Hundreds of original sci-fi, fantasy and horror movie puns, puzzles, jokes, word scrambles, and riddles from the mad monster brain of David J. Marchant. King Kong, Godzilla, Desperate HouseZombies,... More > Gassy Mummies, Evil Alien Pods, Booger Beasts, Kinky Killer Clowns, Sexy Vampires, Mothman, Bigfoot farts, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Werewolf, and a horrible host of ghoulish gross-outs for funny-bone-munching maniacs and womaniacs. Introduction by Famous Monster Forrest J Ackerman, with illustrations by Bill Chancellor. Celebrity cameos include Ray Bradbury, Rob Zombie, Ray Harryhausen, Eminem, Elvira, Eddie Izzard, Bette Davis, Aston Kutcher and Oprah.< Less
Hundreds of original sci-fi, fantasy and horror movie puns, puzzles, jokes, word scrambles, and riddles from the mad monster brain of David J. Marchant. King Kong, Godzilla, Desperate HouseZombies,... More > Gassy Mummies, Evil Alien Pods, Booger Beasts, Kinky Killer Clowns, Sexy Vampires, Mothman, Bigfoot farts, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Werewolf, and a horrible host of ghoulish gross-outs for funny-bone-munching maniacs and womaniacs. Introduction by Famous Monster Forrest J Ackerman, with illustrations by Bill Chancellor. Celebrity cameos include Ray Bradbury, Rob Zombie, Ray Harryhausen, Eminem, Elvira, Eddie Izzard, Bette Davis, Aston Kutcher and Oprah.< Less
Forrest J Ackerman, the man who coined the term "sci-fi" in 1954, published the world's shortest science fiction story, "Cosmic Report Card: Earth," in Vertex Magazine (1973). It... More > has since been translated into eight languages. Ackerman, now 89, is known by millions as the former editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine; literary agent to sci-fi luminaries such as Ray Bradbury, L. Ron Hubbard, A.E. Van Vogt; ill-iterary agent to Ed Wood Jr; and also a super fan and collector. "Uncle Forry" is considered a mentor by notables like Stephen Spielberg, John Landis and Peter Jackson.
Says Ackerman, "At the time, it was considered that Fredric Brown had written the world’s shortest; "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…" So I penned the shortest possible story I could imagine, suggesting that aliens were grading all the planets in our solar system."< Less
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