Oh, that's scarrrrry!  

The Library of Chicago Children's TV of the 60s and 70s: Monster Hosts


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The Creature c. 1970

WGN's Creature Features

The Creature's Poem

The Creature" was the disembodied (voice-over) host of the Creature Features horror movie showcase on WGN-TV, Channel 9 from September 19, 1970 through the early 1970's. The show opening, under Henry Mancini's theme from the movie Experiment in Terror (tune has same name), featured a drawing of Lon Chaney as a toothy vampire from the (apparently lost) silent film London After Midnight, while station announcer read the following poem in a scary falsetto voice:
Gruesome ghouls and grisly ghosts,
Wretched souls and cursed hosts.
Vampires bite and villains creep,
Demons scream and shadows sleep.
Blood runs cold in every man,
Fog rolls in and coffins slam.
Mortals quake and full moon rise,
Creatures haunt and terrorize.
 [The poem was read by WGN newsman Marty McNeely.]

Creature Features-related Links
bullet E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts
bullet The Horror Host Trading Post
bullet The Creature's Poems
bullet WGN's Creature Features Page.
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"Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night ...
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright."

Svengoolie

Svengoolie and Screaming Yellow Theatre

The time has come for scary things,
Like monsters, ghosts and vampire wings.
With horrible movies all drippy and drooly,
And horrible jokes like me ...
Svengoolie!
 

Svenghoolie (Jerry G. Bishop) hosted Screaming Yellow Theater on Friday nights at 10:30 on channel 32 (WFLD) from 1970 - 1973.  


Come-back later We're still under construction!
 

Svengoolie-related Links
bullet The Horror of the SVENGOOLIES!!! A robust site for fans of Svengoolie and Son of Svengoolie
bullet E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts
bullet The Horror Host Trading Post

Son of Svengoolie

Son of Svengoolie


Come-back later We're still under construction!
 

Son of Svengoolie-related Links
bullet The Horror of the SVENGOOLIES!!! A robust site for fans of Svengoolie and Son of Svengoolie
bullet E-gor's Chamber of TV Horror Hosts
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The Horror Host Trading Post

 

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Last updated: January 30, 2010