Crown jewel of your horror collection

I would have said the Book of the Dead, but now that it's back in print again...

Probably my Dutch 2-disc of Dawn of the Dead with Document of the Dead and the Argento cut, or the Elite Evil Dead SCE which is still one of my favourite discs.

My chinese copy of From Beyond on dvd.

I'll go to books: My first-print, hardback editions of Cycle of the Werewolf, and ALL four of the Dark Tower books (picked up The Gunslinger for $20 on its initial release, mail ordered The Drawing of the Three when the publisher first opened for orders). Also, my signed/limited slipcase editions of Simmons' Carrion Comfort, and Prayers to Broken Stones. My chapbook editions of Banished Dreams and Going After the Rubber Chicken.

I hate you, Blofeld.

I would say my copy of 'The Asphyx', since it's really hard to find nowadays and is a damn good little film, but to be realistic I would say it's real sweet having the actual 'Document of the Dead' DVD, seperate from the 'Dawn' disc, which the 'Creetch got for me two X-mases ago.

The original out-of-print ZOMBIE DVD is a little gewl of mine. But the bigger ones would have to be my signed Freddy glove by Mr. Englund, and my signed DVD cpy of the Convent and my VHS copy of Real Killers curtousy of Mr. Mike Mendez.

Because no one relly knows about Real Killers and the fact that I actualy got to chat with Mendez makes his two autographs pretty damn cool in my book.

- Fixxxer

Comics- About a dozen original Tales From the Crypts from the 1950s.

DVDs- plenty of OOP/rare stuff, hard to keep track of the collector's market. I think I remember reading somewhere on these boards that the original They Live and Prince of Darkness discs were worth something. Also got a few early Criterions.

Videogames- all the early Resident Evil variant releases on different systems, and lots of Capcom issued merchandise. Plus, my real pride and joy: two limited edition Marui Biohazard airsoft guns (official licensed Resident Evil product from Japan)- the Desert Eagle 10" Custom, and the Barry Burton "Samurai Edge".

I also really like my Omnibus edition that has Stoker's Dracula, Shelley's Frankenstein and Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The reason I love it? Mr. King's introduction written around the time he was offering that course in horror literature in college. Insightful, wonderful introduction about the three creatures represented in the book.

Also, I love my hardback Frankenstein with LOADS of etchings by Berni Wrightson. It is a beautiful edition.

you son of a bitch...

My copy of 'Dagon', autographed by Mr. Stuart Gordon ("Best fishes"... Ha!), which I garnered courtesy of the Creature Corner.

Autographed 'SCARY TALES' script. Thanks Mike!

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Also my three tapes of 'Freddy's Nightmares' episodes that i found ay a flea market.
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I usually find some pretty good stuff at flea markets. Thats where i got my copy of "Bride of Re-animator" Unrated vhs.

Oh right, i also enjoy my Halloween limited edition vhs set. All my keys are on that keychain, and it comes everywhere with me.

Used to be some of my VHS collection. when no one i knew had much of a clue, it was nice to open their eyes to the unrated Dead Alive. Night of the Demons. and especially Guyverark hero.

Quite a few years ago I did get a great x-mas gift from a friend however. It is an autographed puzzle box from hellraiser... signed by Clive. That is quite the attention getter here at work, sitting in a glass display dome.



With a rubber tarantula on top of course.

I also have a reissue o the first Exorcist poster. Favorite movie.... favorite poster....

I've got a first edition of the Dawn Of The Dead novel by George Romero. That's pretty cool. And my framed picture of me sitting in the cinema with Ray Harryhausen and Forry Ackerman watching King Kong, plus signed programme.

That's about it, horror-wise. Most of my really cool things are sci-fi and comics related.

It's...a good film? Really? I always saw the box at my local Blockbuster..I suppose I should pick it up for a peek.

My pride and joy? For DVDs: probably my Versus SE DVD, or Evil Dead 2 Tin Can...it's awesome. Or my copy of Mallrats signed by KS himself...and it actually is a K and an S...thats his signatures.

