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Crestwood Monster Series. Ya know, Those Orange Monster Books You Loved As A Kid.

post #1 of 9
3/29/10 at 1:15pm
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Tell me this doesn't bring back the memories?





I've mentioned these a couple of times around here and I love seeing the giddy responses it elicits form people that grew up repeatedly checking these out from their elementary school library. I saw these mentioned in the comments of Devin's latest Movies That Never Were article and decided to start a thread where we can reminisce about these childhood favorites.

Here are some links to articles about them:

http://blog.paxholley.net/2008/10/30...monster-books/

http://www.brandedinthe80s.com/index.php?post_id=125980

http://www.brandedinthe80s.com/index.php?post_id=268064

My absolute favorites were the Godzilla and The Wolf Man books. I used to seriously get pissed if any other kid could get his hands on them before I could check them out for the week.
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post #2 of 9
3/29/10 at 1:25pm
Yes! I remember obsessively searching for "Monster" in my public library search terminal and finding the Crestwood books. Those - and the original Creepshow comic - were my library staples as a kid. Oh, and Grande Illusions, to which I'm only now learning there's a followup.
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post #3 of 9
3/29/10 at 1:34pm
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I have a beat up copy of the Creepshow comic I got back around the time the film was released.

I know someone who apparently has a few of the Crestwood books stored away. Think I might set about trying to haggle them away from them later today. From a nostalgia factor, flipping through their pages again after all these years might be enough make my head explode.
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post #4 of 9
3/29/10 at 3:05pm
The "Wolfman" one was the bomb. Hell, it may be the reason that werewolves are my favorite movie monster. A thread like this makes me want to break into the library at Old York Elementary in Branchburg, NJ and steal all my old favorites (I also like to think that the card in the back still has my name childishly scrawled on it).
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post #5 of 9
3/29/10 at 3:48pm
I used to think such childhood loves were resigned to hazy nostalgic memories, but the internet age (and, more to the point, the tireless archivists working in it) has brought so many lost gems back to us. I imagine these are high on scanners' lists, and I wouldn't be shocked to see some of them surface sooner than later.
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post #6 of 9
3/29/10 at 4:36pm
I was all about this one:



The inside was just screen shots that told the story of the film, with the dialogue printed under the stills.
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post #7 of 9
3/29/10 at 4:36pm
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There are blogs sites that have scanned the pages and posted them but I didn't link to them. A big part of the nostalgic thrill of seeing these again would be in holding them in my hands and actually flipping through them, not scrolling through scanned pages. And they're out there for sale on amazon and ebay. They aren't really that hard to find.
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post #8 of 9
3/29/10 at 4:43pm
Yep. Checked these out and re-checked them out again and again.

The picture of King Kong on the back of all of them kind of scared me.
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post #9 of 9
6/28/10 at 1:21pm
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I got this'n the other day.



Put such a huge smile on my face flipping through it. It's only know that I realize how full of mistaken information this book was.
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