just in time for Halloween Hey, it s never too early to start celebrating! (Click the image above or link below for the pdf) In this activity storybook adventure, Chris and Carrie who were the official kids of a famous crayon company for a brief moment in time help their friend [ ]
As a kid I purchased a set of multicolored polyhedral dice to use with my beautiful new D D box set. These Gemstones dice came with rules for several games which were based on well-known card games. Unfortunately my ex gave away my small but cherished D D collection, but I recently found the rule sheet in [ ]
Crestwood House Monsters Series Dracula Cassette 80s kids will fondly recall a great series of books from Crestwood House called the Monster Series. The series was written by Julian May using her pen name of Ian Thorne, and each book was dedicated to a different movie monster. There were a few different incarnations and similar [ ]
Snooper Troops SnoopMobile Paper Model Here s a very simple cut-and-assemble paper model I threw together for fun. It s the SnoopMobile from the classic Snooper Troops games. I used actual screen shots for the sides, and invented the top/front/back views myself. (The overhead view shown in the game wasn t compatible with the side view.) Click [ ]
Years ago the Star Wars fan club put out a fanzine called Bantha Tracks. Issue 34 came as a small glossy folder containing a little clear plastic record. Remember those small square records that came in magazines, books, and cereal boxes, and you had to put pennies on them to keep them from slipping? It s one [ ]
Jingle Disk: Just a guilty pleasure! It plays Christmas music and has animation. It can also create printed greeting cards on a real Commodore. To run it, LOAD JINGLE ,8,1 The disk requires that your printer must be off when booting the disk. (If using an emulated Commodore, virtually turn off or disconnect the emulated printer, don’t [ ]