Books? Thats easy. My signed copy of If Chins Could Kill by the Chin himself.

Hum.....well I have a Ted Raimi autograph, a picture of me with Jaume Balaguero (director of Los Sin Nombre/The Nameless) and my published (on a professional magazine)paper on the Re-Animator Millenium Edition DVD signed by Brian Yuzna.

Hmm, since we're all bragging (which is cool)...

DVDs: I'd have to say my "Blade II" SE with an enormous doodle of Reinhardt by Guillermo del Toro drawn on the cover. My "Hellraiser" tin signed by Clive and Peter Atkins is pretty cool too.

Posters: Either my "Critters" folded one-sheet which features some painted poster art mucho different than the final one-sheet OR my Famous Monsters of Filmland 1993 convention poster signed by everyone from John Agar to Anne Robinson to Ray Bradbury.

Comics: Either my "I Am Legend" series signed by Richard Matheson or a "Batman" 50th Anniversary issue signed by Stephen King - who wrote the forward for the issue.

Or...

a prototype Halloween mask of the Creeper that'll most likely never be seen by the public. It's pretty bitchin'.

Hmm, since we're all bragging (which is cool)...

DVDs: I'd have to say my "Blade II" SE with an enormous doodle of Reinhardt by Guillermo del Toro drawn on the cover. My "Hellraiser" tin signed by Clive and Peter Atkins is pretty cool too.

Posters: Either my "Critters" folded one-sheet which features some painted poster art mucho different than the final one-sheet OR my Famous Monsters of Filmland 1993 convention poster signed by everyone from John Agar to Anne Robinson to Ray Bradbury.

Comics: Either my "I Am Legend" series signed by Richard Matheson or a "Batman" 50th Anniversary issue signed by Stephen King - who wrote the forward for the issue.

Or...

a prototype Halloween mask of the Creeper that'll most likely never be seen by the public. It's pretty bitchin'.

Or...

when I finally get space for it, I'm pretty proud of my Universal Monsters chess set that I got as a present from the mighty Butane.

Only books:

(These are not only the very best books in my horror collection, but also the most difficult to replace.)

--Night Visions ed. Alan Ryan

Beautiful Dark Harvest hardcover of the first volume in this anthology series, boasting numerous beautiful, chilling pencil illustrations and fine fiction by Charles Grant, Steve Rasnic Tem and Tanith Lee. (I also had a copy of the 3rd even better and more beautifully illustrated volume, featuring great fiction from Ramsey Campbell as well as the Clive Barker novella that he went on to film as Hellraiser. Unfortunately that book vanished somewhere across the world )

--The Wine-Dark Sea and The Unsettled Dust by Robert Aickman

Paperback reprints of these great rare Aickman collections.

--The Height of the Scream by Ramsey Campbell

My old Arkham House hardcover of this outstanding collection of horror tales. Possibly the finest single-author collection of modern horror fiction, perhaps surpassed only by Campbell's Dark Companions or some of Aickman's work.

Dan, you need to post a pic of this...that is absolutely awesome.

My prized collectable is a deluxe limited edition copy of Abarat. This is the one of 50 version. Barker drew a different original character in each one in ink. It's bound in half leather and is very beautiful. I love the story too and I plan on being buried with it.

My cast signed Evil Dead poster.

Mmh... hard to say... my original french and english Return Of The Living Dead and The Company Of Wolves VHS tapes... I love the old grainy feeling...

And I'm soon getting the french version of Evil Dead I on an old and dusty VHS tape... L'Opéra de la Terreur...

Hmmm?

Books: So many...my Letters from Lovecraft volume published by August Derleth, the Lovecraft bio and "To Quebec & the Stars" (both by L. Sprague DeCamp)

All of my autographed Clive Barkers: Thief of Always, Sacrament, Books of Blood limited hardback release (from my sweet Johnny), Illustrator, plus the non autographed collection (have 'em all!)

