Creatures of the Night That We Loved So Well: TV Horror Hosts of Southern California - Second Edition

This Second Edition offers so much more - More of Southern California's historic horrorhosts - Including a newly discovered undocumented horror host, over 20 full scripts, morephotos along with more newspaper press releases and articles - 550 pages of SouthernCalifornia horror host history and all in a larger format.Jeepers Creepers Theatre in 1962 ignited a love of horror hosts that was the beginning of alife-long addiction for the author and many fans. But as much as the audience loved theshows, they never knew the horror that occurred off-screen -- live adult stage performances,lawsuits and cutthroat competition. What started off as risqué and sexy by 1954 standardsended as risqué and sexy by 1984 standards. Horror hosts affected 30 years of SouthernCalifornia television history... a phenomenon that is not known by today's generation butwell remembered by the "Baby Boomers" and now chronicled for future generationsInside this Second Edition, you will find over 300 images, many never published before -studio and behind the scenes photos, TV Guide ads, movie listings by date, scans of fullscripts, interviews with the hosts and writers and identities of the hosts revealed for thefirst time. Many you've seen on other TV series and movies and didn't even know.