Author Archive: Retro

An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

In an effort to cure his crippled daughter, doctor poses as murderous ape in order to extract the spinal fluid of his townsfolk.

A young psychiatrist interviews four inmates in a mental asylum to satisfy a requirement for employment. He hears stories about 1) the revenge of a murdered wife, 2) a tailor who makes a suit with some highly unusual qualities, 3) a woman who questions her sanity when it appears that her brother is conspiring against her, and 4) a man who builds tiny toy robots with lifelike human heads.

A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it.

A babysitting uncle tells his charges three horror stories – about a killer witch, Little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf, and “Goldi Lox” and the three bears.

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival.

A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother’s death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.

A monstrous Snowbeast is attacking people at a winter ski resort. With Bo Svenson, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Logan and Clint Walker.

After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage run by Mrs. Deere and her handyman. Taking an avid interest in her welfare is detective Calvin Carruthers. Taking almost no interest at all, is social worker Harold Mullins who is completely under Mrs. Deere’s thumb. Lots of unpleasant surprises are in store for Ellie, not the least of which is the fact that Mrs. Deere and her handyman are both brutal sadists, who run the orphanage like a concentration camp and the strong possibility that her mother’s hammer-wielding killer is now stalking her.