I adore my collection of Skipp and Spectors, and my autographed copy of the Emerald Burrito of Oz (with an awesome rambling personalization by Skipp )

My JK Potter books Neurotica and Horripilations which took forever to find

Plus tons more, lots of little volumes, a particularly old copy of Alice in Wonderland, my collection the the Time Life Enchanted World Series which took me about 10 years to put together (it sounds corny being Time Life but it's one of the best series compiling an amazing amount of original folklore and artwork from around the world in over 12 volumes all on different subjects)

DVD's: My Japanese Versus spec. edition, my coveted Alien 5th disc freebie, my Hellraiser tin set, the rest I can never remember what's OOP or not, I love them all

Stuff: My Screamin' Hellraiser Lament Configuration model autographed by Doug Bradley (aww yeah), my collection of Living Dead Dolls (they own the living room), my Dawn of the Dead poster autographed by Romero, Savini, & Foree, my North American Bear Co. Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula bears (little fuckers run past $200 each on eBay and I paid $16 for both! Ha!)...

...and a highly prized leather motorcycle jacket with many sigs on it: Jeffrey Combs (!!!), Simon Bamford, Nick Vince, Chris Golden, Kane Hodder, Jhonen Vasquez, David Emgee, and Neil Gaiman who took up the entire right sleeve with a huge drawing of the Sandman and a little "sweet dreams...Neil Gaiman" sig (looove!)

Plus all the lovely photos taken over the years to commemorate my awesome luck

And Johnny Butane cuz he's so damn good lookin'!

DVD: Signed (by Bruce Campbell) copy of the two disc LE of Army of Darkness

Laserdisc: Scream Greats Vol.1

My copy of Pete Tombs 'Mondo Macabre' book signed by Jess Franco, Jean Rollin and Lina Romay.

An American Werewolf In London signed by John Landis and Rick Baker

Inferno soundtrck signed by Dario Argento

Copy of Fango signed by Asia Argento

These things make me quite proud.

Must get hold of signed AWIL...

I wonder if his sister has access to it...

All I've really got to brag about is a 1920's edition of Edger Allen Poe's prose tales. It's wicked cool.

Oh, I think I remember... the crown
of my collection is...

My pink and blue L'Au-Delà old VHS
tape! L'Au-Delà is THE BEYOND in
french...

Hey Girlcreeture, what's that, "To Quebec And The Stars"?!?!?!

Sounds like a book describing my part of the world as an alien one!

I have a signed chainsaw by Gunnar Hanson tis pretty sweet.

J

To be fair, Ryan, the Creetch is more responsible for the chess set than I, I simply suggested it would be a great present.

And yes, she is my most prized possession, I'm an ass for leaving her out.

He's an ass, but a cute one!

"To Quebec & the Stars" was, to be more accurate, edited by L. Sprague DeCamp.

It's a collection of non-fiction work by Lovecraft from as far back as HP's high scool days. Various articles from newspapers and magazines are collected in it. It also has a "travelogue" of Quebec.

Pretty rare find methinks, it's in faboo condition too (aside from some jacket wear and tear), I'm afraid to read it too much though because it's super stiff, but I go through bits every now and then, neato stuff

Well, once you decide reading it, have a thought for us weirdo Quebec residents, and picture us slowly walking through white fog at midnight, under a full moon and the vigilant and countless eyes of The Great Ancients, that is...

If I had the money I'd have me a collection that included much more than Romero's Dead Trilogy, and the three disk Susperia set. I've got others, including the Sleepaway Camps with the discontinued Red Cross cover. But for my money I'm completely happy about Romero's Dead stuff. I envy you rat bastards with the document of the dead... I've yet to see it.

I'm not the hardcore collector many of the Chewers are, but I DO have a complete set of Universal Classic Monsters Beanie-type dolls which take pride of place in my study. The set includes Frankenstein's Monster, The Wolfman, the Mummy (which bears an uncanny plush resemblance to Karloff), Dracula, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Chaney Senior), the Phantom of the Opera (Claude Rains 1941 version), the Bride of Frankenstein, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

I also have a Stuart Gordon-signed DVD of DAGON that I won from the Corner.

