![]() The book reworked much information previously unearthed for Castle of Frankenstein articles. ![]() ![]() In 1975, Beck wrote Heroes of the Horrors (Macmillan), illustrated biographies of the six leading horror film stars ( Lon Chaney, Sr., Lon Chaney, Jr., Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price). Edwards, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Richard Middleton, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Louis Stevenson and H.G. Chambers, Ralph Adams Cram, Charles Dickens, Amelia B. The two brought together a roster of vintage horror-fantasy tales by E.F. After a hiatus and a title change, Beck returned with the debut issue of Castle of Frankenstein in 1962.īeck's paperback anthology, The Frankenstein Reader (Ballantine Books, 1962), wasĪssembled with an editorial assist by fantasy fiction scholar Haywood P. ![]() As an experiment, Beck printed part of the run on slick paper. His main product was the magazine Castle of Frankenstein, at the time, was the only nationally distributed magazine devoted to a legitimate and serious coverage of B-movies.įollowing employment as an editor for publisher Joe Weider, Calvin Beck entered the monster magazine arena in 1959 with his one-shot Journal of Frankenstein, which had only a small circulation. Calvin Thomas Beck (1929–1989) was an American publisher who operated Gothic Castle Publishing Company. ![]()
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