Little Shoppe of Horrors Issue 10/11

The cover of my somewhat battered copy of Little Shoppe of Horrors, Issue !0-11 from July 1990.  As I recall, I bought this new from 'Forbidden Planet', when I worked in London during the nineties.  Little Shoppe of Horrors was a Hammer fanzine - an extremely well-produced fanzine, with, as can be seen, professional standard covers. Each issue focuses on an individual movie, giving an in-depth analysis, interviews with key personnel, etc.  Consequently, issues were thick and packed full of fascinating detail.  I have to say that Little Shoppe of Horrors (on the basis of the two issues I own) is just about the most informative and exhaustively researched film publication I've ever come across.  As can be seen, this particular issue is focused on the 1963 Hammer film The Kiss of the Vampire, an interesting non-series vampire film originally written as a Dracula movie, Christopher Lee's unavailability dictating the change to an original, one-off vampire film.  (Lee's Dracula would eventually return Hammer in 1965's Dracula, Prince of Darkness).

In addition to the features on Kiss of the Vampire, this issue's 168 pages also include a fascinating article on Hammer's various unfilmed projects, an article covering Ray Harryhausen and Jim Danforth's stop motion animation work on One Million Years BC (1966) and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), respectively.  There's also a look at the music of Hammer films, a large number of interviews and quite a lot more.  Edited by Richard Klemenson, Little Shoppe of Horrors is still going strong and has expanded its scope beyond just Hammer films to include other classic British horror movies from the sixties and seventies.  (If you are interested, its web presence can be found here - all back issues are available for order as well as more recent editions.  here in the UK, more current issues are available via FAB Press).  I hasten to add that I have no connection with the publication, other than being a satisfied reader.  If you are interested in British horror movies, then Little Shoppe of Horrors is well worth a look.