Yes, yes... i forgot that the red cross box on my sleepaway camp dvds was discontinued. I'll add that too then.

there is also my vhs of Cemetary man that i picked up at a flea market!

Ehm.... My Army of Darkness dvd in a tin box with an autograph by Bruce Cambell that says, "Shop Smart Shop Smart!" on it and... two drawings by Clive Barker that he made me when I met him on two different occasions... they're both weird looking masks.

Yeah.

Ah, hell. I forgot about those. I've got all 9 of the Night Visions books, #4 is signed/slipcased.

Lets see....The Blair Bytch Project, staring and signed by Linda Blair
Blade and Sixshooter action figures signed by Charles Band(met him at an actual theater screening of The Creeps in true 3-D up in Chicago)
remember those machines at the grocery stores that spit out stickers printed on a prism paper,stuff like Nascar and the like? I've got several that are horror movies like Day of The Dead, Vamp, Halloween, Jason Lives and others that I had been collecting back form the 80's (one week-only reason I wanted to go grocery shopping)
My autographed 8x10 of Linnea Quigley...TOPLESS and rubbing a demons leg.
Not as cool as some of what you other folks have got, but they bring me pleasure (especialy the Quigley photo!)

Shit, almost forgot my Advanced Readers copy of 'Abarat' that Clive signed a good month or so before the book was even released. That was a highlight of the LA Weekend of Horrors...

Probably best to get that sucker laminated.

got hell rotten!!! right now!!!

I forgot my Stealth Press The Books of Blood signed limited edition. A signed limited edition of Cabal with cool etchings of the 'Breed done by Barker on the end pages and a Lament Configuration made of oak and brass.

Damn! Once again you prove that you are one of the good ones...

God, it's really difficult to limit it to just one or 2 ( or 3 or 4... wink ) things.
Though I know what WOULD be the crown jewels in my horror collection if I hadn't been such an utter idiot & sold them back in the mid 80's.
I used to be heavily into original one sheets, lobby cards, stills & pressbooks from my favorites back in the late 70's & through various sources I'd get this stuff from The National Screen Service for free. Well, I had all the stuff from STARWARS & other films, but most importantly I had the full sets from HALLOWEEN, DAWN OF THE DEAD, ALIEN, PHANTASM, THE EXORCIST rerelease & a whole lot more. I LOVED those sets too, but like an idiot once I got into my 20's my interest in that aspect of collecting waned & I got the brilliant idea to sell it off. Of course I only got a portion of what it was worth then. Now? I could probably buy a house with what it's worth.
Oh well, live & learn.

As for the crown jewels that I DO have, I suppose I have to mention my complete collection of FANGORIA magazine first.
Then my vintige Stephen King hardcovers.
My horror paperback collection is pretty impressive too & something that's been a work in progress since I was 15 ( I just turned 41 in October ). It's got a ton of out of print goodies.
Then there's my MOVIE MANIACS, X-FILES & BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER figures. They take me back to when I was really little & had all the old Aurora monster model kits.
Then last, but not least is my DVD collection.
I really wasn't much of a collector or purchaser of films during all those years stuck in VHSland. Even though I was the first one I knew to own a VCR back in 1981, I just never got around to buying a whole lot of movies for some reason. In all I only bought a couple of dozen over the years. And I never got around to buying a laserdisc player.
4 years ago when I got my first DVD player though, I became a bigtime collector of films. I can't get enough of them infact!
Being a familyman with 4 children & not having a whole lot of money to play with, it's difficult to keep up with all that I want, but I do OK. I haven't got a massive collection by any means, but I now own about 10 times the amount of movies on DVD in 4 years of collecting than I did of VHS movies in almost 20 years of collecting.

Damn, I forgot! That's a good call man! That's something not everyone has. You can't just roll down to Best Buy and pick it up.

- Fixxxer

Johhny where did u get this?
I would serioulsy love a Universal Monsters chess set.
Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Lucky fella. Dark Harvest consistently put out beautiful-looking books of a quality we don't see much of from small presses these days. The artwork for #1 & #3 was not only beautiful but perfectly suited the quality of the fiction.