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Scary Monsters Magazine

Scary Monsters is a quarterly classic monster and sci-fi print magazine that started its nearly 30-year publishing run in October 1991. A spin-off magazine, Monster Memories, also continues to be produced annually every February.

Publisher MyMovieMonsters.com of Murrieta, California, released its first issue, Scary Monsters #101, in June 2016. The current release (as of September 2020) from Editor Don A. Smeraldi and Designer Vicki M. Smeraldi is the Scary Monsters 118th Ghastly Ghouls and Spooky Specters issue. It is their 3rd Annual Halloween Scaretacular, featuring the magazine’s first glow-in-the-dark cover.

Original publisher Dennis J. Druktenis, formerly of Highwood, Illinois, edited the magazine from issue #1 through #100 and retired in late 2015. In addition to a separate title, Scary, and other special issues, Druktenis also published tribute reprints of vintage titles such as Horror Monsters , Mad Monsters, Monster Parade (a 60th anniversary reprint of Monster Parade #1 was published by Don and Vicki Smeraldi ), and World Famous Creatures and briefly resurrected classic titles Journal of Frankenstein and Castle of Frankenstein, originally published by Calvin Beck’s Gothic Castle Publishing Company.

Initially considered a fanzine, Scary Monsters has been strongly supported by “Monster Boomers” and “Monster Kids” for many years and has evolved into a professional, award-winning publication. It has been voted “Best Classic Horror Magazine” in the annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards in 2012, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Through feature articles, interviews, nostalgic monster memories submitted by readers, fiction stories, and artwork, the magazine celebrates the actors, directors, producers, writers, and others responsible for creating the classic monster and sci-fi films of the 1920s through the 1970s. Each issue features full-color wraparound covers by graphic artist Scott Jackson and usually runs 146 black-and-white pages printed on traditional pulp paper reminiscent of 1950s and 1960s publications.